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20 plus years of progressively higher roles in Sales, Marketing, and General Management at the regional and national level. A strong lead by example mentality with a track record of developing innovative market driven, strategic business plans that deliver growth and profits. Specific skills include:• Strategic and tactical planning• Implementing operational excellence• Sharp business acumen• Excellent team building and interpersonal skills• Organizing and reorganizing my team to meet challenges and drive profitable growth• Communicating ideas and beliefs to internal and external customers• Assisting others to embrace change in pursuit of excellence• Aggressively emphasizing efficiency and deliverable results• An ability to create and implement plans, monitor results, adjust accordinglyPresident/General Manager:• Full P&L responsibility• Achieving sales growth in the 8%-25% range• Improving profit margins 3.5 percentage points• Providing strong leadership through vision and decisive action• Building strong teams through the hiring/firing process• Evaluating/implementing mergers & acquisitions• Developing new markets and strategic alliancesSales & Marketing:• Inside and outside sales force management• Distribution management• Developing sales territories and market channels• Creating Sales plans, Marketing plans, training programs and collateral materials• Conducting market research to determine competitive positioning, pricing levels and brand strategies• Developing commercial and technical product specifications• Customer service and application engineering managementSpecialties: Business is about people relating to people. Build rapport, be decisive, implement your best thinking and adjust accordingly.

Listed skills include Sales Operations, Manufacturing, Management, Sales, and 25 others.