Government Solutions Specialist
CurrentWhat originally started as a small portion of my workload and responsibilities many years ago has now grown into a full-time career and a full-scale Government Sales department of Johnston Industrial Supply.I oversee the management, negotiations, and customer service aspect of our Federal Supply Schedule with GSA. As well as working side by side and face to face with government customers all over the country (and world, via technology), I am in constant contact with manufacturers all over the country to bring new products to our contract and government customers. In addition to the GSA Contract, I also manage and prepare all our bids and proposals for government procurement requests and published solicitations as well as work on site with customers regularly as their main contact for their tooling needs.Over the last 13 years, through our GSA contract and building and establishing customer relationships throughout the government, I've been able to grow our government sales to average well over $1 million in revenue with increasing profit margins year over year. One of the most rewarding parts of my job, and something I'm very proud of, has been identifying ways to help the government identify and quantify cost savings in time, labor, and/or products. In addition to the great sales and profit growth, I've been able to capture and document more than $2 million in cost savings to the government including multiple annually recurring savings of more than $200,000 which will continue to add between $500,000 and $600,000 to that overall amount for the life of those programs.