Lynn Polaski, Mba Email & Phone Number

Hartford, Ct, Us

East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Us

Work along side with the President to develop and build on strategies for strong growth. Improving processes for manufacturing excellence. Communicate and provide strong leadership to help employees grow within the organization.

East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Us

Provide a high level of support for McGill's sales and operations departments. Growing the company to be positioned as the go to leader in its industry. Developed training and quality program with a team. My motto is - communicate, team work, do what it takes to get it done and create a customer for life.

East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Us

Oversee a portfolio of +500 accounts from billing to payment. Communicate with sales and customers regarding pricing or other issues. Provide cash flow analysis weekly to Head Bookkeeper. Contact customers both by phone and email with delinquent accounts to work with payments and resolve disputes.

East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Us

Ensure quality customer satisfaction while building strong trusting relationships with current and new customers. Listen to the voice of the customer. Assist with various departments to streamline processes and procedures. Develop and continually increase knowledge on products and services to benefit the customer. Create written processes for fabrication departments for products. Perform queries from data base to perform various types of analysis for sales and operations departments.

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

Oversaw company sales, managing the account and sales operations planning. Nurtured existing accounts and grew new account base in home healthcare and medical customers, mail order and e-commerce sites. • Promoted within six months from Account Executive to Sales Manager.• Built strong relationships with assigned accounts and provided sales analysis to identify product gaps to increase sales by 15%.• Coordinated logistics and compliance requirements.• Negotiated pricing and terms with customers and suppliers.• Listened and communicated with customers to assist with new product development.• Created sales and marketing strategy to prospected and acquired new clients closing sales within 60 days.• Created process improvements and procedures for customer service staff, warehouse and logistics; reducing errors by 25%.• Researched market to become subject expert on product and industry.• Managed and provided leadership and training for customer service team.• Overall increased sales by 25% exceeding overall goal by 15%.• Implemented team KPI’s, monitored and coached to achieve goals.• Built strong relationships with national accounts to increase sales by 20%.

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

Spearhead all internal and external sales, operations and logistics in startup environment. Assisted in the development of new product lines. Produced sales marketing materials and manage trade-shows.• Built strong relationships with account base of 100+ customers and increased sales annually.• Managed, engaged and led internal account managers increase sales annually to meet goals.• Built strong relationships with manufacture representatives resulting in yearly sales increase by 10%.• Analyzed sales data to determine missed sales opportunities and inventory need.• Increased revenue profitability by 15% and exceed goals by 10%.• Managed inventory expectations by reviewing customer’s sales and future orders.• Managed internal account and customer service team, as well as independent sales reps.• Maintained national accounts with yearly growth of 15%.• Coordinated and negotiated co-op opportunities to increase product sales and profitability• Communicated with overseas manufacturers• Oversaw 3PL communicating needs and requirements

Springfield, Ma, Us

Hired to coordinate real estate property maintenance for all locations; manage key partner and vendor relations; and oversee financial analysis of vendors, products and services. Reported directly to CEO. • Oversaw business processes to ensure compliance with federal compliance regulations, including OSHA and DOT.• Provided analysis of liquor store and communicated with distributor current marketing and trends.• Developed strong business relationships with clients, partners, and vendors.

Promoted to Operations Manager after serving in various positions during 14-year tenure. Managed company operating budget and inventory control. Ensured a smooth sales pipeline, account relationships and database development. Reported directly to President.• Created and implemented international sales plan.• Oversaw forecasting and trend planning. • Responsible for financial reporting and projections; presenting to CEO/President.• Coordinated logistics and managed relationship with 3rd party (3PL) warehouse.• Developed and maintained strategic alliances and partnerships to support account development and pricing structure.• Supply chain management of products being produced.• Spearheaded consumer marketing initiatives (ex. collateral, social media, website design, etc.). • Motivated and educated 80+ external manufacturer representatives.• Promoted from Marketing Assistant, Special Sales Associate, and Marketing Manager.

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