Experience

Ibc Wonder Bread

• United States
• Facilities Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Executive

  • Jan 1982 - Present

• Coorporate Account Manager

  • Jan 1980 - Jan 2000

  · Prior to being a Corporate Account Manager I held positions of Supervisor, then Branch Manager, responsible for day-to-day operations, such as safety, payroll, hiring and terminations overseeing three supervisors, thirty salesmen and their service route areas. Also successfully maintained my own high volume sales route for ten years.· As a Corporate Account Manager I was in charge of major retail grocery stores, primary account was Stater Brothers with 165 stores, also in charge of Southern California operations for all WalMarts, Targets, Circle K stores and Top Valu/Valu Plus stores. Was in charge of overseeing bread table schematics, resets, branded and private label products and promotional activity for both, communicated with all other vendors’ grand opening schedules and reset activity, performed daily store visits, weekly store employee training and helped with private label package designs.· Able to secure regional and district manager approvals for mandatory display activity for Wonder branded label products, introduced and secured authorization and primary space on deli boards for a branded label deli line with outstanding price points. Ordered all private label and Wonder Bread products for any store grand opening, scheduled all promotional activity purchasing ads and communicated with IBC Wonder Bread sales force regarding promotional activity, grand openings and table resets, also scheduled promotional activity for private label products.· Involved in organizing Top Valu/Valu Plus annual golf tournaments from start to finish.



Inland Valley, Anaheim Hills and Moreno Valley Buick Pontiac GMC

• Sales/Fleet Intenet Manager

  • Feb 2001 - Oct 2008

  In this industry I held the following positions: Sales and Leasing Consultant, Sales Manager, Business Development Manager and Fleet/ Internet Manager. · Job entailed motivating my team to be number one on unit and gross sales, oversaw daily group and individual training sessions, assign sales team daily follow-up objectives through phone calls to sold customers, leads from manifest lists, customers from previous and same day store visits also through mailers targeting various customer scenarios. · Daily store operations, scheduling coverage on the sales floor for incoming customers, as well as service customers directly, personally greeted all customers to assure them I was available to help meet their specific needs. Also would direct the salesman in the right direction, work a salesman’s write up, between the sales desk, General Sales Manager and customer, focusing on closing the deal. My goal was to add additional gross to each deal. · Upon closing a deal I would be sure all paperwork was in proper order for the finance department, be sure the car was being prepared for delivery and my salesman had complete control of their customer throughout the entire process. · Worked all incoming Internet leads, contacting the customer and scheduling appointments, if necessary I would locate a specific vehicle from another dealership that met the consumers needs and secure its purchase being able to finalize the deal, always made sure the customer was completely satisfied, therefore securing referrals, repeat business and great Customer Satisfaction Inquiry scores.