Colby Evans Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Recruitment Lead for an account producing 60+ hires per month, train recruiters that transfer to my team
• August 2023 All Star - 26 Hires in August was the highest on Orion's RPO Team
• Served as Lead Recruiter through client implementation establishing process and client rapport
• Developed and executed creative recruiting strategies to source and secure top talent for a variety of positions
• Lead weekly update calls with different department leaders and pivot strategies to meet their ever-changing needs and headcount

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Worked with brokers, designers, and commercial builders to assist with space planning
• Centrically focused on growing BKM Studio, 165% increase in sales pre-pandemic
• Led a New Business Development Team and developed systems to monitor and increase our outbound call success
• Led product presentation meetings in-person and virtually to highlight Steelcase and West Elm lines
• Followed the sales cycle from inception, RFP, design submittals, manufacturing, to installation
• Brought in 85+ new accounts into Salesforce

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Direct sales for cabinet shops, commercial exhibit houses, and millwork companies
• Developed relationships with vendors to source exotic wood species for high-end consumers that set us apart from our competitors
• Managed projects valued at $10,000 to $750,000, oversaw dynamic project teams comprised of Purchasing Agents, Operations, and Laborers to ensure on-time and on-budget completion

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Direct sales to commercial flooring accounts, 205% gross sales vs PY (2016)
• Updated 100+ architectural libraries and gave product knowledge presentations to the top firms, funneled Earthwerks LVT specifications into the pipeline, 15 multi-family contracts were directly attributed to these.
• Implemented a job tracking system that fellow Account Managers adopted to easily see where our competitors stood in real-time

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Efficiently routed outbound freight in a timely manner
• Directly managed 20+ dock workers
• Amicably addressed Union issues as they arose
• Displayed exceptional customer service to approximately 50 vendors on a daily basis
• Efficiently dispatched city drivers for pickups and deliveries
• Worked with software engineers to streamline the shipping/receiving process