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results-focused sales leader specializing in providing world-class client services, driving business growth, analyzing key markets, managing large-scale accounts, negotiating in high-pressure situations, and cultivating a strong brand image with superior quality eager to offer 11+ years of experience toward maximizing an employer s bottom-line.

 

profile of qualifications

 

         top performer who excels at initiating b2b marketing plans, identifying lucrative sales opportunities, defining strategies for capturing new business, developing an existing customer base, and attaining solid leveraging in competitive territories.

         excellent communicator who conceptualizes, creates, and delivers highly effective product and services presentations.

         integral leader who seamlessly interfaces with all business representatives and clientele through to executive level.

         proficient multi-tasker who plans, prioritizes, and manages sales assignments within deadline-driven environments.

         ambitious self-starter who demonstrates superior attention-to-detail and sharp analytical abilities.

 

key areas of expertise

 

high-volume sales              team building / training                     profit center development                value-added sales

product presentations         major account management                strategic analysis / planning              cost-effective negotiations

new business growth        market / territory development         client relationship management       customer / business relations

 

career highlights

 

         achieved salesman of the year award for exceeding job expectations and handling major accounts such as xerox and kodak.

         recognized for job performance excellence via recruitment to develop a small order market niche, including performing key customer relationship building, motivating inside sales / support staff, and developing a strong and consistent profit center.

         conceptualized, designed, and launched an innovative new product division for roll out to a targeted industrial community, along with sourcing suppliers, negotiating inventory and credit arrangement, developing sales / marketing strategies, and training staff.

         successfully opened a rochester branch for a connecticut-based company with one other principal, including directing all operations, procurement, value-added product processing, distribution, sales / marketing, customer service, and administration.

 

professional synopsis

 

outside sales / account manager

 

         met and / or exceeded sales goals by aggressively developing a rochester, ny territory, including generating new business opportunities for continued marketplace dominance within multiple accounts from 200% to 300% over previous year.

 

account manager

 

         utilized broad scope of industry and professional services knowledge to develop new rochester, ny syracuse, ny and southern new york territories and increase business 100%+, along with tripling the number of customers purchasing materials.

         formed valuable relationships with a diverse clientele, including increasing business with one customer by 300%+.

 

account manager

 

         drove bottom-line results by actively prospecting for new high-volume accounts within a large-scale territory, including successfully doubling the amount of clientele doing business with the company due to superior sales performance.

 

outside account manager

 

         optimized profits by taking major accounts within territory to their highest level since branch opening, including increasing business among high-profile clientele by 100%+ and proactively developing and sustaining growth within competitive markets.

 

additional professional roles held prior to 1999

 

education

 

bachelor of science in business / marketing                                                                                     suny empire state college

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dear__________________:

 

i am currently seeking a challenging [ insert job title ] role, and am submitting my resume for your review.

 

i am excited to build a rewarding career with your company, and am confident that my broad range of professional skills can achieve your key objectives.  i can offer 11+ years of solid experience in high-volume outside / value-added sales, b2b marketing, new business growth, market / territory development, and account management, and am well-versed in all facets of product / services presentations and client relationship management.

 

to complement my background, please note that i hold a bachelor of science in business / marketing from suny empire state college.

 

most recently, as an outside sales / account manager for american stainless, i met and / or exceeded sales goals by aggressively developing a rochester, ny territory, including generating new business opportunities for continued marketplace dominance within multiple accounts from 200% to 300% over previous year.  prior to this role, as an account manager for marmon / keystone, i developed new rochester, ny, syracuse, ny and southern ny territories and increased business 100%, including increasing one customer s business by 300%+.  as this is just a sampling of my job history, please kindly refer to my enclosed resume for additional experience.

 

you will find me to be a results-focused professional who excels at improving sales performance, product awareness, and brand image.  in addition, i can plan, delegate, and manage multiple account-based tasks within deadline-driven environments while streamlining sales and business processes to increase productivity, efficiency, and quality.  for the sum of these aforementioned reasons, i believe i will prove to be an incredible asset to your team.

 

i look forward to hearing from you, and thank you in advance for your consideration.

 

sincerely,

 

 

 

michael k. stanton