Vanessa Chatelain Email & Phone Number

Gulfport, Mississippi, United States

Passionate about guiding individuals to success, I bring a unique blend of expertise in coaching, project management, sales, and marketing. With a proven track record of driving results, I specialize in helping individuals navigate career transitions, leveraging my skills in project management to ensure seamless processes.As a seasoned professional in sales and marketing, I understand the dynamics of the business world and excel in creating strategies that resonate. My commitment to empowering others in their career journey is the cornerstone of my coaching philosophy.With a focus on career development, I employ a tailored approach to address individual needs. Whether you're navigating a career change, returning to work after a break, or seeking to enhance your professional brand, I leverage my diverse skill set to guide you towards success.Key Skills:Career CoachingProject ManagementSales StrategyMarketing SolutionsPersonal BrandingLet's connect and explore how I can help you achieve your career goals and elevate your professional brand. Together, we can create a roadmap for your success.

Gulfport, Mississippi, United States

Lead and coordinate on-line education, trainings and support groups. • Manage a portfolio of 13 programs and corresponding trainings.• Increased project implementation from 69% to 100% in the first 9 months. • Consistently land 100% of projects each year by implementing processes for each program initiative. • Manage all aspects of communications with leaders and trainers.• Onboard new leaders and trainers to ensure engagement, successful program, experience and fulfillment of the NAMI MS mission.• Provide logistic management for on-going leader and teacher training. • Create marketing material and copy for programs and leader training events.• Nurture new and old relationships to ensure outreach initiatives are met with collaborative partners.• Adjust program implementation based on student engagement and results.• Conduct outreach activities and partner with sister agencies to impact the community with NAMI programs.• Stayed on budget by utilizing virtual tools to implement classes and training.

Greater New Orleans Region

Louisiana And Mississippi Gulf Coast

Assist with coordinating and staffing corporate health fairs. Communicate with client companies and invoice retainers.• Implemented processes to streamline communication and billing.• Marketed program utilization at client health fairs.

Liaison between 8 client manufacturers and Associated Wholesale Grocers • Ensure rotation of product to minimize waste.• Communicate with the warehouse staff efficiently and effectively to maintain proper inventory levels and accurate date codes.• Streamlined processes to increase workload when we acquired new clients

Lead program onboarding and bi-weekly accountability strategy sessions and as need one-on-one coaching sessions. • Facilitate workshops to identify participants’ north star, goals and milestones. • Create curriculum to fill skills gap in soft skills.• Coach entrepreneur one-on-one to develop milestones towards goals. • Connected entrepreneur with resources and subject matter experts to achieve milestone. • Facilitate peer-to-peer support sessions.

Kiln, Ms

Co-Manage staff of 88 direct reports in 8 states that encompassed 1080+ accounts for 38 clients to ensure 99% of work completion.• Trained new representatives in proper program/project execution, reporting procedures and providing on-going guidance creating a positive and productive work environment. • After analyzing market conditions, I assigned work, allocated resources and established contingency plans to ensure we meet 100% of our business targets. I immediately addressed any performance issues with representatives and included the Field Operations Manager.• Communicated with clients, account managers and representatives on a daily basis via phone, email, text and conference calls to ensure a good working relationship and excellent retail execution.• Assumed the Field Operations Manager positions in her absence to maintain productivity.

Worked in conjunction with Weight Watcher receptionists to help the members feel cared for, part of the group, motivate them to succeed and be well informed about Weight Watcher programs, promotions, products and tools.• Motivated meeting room staff to provide the Weight Watcher mission by example and training.• Facilitated the weekly group meeting discussion in order to deliver the Weight Watcher program information and meeting room topics in a way that all members are invited to participate and feel involved.• Demonstrated empathy, listened to members’ needs and recommended solutions using the Weight Watchers program and/or products to meet members’ needs and expectations.• Sold and leveraged the benefits of the Weight Watchers program, products and promotions to help members achieve their weight loss goals.• Reached out to members who have missed meetings to encourage them to recommit to their goals.• Kept detail records of meeting sales, member and meeting statistics.• Developed and enhanced skills through participation in position training and being well informed through the Weight Watchers’ learning opportunities.

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Exceeded sales objectives on platform penetration, new product lines and line extension distribution by setting goals and establishing plans to meet those goals.• Recruited, interviewed, trained, managed and assigned duties for merchandisers to implement territory reset and new brand implementation objectives.• Delivered on-going sales, new company directives and new legal environment training to peers and direct reports by conducting engaging and motivating training to ensure smooth transition.• Successfully merchandised existing brands, cut in new brands and increased distribution by developing strong relationships with retailers and stakeholders. • Collaborated with unit and district managers to establish business targets and developed strategies to achieve and exceed those targets.• Exceeded core product share objectives by 3% by anticipating issues that would have prevented product from reaching retail.• Developed strong relationships with wholesale/retail clients that helped me secure residual promotions from other territories to increase business for my territory.• Ensured I had flawless execution at retail on promotions and new product introductions by working with key stakeholders and developing processes that flowed from manufacturer to distributor to retailer and finally to the consumer.• Created quarterly presentations for national and local retail chain management to sell them on the benefits of our product in their category and educate them on new merchandising strategies.• Leveraged company programs and sold benefits of Philip Morris program compliance in distribution and retail channels to achieve 76% platform penetration from an initial 32%.• Expanded scope of territory from 99 retail outlets to over 160.• Consistently achieved 95-100% penetration of promotions, new product introductions and special initiatives in a 1-3 month window