Vice President, Head Of Sales
Head of Sales for a leading Private Villa Company specializing in the renting Villas in the Caribbean, Europe and Mexico. Key responsibilities include leading all facets of the sales organization including: day-to-day management, budgeting and forecasting, client relations, vendor relations and fiscal responsibility. • Directly manage 20 employees, reporting directly to the company CEO;• In first year, propelled sales to reforecast company to exceed budget on start date; closing a massive gap• Introduced new sales methodology and process for creating accountability inside the sales organization; established, introduced and managed staff to sales goals and targets;• Created key relationships for the launch of new destinations: Cabo & Nantucket.In October 2010, Wimco involuntarily split from its 28 year partner in its primary revenue area, St. Barthelemy. In doing so, Wimco was no longer the exclusive marketing representative for 150 Sibarth Real Estate villas. Together, the two companies held “Exclusive” relationships, meaning the only place in the world you could rent these villas was with either of our companies. When this ended, Wimco established a new company on St. Barthelemy, WimcoSBH . This company is to handle all operations for Wimco, and the island of St. Barthelemy. Responsibilities shifted from managing sales operation to;• Signed over 200 Villa Owners in St. Barthelemy for purpose of legally listing their villas for rent;• Directed sales team in Newport, RI through changing environment and inventory on a daily basis;• Managed change of having 150 Exclusive relationships to the current environment of clients being able to purchase every villa with every marketing company on the internet;• Minimized loss of renewal clientele through aggressive, personal contact whilst former partner recruited clients away from Wimco;• Assisted in all strategic negotiations and meetings relating to attempt to settle differences with former partner company;