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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

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