Jim Klee

Current

• Analytics Director, Marketing/Sales Productivity at Gerber Life Insurance

Past

• Director of Marketing at TWG Capital, Inc.
• Project Manager at General Electric
• Manager, Communications & Marketing at General Electric

• Outside Sales Rep. at Rockford Controls Ohio, Inc.

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Education

• Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
• Bishop Chatard High School

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Jim Klee’s Summary

James J. Klee has 18 years of progressively responsible leadership experience in sales, marketing, communications, project management, and business analytics. Specialist in leading transformational change, business intelligence, marketing strategy, and marketing communications, corporate communications, and sales leadership.

I create and implement actionable programs that achieve strategic objectives. I am a skilled communicator and consensus builder who gets things done.

• Comprehensive Marketing Communications background, including writing, editing, graphics and document design, list management, ad sales, ad placement, direct mail program management, publishing, promotions, CRM administration, web development, ROI analysis.
• Budget and revenue projections, contract negotiation and execution, supply chain management.
• Call center telephony operations management.
• Maintain an Individual Life, Accident, and Health Insurance Producer's License.

Jim Klee’s Specialties:

I maximize growth and profitability by combining business analytics with human intelligence to identify influential factors and key causal relationships, isolate problems and recognize opportunities, define specific value propositions and organizational objectives, design effective strategies, establish meaningful metrics, direct tactical teams, promote brand equity and visibility, and develop productive strategic partnerships.

Jim Klee’s Experience

• Analytics Director, Marketing/Sales Productivity

  Gerber Life Insurance

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; GE; Renewables & Environment industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Accelerating revenue growth and productivity improvement in marketing programs and contact center operations for the highest volume direct to consumer life insurance company in the United States.
  • Established and implemented aggregate productivity scorecard to measure progress on annual targets for growth in new business acquisition, profitability, and retention.
  • Ongoing assessment, improvement, and alignment of hiring and training programs, individual and group performance metrics, incentives, internal processes, and technology utilization.
  • Review and validation of data management practices and test design methodologies.

• Director of Marketing

  TWG Capital, Inc.

  (Financial Services industry)

  August 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  Directed marketing and corporate communications strategies, tactics, budgets, and return on investment projections. Also managed consumer marketing programs for agencies acquired by TWG Capital.

• Project Manager

  General Electric

  (Public Company; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  March 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  GE Project Manager throughout the planning and construction of Clarian West and Clarian North hospitals (Indianapolis metropolitan area) for which GE provided all major electrical and lighting equipment. Represented GE in weekly meetings with hospital executive staff, architects, engineers, construction managers and contractors. Authored GE’s internal and external project communications, managed the supply chain team, tracked deliverables for all GE commitments related to these projects, and served as the point of customer contact for all GE and non-GE manufacturing and engineering businesses supplying products, systems, or services to these projects as part of the GE contract.

• Manager, Communications & Marketing

  General Electric

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  June 1999 — March 2003 (3 years 10 months)

  Managed marketing, advertising, communications, Intranet development, CRM, promotions, and publishing for the GE Supply National Sales Center in Indianapolis, GE Supply's largest call center and sales office. Also managed telephony operations during my last 2 years in this role, and was project leader for the relocation of the call center in Oct/02.

• Outside Sales Rep.

  Rockford Controls Ohio, Inc.

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  July 1997 — May 1999 (1 year 11 months)

  Statewide direct sales and distribution channel sales of electrical products to public utilities, municipalities, original equipment manufacturers, industrial process facilities, hospitals, universities.

Jim Klee’s Education

• Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis

  BA , Philosophy, English Literature, Religious Studies , 1991

• Bishop Chatard High School