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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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

Graduate Courses For Mpa - Public Administration

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Young Republicans