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Leigh W

The Jerome Bettis of Sales

Occupation:

Sales Manager

Location:

Canton, OH

Education Level:

Bachelor

Will Relocate:

YES

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High energy sales professional with superb interpersonal relationship and leadership skills, excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills. Persistent, creative, dependable and loyal.

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COMPANY POSITION HELD DATES WORKED

(Confidential) (Confidential) 5/2006 - Present
Tippmann Sports (Confidential) 12/2004 - 2/2006
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SCHOOL MAJOR YEAR DEGREE

Washington and Jefferson College Economics 1981 Bachelor Degree
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Highlights:

• Added Upstream Images and Mirab USA as vendors of record at Dunham’s Athleisure (10/2007).• Added Pentax and Columbia River Knife and Tool as vendors of record at backcountry.com (2007) and building volume to over $270,000 in less than 4 months.• Hire and develop an independent sales force for Upstream Images, an outdoor accessory and gift vendor. • Grew specialty dealer sales for Tippmann Sports 15% for 2005 to $14.1 million while the industry as a whole saw a 25% decrease in overall sales with innovative freight and discount programs.• Managed, trained and hired staff of 5 inside sales representatives at Tippmann Sports and interfaced with outside sales reps to maintain continuity in sales programs. • Added Spalding, Thermos, Wenzel, International EZ-UP, Austin & Halleck rifles, Bulldog Cases and Safe-T-Gard as vendors to Finish Line, Borders Books, Meijer Stores, Dunham’s, Quality Stores and AcuSport. At all of these accounts, volume reached high 5 figure amounts with Spalding and Bulldog Cases reaching $225,000 and $150,000 with Finish Line and AcuSport.Rep Agency of the Year (2000) for Brass Eagle. My territory was up over 40% for the year.

Companies I like:

Coca Cola, Apple, AT&T,

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Presently manage national accounts for two vendors and involved in brand management for new products.
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