Gregory Link Email & Phone Number

Freeport, Pennsylvania, Us

Blawnox, Pa, Us

Broussard, La, Us

• Accountable for cold calling new accounts, handling existing accounts and identifying prospective targets.• Work with operations to provide the customer correct product needs and service expectations in a timely fashion.• Ability to handle multiple customer requests while prioritizing needs and expectations.• Work with supervisor and corporate office to determine necessary pricing to meet customer requirements while also meeting company margin expectations.• Participate in monthly sales meetings with Regional Sales Manager to identify market changes and needs, while also targeting prospective customers and discussing updated corporate requirements.• Ensure customer invoices are signed and processed in a timely manner.

• Open communication with customers to provide the correct products at the necessary delivery needs.• Work with multiple vendors to source products and provide pricing and lead times that meet customer objectives. Will source a necessary part to multiple vendors to ensure the best pricing and lead times are met.• Create and follow through on purchasing, including creating purchase orders, communicating expectations on pricing and lead time with vendors, as well as, expediting once the order has been given to the supplier to ensure expected delivery times are achieved.• Calculate and determine correct pricing for quotations that meet customer expectations and keep in the market range, while ensuring company gross margin objectives are met.• Involved in taking over newly obtained machinery manufacturer. Able to increase sales from $1.9 Million US dollars to $5.2 Million US dollars in the first 2 years. This was done by ensuring weekly communication with the German based supplier, sourcing spare parts with local vendors instead of European, creating pricing menus to ease customer purchasing decisions and expediting orders to ensure delivery dates are met.• Effectively coordinated with Service Engineers and customers to ensure correct parts and other necessary equipment was available to finish rebuilds and repairs efficiently. • Proficient at prioritizing demands of multiple customers to ensure all needs are met in a timely and effective manner.• Participate in weekly meetings with our corporate office in Monchengladbach, Germany and Aachen, Germany to follow up and expedite all United States inquiries for quotation that have been sent to Germany. Also have daily communication with counterparts in Germany to convey necessary information to receive proper quotations, follow up on purchase orders and make sure correct shipping documents are provided.• Ability and daily experience reading and understanding engineered drawings and bills of materials for machinery.

Greer, Sc, Us

Working directly with numerous vendors to negotiate best pricing, select product lines, and optimize stock levels in order to satisfy customer needs and exceed company margin requirements.• Building strong customer relationships through open communication and the sharing of reliable and accurate information. This has resulted in improved sales of one product line (metal studs) from $200,000 to $800,000 in one year with one dealer while also fostering sales of our other products.• Participating in Guardian's yearly spring trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, promoting dealer attendance, actively engaging with participating vendors and generating sales for the upcoming year.• Generating weekly and quarterly sales reports that include selected product categories and key customers, and targets for new business. In addition, the reports are designed to support the company’s strategic plan for future business.• Negotiating annual rebate programs which conform to specific dealer requirements while also securing profitable business for the company. • Continuously creating and following up on purchase orders to meet customer and company expectations, while ensuring correct delivery dates are met. • Improving margins from 4% to 16% in one year for a specific product category (house wrap) while also boosting its sales by over 100%. This was accomplished by working closely with procurement, distribution, and the vendor to optimize orders, shipments, and stocking levels.