Laura Price Email & Phone Number

Durham, Gb

North East, England, United Kingdom

- Driving the sales and development of each individual account by growing and nurturing relationships with key contacts I have known for years and gaining new business and growing new relationships and sales. - Efficient time and diary management covering from the North East & West of England to Scottish boarders and down through to Blackpool, Manchester, Hull. - Growing new business through identifying strong opportunities and my tenacity to chase and prospect. - Grow YOY Sales through buy in of independent retailers. - Attend and network on several large OOH's functions & events including major trade across the UK.- Work closely with marketing and my own commercial awareness to ensure all Rainbow POS, campaigns and visual opportunities are maximised. - Work daily with Power BI for sound knowledge of figures and forecasting.

North England

My role as a Retail Sales Executive for Carte Blanche Greetings involved huge relationship management skills and business development skills across the north of England both east and west. I covered the independent retail sector including garden centres selling in predominantly MTY gifting and greeting cards. I gained customer buy in not only of the product but of myself as a sales executive across existing accounts whilst also setting up and prospecting new accounts and opportunities. Successful through strong relationship building skills, large diary management, negotiation, commitment to the brand attending large ooh events and a strong sales background.

Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

• Sourcing and training all employees for clients of NE Recruitment.• Regularly visit the clients and conduct 5 hour on site inductions along with health and safety training with the newly recruited employees. • Managing employees who work for this Client through our agency.• Liaising and communicating with employees to organise their hours of work, annual leave and other queries. • Visiting our current clients to ensure regular business as well as visiting potential new clients to build new business.

Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

Key Wins & Responsibilities• 120% achievement of new business sales to date. • Taking one store from achieving 30% availability to 100%.• Managing a call file of over 350 stores across different areas and regions including large Mults, Convenience, Indi & Discount.• Utilising relationship skills to secure the sell in of stronger brand presence across the region.• Conducting regular meetings with key influencers to discuss training opportunities and sales performance. •Training customers on the installation of new equipment.

North East England

• Managing a call file of over 45 stores.• Driving and maintaining sales of Samsung smartphones, tablets, wearables and accessories through training and sales strategy.• Managing a team of in-store promoters and Samsung brand ambassadors.• Conducting regular meetings with store managers and area managers to discuss training opportunities and sales performance.• Creating, running and managing incentivised activities and assisted sales days.• Ensuring fixture compliance is at a high standard at all times.• Reporting on competitor activity.• Troubleshooting and offering expertise to potential customers and staff members• Being the forefront of the brand

North England & Scotland

• Providing in-depth, quality training on Motorola devices across various channel partners.• Negotiating increased shop floor space for POS and displays.• Building strong, long lasting relationships with store staff, store management and area management.• Management of own call file & diary planning.• Recruitment and management of 50 brand ambassadors.

North East England

• Managing shelf availability and visibility of all listed SKU’s by working with stock management.• Implementing Head Office agreed national promotions • Achieving KPI’s through national compliance.• Build solid relationships to gain extra space for display units in store. • To plan weekly visits and call route to maximise time in the field.