Deborah Dennison Email & Phone Number

Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

Serving as Executive Administrative Secretary to the Director of the Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board and Education and Workforce Collaborative Board. The Kentucky Works Innovation Board (KWIB) serves as an advisory board to the Governor on workforce training and development issues and opportunities. The KWIB is tasked with creating a statewide plan for.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

• Led team of 8 professionals. Collaborated with executive team on annual, quarterly and monthly goals, and provided direction to team for successful day-to-day implementation. Created project plans with milestones.
• Prepared presentations and contracts in coordination with legal team and executive team members.
• Maintained contract compliance and exceeded customer expectations by holding weekly team meetings, collaborating with internal resources, negotiating contract renewals and contract pricing, building team member and.
• Created, updated and maintained organized project referral documents
• Delivered customer-specific solutions by taking information gathered from customer meetings, addressing specific needs or requirements, collaborating with cross-functional teams on developing and providing solutions.
• Analyzed and met budget targets by reviewing department budgets and collaborating with accounting personnel

Lexington, Kentucky

• Created correspondence, proposal and presentation materials as needed to acquire new business.
• Participated in strategic direction meetings with executive and senior management leadership.
• Special projects facilitation
• Improved team performance through evaluating performance metrics, conducting one-on-one coaching in sales techniques, expanding sales opportunities, and holding annual reviews, providing goals, resolving issues.
• Maintained updated list of items available on contracting opportunities; communicated product offering changes and options to customers which increased value and revenue
• Amplified operational flow of deliverables to large multi-year programs by working with executive and senior management team members to resolve process challenges or problems.

Lexington, Kentucky

• Research and follow through with customers - exceeded sales goals by 225% by finding new customers and working with them to exceed expectations. (Dept. of State customers)
• Awarded Salesperson of the Year award 2005 out of 58 sales associates for attaining the highest percentage sales growth in any territory and exhibiting positive, successful characteristics of high- achiever and leader.
• Secured lucrative contracts and new business by conducting thorough research, preparing accurate quotes with detailed delivery information, negotiating throughout process, including pricing, shipping internationally.
• Coordinated bid responses and collaborating with internal resources for proposal submittal
• Successful program fulfillment by coordinating meetings and consistent follow up with programs
• Set up and travel to various industry trade shows, representing company portfolio; identified and targeted potential new opportunities, provided follow up information, and built new relationships.

Lexington, Kentucky

As Marketing Coordinator, I was responsible for creating and facilitating responses for RFI's, RFP's and statements of qualifications for architectural and engineering opportunities. Responsibilities also included scheduling and planning business meetings, and conferences with key customers and looking for new opportunities for the company. Additional.