Account Manager at Stanley Security Solutions
Indianapolis, Indiana Area
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- Account Manager at Stanley Security Solutions
- Principal of my own success! at Tarak Enterprises
- Past
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- Brand Advisor at OmniSource Marketing Group
- Account Executive at Reach USA/Valpak of Indianapolis
- NAM Sales Support at Pearson Education
- Purchaser / Team Lead at AT&T(Formerly Bellsouth CellularONE)
- Education
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- Indiana Institute of Technology
- Vincennes University
- Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
- North Central HS
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Mike Tarak’s Summary
Over 15 years of combined experience in operations and sales. I have worked on the front line as Account Executive, Territory and Regional Manager as well as trained and been a mentor to new sales reps coming into the companies I have worked at.
During my career I have also provided the back-end support to sales teams in a variety of positions and responsibilities including project management, sales presentations, procurement/purchasing, inventory control and shipping & receiving. Industries I have worked within include Marketing and Advertising, Media Replication/Printing, Publishing and Wireless Telecommunications.
I recently accepted an Account Manager position with Stanley Security Solutions and hope to capitalize on my previous experiences with project management, negotiation, training/mentoring and 5-star customer service while providing guidance and support to my National Accounts.
Previous to this, I was a Promotional Consultant and MillerCoors Brand Advisor with an Indianapolis based promotional marketing company. As a MillerCoors and Corona Licensee, I worked directly with their company employed field reps, TSMs, RMs, Marketing Managers and Divisional Offices as well as their beer wholesalers. We provided them recommendations and themed marketing campaigns on promotional items, apparel, display enhancers and a wide variety of items with their logos on it that help increase consumer awareness and loyalty in the marketplace.
In addition I was the main point of contact to the MillerCoors Procurement team in Milwaukee where I handled licensing concerns, logo usage guidelines, planning and execution of our MillerCoors marketing efforts which included product selection, pricing and sourcing and product/marketing approvals.
Mike Tarak’s Specialties:
Contacts at major beverage companies, network of independent sales professionals, network of product vendors/manufacturers with both domestic and factory direct sourcing capabilities, relationship champion, and all around fun guy to work with.
Mike Tarak’s Experience
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Account Manager
Stanley Security Solutions
(Public Company; Security and Investigations industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
National Account Team (Pep Boys, Rite Aid, WaWa, J Crew, Aldo). Managing day to day needs and requests from store level and area/district management as well as LP team members concerning security products that include both internal and external locking mechanisms, safes, keys and alarms.
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Principal of my own success!
Tarak Enterprises
(Retail industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Working on establishing myself as an Independent Sales Rep with unique novelty and gift items that have NCAA, NBA and OCC licensing as well as private label product. Items include bottle openers, golf tools and more.
Targeting reps and distributors looking to add lines to their product mix as well targeting my own contacts at retailers, C-Stores, Gift Stores, Liquor Stores, Grocery Chains, Gas Stations, Truck Stops, Sporting Goods Stores and more.
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Brand Advisor
OmniSource Marketing Group
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Handles product research and pricing to achieve maximum gross profit revenues on promotional products and apparel programs presented to Miller and Corona Reps and distributor/wholesaler network across the country.
Assisted with launch of company website for Miller products and also proposed and obtained Official Retail Licensee status for our company.
Developed Miller Brand Programs that led to sales increase of 198% YOY 2006 to 2007.
Manage custom Federal Express apparel program which includes inventory levels, replenishment orders and procurement from a variety of suppliers and pricing for various Fed Ex properties/buyers as well as custom programs across the country. -
Account Executive
Reach USA/Valpak of Indianapolis
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years )
Direct Mail Advertising.
Maintained and grew account base through prospecting and new business development. Client needs assessment and product usage recommendations based on analysis. Proposal generation, AR and monthly business reviews with clients.
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NAM Sales Support
Pearson Education
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PSO; Publishing industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years )
Sales Support for Online Channel ($60M annual sales) and Independent Channel ($6M annual sales, 25 sales reps, 2000+ accounts). Daily and weekly account reporting and order monitoring/updating of online catalogs. ROI analysis, sales presentations, marketing of products online, customer service and retention maintenance.
Developed sell through database for tracking Co-op spending and ROI.
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Purchaser / Team Lead
AT&T(Formerly Bellsouth CellularONE)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years )
Ordering and management of cellular phone and accessory inventory. Team leader over the shipping and receiving department. Managed defective product return program,
Established special order program. Worked closely with vendors to establish optimal pricing / delivery windows. Managed department work-flow to insure same day turnaround of orders to company owned stores.
Implemented overstock and out-of-stock return procedure which saved the company $60,000 in first quarter of inception.
Other Positions Held
Agent Channel Store Manager
Sales & Service Associate II
Mike Tarak’s Education
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Indiana Institute of Technology
Business 2000 — 2001
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Vincennes University
AS , Business , 1992 — 1993
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Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
1991 — 1992
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North Central HS
1986 — 1990
Additional Information
Mike Tarak’s Interests:
At work, training and mentoring younger/new sales reps and networking and meeting new people be it vendor, prospect or just somebody in the business world. At home - my kids and family (1 son and 2 daughters). Coaching Youth Sports, serving on local youth league as volunteer or member of the board of directors and officating Basketball in my spare time. I enjoy music of all sorts and like to play piano/keyboards even though I can not read music.
Mike Tarak’s Groups:
LTBBL, HSEYBSL
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Stanley Security Solutions
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