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Ormond Beach, Fl, Us

Florida, United States

Ormond Beach, Florida, United States

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

Ormond Beach, Fl

Chicago, Il/Ormond Beach, Fl

Program Manager combined management of internal field organization and National Retailer partners at the corporate level. Owner of National Retail business components that were needed to be successful in National Retailers including Best Buy, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Target and Apple• Components included: national sales strategies, selling skills, programs and products, communication, training, marketing and merchandising. • Subject Matter Expert and Escalation Manager for Best Buy, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Target and Apple.• Indirectly support 700 field sales personnel managing the 14,000 national retail locations• Execute changes and updates; Sprint changed pricing on average 25 times a year which meant that retailers had to react just as many times a year to new training, program and products. • Highlights include developing online programs for training, operationalizing and roll out of new programs, marketing materials and budget maintenance

Greater Chicago Area

Position focused on direct impact for the field and corporate organizations in terms of meeting the needs of the business; via market visits, training, compensation, inventory, merchandising and vetting recognition programs. Worked directly with National Retailers HQ for planning, strategy, promotions and budget. Managed the national retailers for all markets nationwide in terms of program and operational development and roll outs, grand openings, corporate communication and special events.  Retailers included but not limited to Costco, Wal-Mart, and Sam’s Club and Comp USA totaling over 3500 retail locations.  Implemented the removal of barriers and obstacles by having intense dedication and focus to the individual businesses and the accounts saw tremendous growth and productivity in terms of sales success.

Il/Wi/In

Promoted to Director in Chicago market 9 months after Sprint launched in 1999. Responsible for over 1200 points of distribution in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indianapolis including Radio Shack, Circuit City, Best Buy and other national and local 3rd party retailers. Managed sales team of 5 Sales Managers and 45 account executives as well as the team of 200 temporary employees.  Drove Radio Shack Chicago stores from 38% prior to 2002 to 51% Sprint penetration in 2003 Local 3rd party dealers (small independent retailers) grew from 5% to 11% of overall channel business in less than 6 months, 21% after 1 year and 25% after 2nd year. Reduced customer churn by 30% from January through July 2003 in the Chicago area Maintained 2 of the top ten Best Buy wireless stores in the nation, sales per door per day  #1 military kiosk in the nation for 22 consecutive months; avging over 300 activation’s /mth 61% of market sales came from the Indirect Sales channel in years 1999 – 2001.

New York/ New Jersey

Charter member of the sales team in the New York metro area. Developed strategic direction for establishing and operating the Sprint footprint for National Retail accounts including RadioShack, Circuit City, Best Buy and the Wiz as well as build out a dealer channel. • Managed team of 9 Account Executives, averaged 40% of area’s overall wireless penetration in 1997 • Successfully established and trained Sprint in over 450 points of distribution in less than 6 months• Number 1 volume Radio Shack region in the United States; Q3 & Q4 1997, over 600% increase in sales from June through December 1997 • Develop business relationship with 20+ dealers with a total of 45 stores averaging 4000 handsets monthly with a team of 6• Met 1st year target of opening 15 Specialty Communication stores (Sprint exclusive). They produced 80% of territory business averaging 5500 activation's monthly. • Dealer stores consistently produced over 25% of Indirect Channel’s business out of 5 territories.

Ormond Beach, Fl

Sales Experts is a 3rd party staffing company with many contracts for consumable goods at Costco, Safe Link, cable services etc. Successful staff acquisition was key component to meet company metrics, methods used such as job fairs, webinars, online hiring blitzes. Hiring, training and deploying strong associates into the various accounts.

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