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Act as a main liaison between General Motors and assigned dealerships. Chevrolet, Buick,GMC • Counsel and coach assigned dealers to ensure that business priorities and goals are understood, and that action plans to achieve those goals are in place. • Support product launches by ensuring alignment and execution of plans between GM and the dealer body. • Build and maintain friendly, warm, high trust relationships and networks of business contacts while acting with integrity and a respect for others and an ability to demonstrate teamwork. • Monitor dealership personnel training to maintain 100% compliance with GM training objectives. • Assist dealers in business and inventory management, including vehicle ordering and inventory balancing. • Work with dealers to improve profitability through marketing, merchandising, and operations consulting. • Analyze dealer sales, local market, and competition to identify specific brand opportunities by using good judgment and generating and evaluating alternatives; developing and implementing effective solutions. • Coach dealer on customer satisfaction and retention opportunities and strategies. Currently rank #5 in the region on overall performance.

• Responsible for managing $2.8 million budget in revenues with expectations for advertising marketing and selling cars and trucks in conjunction with LMA groups with dealerships. Worked closely with advertising agencies to ensure proper product advertising and consistency of marketing campaigns. Participated in fiscal-year business planning.• Led, motivated, and counseled sales team, to meet or exceed sales and metric objectives and targeted to obtain sales revenues, gross profits, unit placement, while maintaining teamwork and the highest level of Dealer satisfaction.• Assisted in career planning, training and growth; recommended and facilitated appropriate development opportunities for sales representatives. • Scheduled and hosted periodic informational team and dealer meetings. • Proactively built an internal and external website to enhance wholesale and retail communication to allow a faster response to the marketplace i.e., introduce GM’s sales and services via video streaming to the GM dealer network.

Responsible for retail and wholesale training for over 1,200 GM Dealers and 400 wholesale employees.• Created and developed regional website to better communicate with employees and dealers • Developed advertising website tool for communication between dealers on upcoming creative and media e-commerce activities.• Functioned as a liaison among central office, regional field, employees and dealers to consult and assist dealers with training sales people, monitoring score completions, tracked wholesale and regional results and performance.

Implemented and coordinated all Cadillac merchandising programs with dealers throughout Florida. Managed $2.4 Million dollars budget for advertising, events, auto show events, and golf tournament.• Coordinated activities of the Cadillac Dealer Marketing Association with zone, central office and Fahlgren & Benito Advertising in Tampa. Strengthened product awareness by sponsoring the Senior Golf tour. Coordinated Cadillac Senior Golf tour company cars schedules with the players. Managed meetings with Local Marketing Groups supported marketing events on behalf of the dealers and GM.