Account Executive; Formerly Program Director/Global Sales Associate
Marketwise Associates, Inc.
Denver, Co; Rochester, Ny
Cross culture program management, market analysis, business development, and full life-cycle sales with a focus on building successful business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Promoted from Junior Associate/Project Manager to the position of Program Director/Global Sales Associate and then Account Executive concentrating on strategic planning, communications and accountability• Interfaced with customers and suppliers for the full life-cycle from proposal development through the successful delivery of a completed project ranging in value from $15,000-$5,000,000.• Facilitate Purchase Order negotiations ranging from $15,000-$4,000,000.• Conduct recurring analyses of operations, programs, and projects to track success and determine pathways for improvements; results include: -Streamlining communications through a focus on single-point contacts.• Organize cross-functional groups to implement new initiatives and manage programs with values up to $15,000,000 annually by focusing on resources, time-lines, tasks, monitoring, and control.• Administered an account with $80,000-$200,000 per month in sales based on a rolling 3-month forecast, involving materials cast in Colombia and Mexico foundries, parts machined and assembled in Mexico, and assemblies shipped and inventoried in Central New York. Assemblies were then supplied in a Just-In-Time (JIT) format to the customer.• Cultivate and execute customized presentations for groups up to 20 people.• Initiate competitive analysis for suppliers on opportunities to enter new markets.• Instrumental in drawing 3 suppliers into the supply-base for the growing Biomass Energy Market: -Increased an existing account by 300% in 2010 from previous high in 2008, and then a further 40+% increase in 2011. -Grew sales to this market from $60,000 in 2010 to $400,000 in 2011 for an existing account.-Sold a new supplier to a current customer in this market with an initial order of over $1,000,000.