
Account Representative at K-12 Teachers Alliance
Greater Chicago Area

Account Representative at K-12 Teachers Alliance
Greater Chicago Area
Sales professional with experience in both business to business and business to consumer sales, utilizing prospecting to identity potential clients and building a relationship and qualifying needs to close sales. Proven and documented success in the sales process.
Experience in training and development of sales representatives through creation and implementation of training programs and ongoing training seminars.
Technical Recruitment professional with experience in all steps in the recruitment process from requirement qualification to consultant retention.
Rate Negotiation, Relationship building, Prospecting, Technical Recruitment
(Privately Held; Education Management industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
• The K-12 Teachers Alliance is a group dedicated to advancing the educational goals of K-12 teachers in the United States by partnering with Universities to bring off-campus Masters Degree programs to local areas.
• Responsible for daily intensive cold calling of superintendents, principals, union officials and other administrators to market services of the K-12 Teachers Alliance via the telephone.
• Building and maintaining relationships with superintendents, principals, union officials and other administrators
• Responsible for the full marketing life cycle of programs to educators, from cold calling / contacting superintendents, principals, union officials and other administrators to ensure marketing materials are being distributed to teachers.
• Front line representative of partner universities to the teachers, ensuring all qualifications are met.
• Guiding teachers through the entire process of applying and completing application file to successful completion of the program.
(Public Company; CITP; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 3 months)
• Management and cultivation on the front end of current clients, accounts and customers. Developing relationships with IT and HR hiring managers and staff.
• Prospecting for new business through development of sales leads given by current consultants, candidates, and hiring managers.
• Developing a pipeline of qualified candidates with in demand skill sets.
• Responsible for full life cycle management of the recruiting process from requisition analysis and sourcing to screening and submission to interviewing and placing to onboarding and starting.
• Responsible for recruitment of jobs on a nationwide basis.
• As a technical recruiter, responsible for all types of technical positions representing each level of the Software Development Life Cycle and positions within multiple product development domains, including, but not limited to: Project Managers, Business Analysts, both technical and functional, Web and software developers and programmers, including technologies such as: Java, .NET, C, C++, C#, SAP ABAP, SQL, among many more. Systems/Network Installers, Administrators and Security Professionals, Technical/Customer Support and Help Desk
(Public Company; DT; Telecommunications industry)
October 2007 — March 2008 (6 months)
• Front line representative of T-Mobile to both dealer companies and consumers.
• Responsible for sales activity at numerous national retail stores within a geographic territory.
• Develop, build and maintain relationships with dealer owners, managers and sales representatives.
• Drove T-Mobile activations, branding, customer service inquires and overall sales experience at the point of sale.
• Ensured proper display of brand merchandise and displays.
• Led market in sales per hour for month of November 2007.
(Telecommunications industry)
May 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 1 month)
• Responsible for oversight and sales management of three separate retail sales locations in a shopping complex.
• Oversight of all procurement practices, including purchasing, analysis of usage levels of products, supply chain management, acquisition of products, vendor selection and management, contract negotiation.
• Wrote, developed and implemented a streamlined sales training process which became mandatory for all new employees.
• Set quotas for individual location managers to meet and exceed.
• Oversight of small outside sales portion of business, which included cold calling into small and mid-size businesses to prospect for corporate wireless sales.
• Responsible for hiring and firing of all Location Managers and Sales Representatives.
• Managing aggregate quota, set by Managing Partner.
• Managed and developed individual location managers, ensuring each sales person and location manager was exceeding quotas and maintaining profitability, corporate policies and overall sales quality.
Bachelor of Arts , Political Science / Economics , 2003 — 2007