Used focus and fact-based selling to market cabinetry to 72 Home Depot stores in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia. Consistently grew home center sales by building and maintaining profitable and professional relationships with managers, designers, installers, distributors and consumers. Efficiently and masterfully trained new sales team employees. *Consistently grew revenue for a 5-state territory in a tough economic climate, by maintaining strong customer relationships and applying expertise in account management, brand share, channel distribution, and cross-selling. *Managed the largest geographical territory in the Southeastern District, managing a sales budget and growing a 1.2M territory into 3.4M+ by gaining significant growth in key markets. *Created and implemented successful marketing/sales training tools for major retail sales growth program.

Hired and trained all part-time representatives in a 4 -state territory. Maintained route schedules; participated in resets and led new employee training.

Maintained route itinerary schedules, followed detailed account call procedures, forecasted and transmitted replenishment and promotional products, merchandised into established plan-o-grams, solicited selling space, participated in resets, taught product knowledge training courses for customers and employees, responsible for new employee training.* Recipient of prestigious Sales Representative of the Year award

Strategic sales and marketing representative for 16 major product lines in home center stores throughout Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.

Selected and trained crews; oversaw purchasing, receiving, taking inventory and marketing, and provided superior customer service. Success led to several progressive transfers.