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Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Fortitude Adivsory helps foster local innovation, providing advisory services to lift off any bright idea to its fullest market potential.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for maintaining our long term, customer contracts, helping to develop an in-depth understanding of the customer and market within the team, new product development, multi-million-dollar sales with team leadership.• Developed key relationships with internal customer stakeholders, increasing retention and engagement• Drove New business (both locally and internationally) with key customers to increase business revenue• Main Commercial lead New Product Development initiatives, increasing our product SKU by 50%• In-market support (6-months) to help drive customer efficiency, increasing customer margins • Involved in leadership management program to drive leadership initiatives across business• Dual focus in driving new business with new customers in other market regions• Introduced new initiatives, such as reducing lead times for new product developments by 2 months• Built business reports for Board reporting purposes on Salesforce.com

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for driving new business, negotiating long-term contracts, overseeing sales activity across core regions as an emerging product, providing market analysis and business planning. • Achieved double digit sales growth through securing long-term contracts with key customers• Managed month-on-month sales profitability and forecasting across the business with Executive teams• Presented to Internal stakeholders in the business, from production staff to Board members on company sales figures and forecasting for complete visibility• Supported commercial team with marketing and business administration to increase close rates of opportunities, implementing Salesforce.com as our main CRM tool to effectively drive business• Built out the sales process mapping for new commercial members to follow• Lead the New Product Development of our 2nd highest selling product SKU

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for managing inbound opportunities, implementing go-to-market strategies and key project management for product development sales projects from R&D scale-up trials to customer production orders.• Achieved single highest sale for the company, accounting for close to half of the company’s revenue• Successfully led commercial projects from initial lead generation to product fulfilment into the market• Provided commercial support across the team functions with market analysis and customer feedback• Successfully led the international expansion of our product technology into the South Korean market, leading to strategic partnerships and alliances with the largest global ODMs. • Lead contract negotiations with large, global ODMs in South Korea, with average contract range of >$2m per annum.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for all sales inbound leads, developing go-to-market strategies and supported team with in-market events. • Accelerated discussions of new product development with our platform technology, leading to 3 successful NPD projects• Successfully created the initial technology collateral as part of our go-to-market strategy, showcasing at a wide range of conferences across NZ and Australia• Expanded customer base by 100% with successful advertising campaign, leading to high short term revenue of a total of $200k.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for maintaining storefront, ongoing stock management and assisting customers with their needs.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for maintaining storefront, ongoing stock management and assisting customers with their needs.

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