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Park City, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

• Aligned the needs of Acosta's Foodservice clients with Sysco Chicago's distribution channel to maximize sales and build relationships with our customers by utilizing relevant market trend data, new menu ideation, promotions, and labor-saving ideas.• Built relationships with the Sysco Chicago sales team and their top 100 LLO accounts.• Maintained book of business consisting of Chicago’s top street, MUC, and Non-Comm accounts. • Analyzed customer lost business reports, purchasing… Show more • Aligned the needs of Acosta's Foodservice clients with Sysco Chicago's distribution channel to maximize sales and build relationships with our customers by utilizing relevant market trend data, new menu ideation, promotions, and labor-saving ideas.• Built relationships with the Sysco Chicago sales team and their top 100 LLO accounts.• Maintained book of business consisting of Chicago’s top street, MUC, and Non-Comm accounts. • Analyzed customer lost business reports, purchasing data, and currently not buying reports to identify and create a pipeline of targets for my clients.• Worked with Sysco Chicago merchandising teams to coordinate training sessions to the 150+ Sysco Chicago Marketing Associates.• Led monthly General Sales Meetings at Sysco to emphasize my clients stocked products into distribution.• Identify and notify Sysco buying team of any promotions, shortages, recalls, and relevant market data.• Creatively came up with fresh ideas to gather sales leads, built impactful sales displays, and developed new recipes utilizing our client’s products to differentiate Acosta from other food brokers or vendors. Show less

Greater Chicago Area

• Partnered with Mohawk Flooring and Home Depot to train flooring departments on the selling process and to create and host exciting store events for the client to increase flooring measures and flooring department sales.• Responsible for a 15% comp over LY's territory measure goal.• Territory consisted of 12 Home Depot locations with 50+ flooring associates.• Developed and maintained relationships with the client and it’s commercial and consumer customers and help facilitate store… Show more • Partnered with Mohawk Flooring and Home Depot to train flooring departments on the selling process and to create and host exciting store events for the client to increase flooring measures and flooring department sales.• Responsible for a 15% comp over LY's territory measure goal.• Territory consisted of 12 Home Depot locations with 50+ flooring associates.• Developed and maintained relationships with the client and it’s commercial and consumer customers and help facilitate store RGA's and install questions. • Led Home Depot Central Region Flooring Sales training for 10 stores, 10+ attendees.• Provided one-on-one training and on-boarded two Mosaic sales representatives. • Led the weekly Midwest Region conference call by gathering sales data and reporting program performance, conducting weekly mini product trainings, and sharing client objectives.• Awarded with the Mosaic Field Rep of the Month for September, 2016. Show less

• Responsible for the hiring, coaching, and performance management of consultative sales associates and Hardlines merchandising team members.• Accountable for the sales performance of the departments which equated to over 60% of total store sales. • Analyzed P&L reports, developed and instituted plans to improve department sales performance, attachment rates, and margin.• Responsible for flawless execution of plan-o-gram changes, out of stock inventory, display model verification… Show more • Responsible for the hiring, coaching, and performance management of consultative sales associates and Hardlines merchandising team members.• Accountable for the sales performance of the departments which equated to over 60% of total store sales. • Analyzed P&L reports, developed and instituted plans to improve department sales performance, attachment rates, and margin.• Responsible for flawless execution of plan-o-gram changes, out of stock inventory, display model verification, weekly ad signage and price changes, and seasonal floor reset planning.• Facilitated group product training's and one-on-one selling process coaching. Show less

• Led sales team of 8 associates in a specialty store in a store concept at Sears. • Responsible for store sales goals as well as direct sales goals through the expansive Lands' End catalog.• Developed school uniform program that was expanded companywide. As a result became #1 Lands' End sales store in Chicago Market.• Responsible for implementing weekly, monthly, and quarterly floor resets, POG'S, and price changes.