Sales Representative

Posted on: 2007-02-21

Beverly L. Leamon 11508 Ivy Chase Lane Knoxville, TN 37934 Cell phone: 865-228-1239 [email protected] Profile: Traveling Sales Representative. As a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced sales professional, I am capable of effectively promoting products, developing customer relationships, and obtaining company sales objectives. Education: Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Geology, June 1985, University of Tennessee. Professional Achievements: • Ability to learn new product lines and effectively market and promote them through product knowledge. • Effective at building customer relations and rapport in support of sales objectives. • Successfully managed and effectively traveled large sales territory within 5 state area including Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky. • Highly organized with new products and presentation to customers. • Good track record of keeping customers aware of new products, ideas and trends. • Computer expertise and knowledge. •Managed customer profiles and sales volumes through tracking and utilization of excel spreadsheets. •Ability to communicate and effectively solve problems between customers and company personel (ex. invoicing, product tracking, delivery and shipment of goods.) Experience - Sales: 11/97 - Present: Sales Representative for Checker Distributors. Responsible for sales of fabrics, notions, crafts and gifts to customers within a 5 state area. Managed territory base by making scheduled sales calls and traveling to store fronts to demonstrate and show new products to customers. Effectively promoted and sold products to customers from knowledge of company catelog containing over 100,000 items relating to the sewing and quilting retail industry. Marketed, sold and promoted new products and trends to customers after traveling to trade shows and sales meetings and learning about company products from a variety of company vendors and distributors. Maintained and built customer relations to promote sales objectives and strenghten customer -company relationships. Other responsibilities included oversee of customer final orders, review of orders and tracking sales figures and volumes through excel spreadsheets to assure that sales objectives were met. Experience - Technical: 3/94 -11/97: Data Task Manager for IT Corporation Chemical Engineering Group. Responsible for overseeing and quality assurance of field sampling and laboratory data for environmental remediation projects. 11/91 - 3/94:Operations Supervisor for IT Corporation (ETDC). Responsible for the project management of all geotechnical operations. Oversaw client proposals, data review, quality assurance and final report writing issued to the client. 1/91 - 11/91: Team Leader for IT Corporation (IT/ORL). Served as Team Leader of the Data Review and Calculation Group at the IT/ORL. Accountable for technical support, quality assurance and review of all radiochemical data and supervision of team data group. 2/90 - 1/91: Wet Chemistry Supervisor for IT Corporation (IT/ORL). Performed regular chemist dutiest as well as supervised up to 10 employees. 3/88 - 1/90: Radiochemical Technician, IT Corporation (IT/ORL). Tested environmental samples in a radiochemical laboratiory to determine low-level radioactivity in alpha and beta emitting isotopes. 3/87 -1/88: Geotechnical Technician, Froehling & Robertson, Inc, Greenville, SC. Performed laboratory and field testing of soil and concrete materials to determine suitability as a foundation for various construction structures.