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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Transforming and accelerating this business has been my most challenging and rewarding post to date. Focusing on organizational change with sounds strategies along with process improvements has led to achieving over 40% growth. Vendor consolidation and market comp. shops have helped maximize profits by 15%. Creating our first printed catalogue as well as launching our Beta E-commerce platform has proven to be highly successful. I look forward to continuing pushing boundaries and championing change that lead to capturing significant market share.

Greater Toronto Area, On Canada

Trust, integrity, respect; all extremely important qualities that I demand from those I work with and what my clients have come to expect from me. Do I sell or serve, create long lasting partnerships...the numbers speak for itself. Over the past four years, I've grown tremendously, learning new markets and becoming a leader in my field. Being awarded the President's Club award for top sales growth in the country in 2017 was a huge milestone. 34% YOY growth was a major challenge so I went into 2018 more focused than ever. I was able to accomplish an outstanding 22% YOY growth, just a few percent shy of a back to back award which would have been a first for our Canadian arm. Having so much time left in my working life, I feel like I'm at the top of my game and can take on anything that comes my way once given the opportunity.

Head Office And Distribution Centre (Etobicoke, Ontario)

Grew a large portfolio of clients 25% in 11 months. These mostly consisted of Best Western, Hilton, Choice, Wyndham and some other of Canada’s top spa properties. Provided key program information and support to Avendra, Westmont and other hotel ownership groups. I was able to quickly forge strong relationships with key decision makers both internally and externally aiding in reaching my targets. Worked with the merchant team, providing important market information and analysis which helped to launch some new products to market. Selling on value and our core strengths, I was able to make HD Supply my clients First Choice when looking for the MRO supplies needed to maintain their facility.

Store Support Centre

My team of three is in charge of managing installation sales, processes and fostering relationships with 12 stores and multiple contracting service providers across the country. Understanding principles and workflows of project management coupled with my previous experience with construction sales, applications and distribution has made me a sought after candidate for this new centralized business unit. Reviewing measure quotations, creating them with accuracy and being able to sell a job with the correct know-how is imperative as one often has many aspects to explain to the client. Assuring our service partners are being compensated in a timely fashion is extremely important in maintaining our contractual agreements and solidifying our relationships. While this unit grows and becomes more cohesive, I continue to seek out alternative ways to increase efficiencies with our processes that will benefit the organization.

Noble Head Office And Distribution Centre (Concord, Ontario)

Recruited by Noble, I was tasked to work in a small project team that was charged with integrating and implementing a plan for a new business unit into the organization. The main focus of the new unit was to target commercial and residential property management companies. Business development (internal and external) for the project were both exciting and challenging. Procurement and marketing had two major goals: One was to create 10 new product categories with product offerings that focussed on the new target markets and the other was to develop and create a professional sales catalogue for our clients and sales teams. These two goals were particularly exciting and rewarding once they were completed. Another key component focus for the team was integrating the new business unit to support and expand the new product offerings to Noble’s impressive existing client base. I was able to develop a product listing for impulse buy items that were integrated into Noble’s vast branch network for their sales counters. This initiative proved to be very successful within certain product categories. Planning, executing, monitoring and controlling were part of our daily processes leading to the closing of this project.

Rona Ontario Support Centre (Etobicoke, Ontaro)

I was recruited to support the initiatives of a growing regional sales force that targeted residential property management companies as well as commercial and residential restoration businesses. This was one of three groups that were part of a national ICI sales force. Developing a strong rapport with store networks and sister companies were key to my success in this role. Having spent many years working at the store level, I was able to develop relationships very quickly with key stakeholder throughout the network, both regionally and nationally. Supporting the ten regional sales staff with product/pricing inquiries along with data sales analysis became part of my daily operations. As my knowledge and understanding of industry trends grew, I was able to compile substantial product analysis that eventually led to the development of two professional sales catalogues for our clients and sales force. Through my evolution in this role, I eventually was appointed as a secondary point of contact for our national and regional strategic clients as well as commercial associations we were involved with.

Rona Home And Garden (Scarborough, Ontario)

“Build sales and grow relationships”, those were my two key initiatives when asked to take on this role. With a lot of hard work and dedication, I was able to lead the team to meet and exceed the company’s objectives. Over the course of my tenure in this position, we were able to grow this sales desk to be the top performing location in Ontario with growing sales of $5million. I was able to reach a personal goal to become the top regional sales representative at the store level with sales of $1million. In spending much time over the course of my career working with many of the commercial and residential contractors for their daily needs, I was quickly able to further grow my relationships and become their preferred supplier for lumber and building materials. I developed and implemented processes for faster and easier quoting sales methods for the team leading to increased efficiency. As my knowledge and expertise of the construction industry grew, I eventually took on many large projects such as second storey additions to full custom home builds. Building and maintaining key relationships with the builder delivery fleet, EWP (engineered wood products) suppliers and our truss company played a major role in meeting and exceeding our sales targets.

Various, Ontario

Elected to work on a dedicated project team, we were tasked with learning two new computer systems (a sales order desk application and a cash POS system) and fine-tuning them for rollout to all Ontario stores. There were many hours involved in learning the new systems and even more hours were spent running countless procedural scenarios to find problem areas and “bugs” prior to the product launch. Over the course of a year, we travelled all across the province to install the new hardware and software. The next phase was meeting with store staff and managers to facilitate training and technical support for the eventual hand-over to store operations. Training was new and exciting but came with many hurdles due to the large age gaps and demographics within the store network. Never the less, we were able to overcome these hurdles by adapting our training methods in ways that suited the different learning types of the staff. I was able to develop training manuals for key sales processes that helped with the transition to the new systems. Eventually, some of these manuals were incorporated into a final master copy and became a part of the standards and procedures process guidelines for the organization.

Rona Home And Garden (Scarborough, Ontario)

*Door and window salesman*New store set up*Install sales support*Special order sales support*Lumber and building materials Replenishment*Lumber and building materials salseman

Certificate, Project Management

Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of activities in order to meet.

Ontario Secondary School Diploma