Strategic Marketing ProfessionalPassionate, goal oriented marketing leader driven to success through integrity, teamwork and innovation.Strong interpersonal communicator who approaches complex problems with drive, perseverance and energy. Able to interpret voice of customer and consumer expectations and translate them into products to satisfy needs while meeting sales and margin goals. Equally comfortable leading multi-functional teams or rolling up sleeves with ease and humility to improve speed to market. Diverse packaged goods B2B and B2C experience spans electrical wholesale, automotive aftermarket and retail channels. Over my career I have developed an advanced knowledge of Excel and Access employing the use of pivot tables, specialty functions in formulas, macros, queries and reports in Access for analyzing data quickly and efficiently.Learned InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop to create marketing collateral to improve speed of these marketing elements to the customer when Graphic Design support teams were not available. Designed and maintained websites that have been praised as the key source for information by Customer Service, Reps, Sales and customers. From leading teams to creating databases, I am hands on when required and will stop at nothing to achieve the goals at hand. Those with whom I work and interact describe me as the go to source for information. They understand if I don’t know, I will find out.Send an email to ericwiks@comcast.net to learn moreSpecialties: Team Leadership | Strategic Marketing & Planning | Cost Reduction and Control | Product Development: Traditional Waterfall, Tollgate and Agile | Creative Direction | Strategic Channel Management | Data Analysis | Budgeting | ForecastingSoftware Skills: MSOffice: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook | Adobe CC InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects | Flinto | SAP, SAP Netweaver BI, SAP SQVI | Maya