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Olathe, Ks

Senior Level Executive, responsible for creation and execution of our annual strategic plan with oversight and control in decisions made in sales, marketing, human resources, IT, logistics, manufacturing, operations, accounting and vendor/supplier relationships both domestically and internationally.· Led and directed actions to attain average annual sales growth of 18% year over year.· Implemented a new leadership team comprised of key managers in the company to build more cohesiveness from the top down and allowing for more groupthink to occur. · Successfully negotiated a complete rate reduction in shipping and logistics by forcing carriers to compete for our overall book of business by offering deep discounts on freight across the board saving the company upwards of 20% in overall annual spend. · Convinced ownership to hold regular monthly and quarterly budget, financial and strategic planning reviews to better understand the health of the business and of our action plans.· Implemented mandatory cross-training initiatives across all departments and positions resulting in time and cost saving measures discovered by team members during training sessions.

Overland Park, Kansas

-Successfully created, developed and brought to market a completely new product using my experience with international supplier management. -Created a complete branding directive and oversaw the creation and completion of the brand ThreadBuds including all logos, website creation, marketing materials, photography, and packaging. -Successfully negotiated pricing agreements and contracts with companies such as Jet.com, Walmart, Amazon and CDWG.-Maintained a strict budget and put cost control measures in place that helped us to become a profitable business in our first 5 months and have since remained profitable with no new debt taking place.-Helped grow sales for the company an average of 78% year over year for its first 3 years.

Olathe, Kansas

Senior Level Executive, led and directed an internal sales force focused on creation, development and growth of accounts across a range of customer types such as online catalog and playground rep group professionals. Responsible for all creation and successful implementation of sales support materials in areas such as website, catalog and informational literature. · Developed sales training procedures in house to create a more cohesive sales team and department resulting in confident and successful sales team members.· Created art directives and led a complete rebranding campaign for our Outdoor Furniture division resulting in a new brand being implemented across all sales and marketing avenues.· Responsible for all content creation surrounding the rebrand and saved the company roughly $45k by implementing technology and outsourcing techniques that accomplished key objectives for pennies on the dollar.· Over this period, was responsible for 65% of our total company revenue through key account creation and development and led strategy within the department resulting in average year over year growth of 25%.

Olathe, Kansas

Responsible for cultivating new business as well as maintaining and growing several existing accounts while providing a professional level of sales support with an emphasis on ease of access and prompt service.· Identified opportunities and led the development of sales initiatives adding more than 40 customers that directly resulted in 15% new growth in company revenue. · Successfully managed and developed existing client relationships growing key accounts an average of 15% year over year.

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Hired to lead sales and manage all accounts in the college division with minimum expected travel of 50% to accounts primarily focused in the East Coast, South and Midwest markets. · Managed 4 inside sales reps and a network of over 150 campus managers and the more than 750 campus representatives hired by me and our campus manager network.· Added new accounts in over 30 states that accounted for 75% of our growth from 2007 to 2008.· Successfully switched over accounts from our largest competitors resulting in our company going from the 5th largest in the industry to the 2nd largest in the industry in just 2 years. · Managed existing accounts resulting in growth of an average of 30% across those accounts.· Was the on-site Operations Director at our Freeport, Bahamas destination in 2008 and Acapulco, Mexico destination in 2009 and was responsible for the trip execution of over 15,000 students in those two years.

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