Area Manager Resume
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Objective
To join an organization where my 40+ years of food service and sales knowledge can be of benefit.
Qualifications Summary
- Excellent client relations skills
- Ability to establish and maintain relationships with people at all levels
- Good work ethic and a strong commitment to exceeding customer expectations
- Proven ability to open and retain accounts
- Development and implementation of sales procedures
- Motivating and training sales and customer service personnel
- Excellent organizational and communications skills
- Ability to plan, setup and participate in trade shows
Experience
2004– Confidential Sacramento, CA
- Travel, volunteer
1987–2004 Confidential Sacramento, CA
Area Manager
- Develop and maintain a network of distributors
- Hold sales meetings
- Train new sales personnel and show them how to present products to end users
- Introduce new products to end user customers
- Provide extensive customer relations and product marketing support
- Planning, setup and participation in food shows
Select Accomplishments
- Expanded a distribution area with six customers into the largest of five areas west of the Mississippi
- Posted continual yearly increases in sales
- First associate to introduce products into white tablecloth restaurants, delicatessens, and coffee shops
1976–1986 Confidential Sacramento, CA
National Sales Manager
- Supervise chain business sales, which accounted for 45% of the branch\'s total sales
District Sales Manager
- Hire, supervise, motivate and train a team of sales personnel
- Hold presentations, training classes
- Setup and participation in food shows
Select Accomplishments
- Secured twice the new business as the other three West Coast Branch National Sales Managers combined
- #1 in sales gross profit and collections
- As a new District Sales Manager, I started out with ten sales personnel and the lowest volume of all five of the District Managers. Within two years, had the number one district, with sales increasing from $8 million to over $20 million.
Volunteer
2010–2011 Confidential Sacramento, CA
Executive Assistant to the President
- Manager of four departments: Marketing, Human Resources, Fund Raising, Public Relations
- Involved with Purchasing and Transportation
