Account Executive Marketing

Ahmed Ashfaque

**** ******* ****., #***, ***** Chase, MD 20815

adlz8e@r.postjobfree.com - 301-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Obtain a marketing and sales position where I can utilize my expertise in recruiting new clients, building client relationships, networking, promotion, advertising, communication and public relations. EXPERIENCE

Bloomingdale’s

Bloomingdale’s is a retail luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City. Sales Associate and Design Specialist, Bloomingdale’s, McLain Dec. 2018 – Mar. 2020

• Advertised fine jewelry and watches and reached $500,000 in sales, greatly exceeding expectations

• As client development specialists, added 75 new clients to Bloomingdale’s portfolio

• Opened 8-10 credit accounts each week, average employee opened 2-3 per week

• Promoted other top-of-the-line products to clients to keep them in store Ourisman Volvo

Ourisman Volvo is a Washington-based sales and distribution company for Volvo cars primarily focused on the east coast. Ourisman Volvo operates a showroom and imports cars from multiple factory locations including Sweden and North Carolina.

Sales Associate and Client Development Specialist, Ourisman Volvo, Bethesda, MD May 2018 – Dec. 2018

• Sold 8-10 cars per month as new employee

• Promoted features of cars to potential customers, negotiated and finalized sale of cars, and completed handoff of customers to finance department

• Promoted Swedish safety features of Volvo cars and German engineering of Volkswagen

• Called prospective online clients to develop Ourisman client portfolio and assisted in online sales

• Certified Volvo Salesperson

Educational Funding Company

Educational Funding Company provides world class service in martial arts billing, consulting, software and management. EFC handles all aspects of tuition billing, provides a full suite of managing and marketing techniques, connects the greatest minds in the martial arts business through conferences, and provides a web-based Student Relations Management system.

Director of Marketing, Educational Funding Company, Chevy Chase, MD April 2007 – Feb. 2018

• Receive all emails and phone calls from prospective clients; attract prospective clients to the company by highlighting company product offerings, our existing clients and their growth; set up clients who have agreed to enroll

• Foster the client relationship during the onboarding phase by developing the client’s understanding of how the company operates, developing the relationship with the client, and then transferring the client to an Account Executive

• Follow up with clients on a day to day basis to find out about their progress, what else they need, and whether they have begun using other companies; motivate them to keep an active relationship

• Invite current and prospective clients to our major regional convention, help the different clients to make connections with other clients who may give advice on how to improve their businesses

• Help clients adapt to changing technology landscape including developing their social media presence Select Achievements:

• Average 200% of monthly new client goal; enroll 8 to 10 clients per month

• Signed up 115 out of 185 prospective clients in 2013 Senior Account Executive, Educational Funding Company, Chevy Chase, MD October 1998 - March 2007

• Managed a team of three junior account executives; concentrated on east coast clients

• Trained subordinates on how to diagnose the main issues of existing clients, helping them to improve and overcome issues such as customer service, business ambience, information calls, and search engine optimization

• Helped them to improve and overcome all the small problems.

• Developed a portfolio of 150 successful clients

• Got 3 to 5 new referrals per month from my existing clients

• Promoted to be marketing director because of my success rate in recruiting prospective clients Account Executive, Educational Funding Company, Chevy Chase, MD Jan. 1994 – October 1998

• Worked under the senior account executive and had 50 clients that we would monitor on a daily basis

• Informed the senior account executive about the needs of the clients

• Gave feedback to assist in the growth of the client organization; gave advice to clients that were suffering to help connect them to other successful/larger clients to improve their business

• Promoted ideas such as how to improve their business, what type of advertisements they need to use to generate more income

• Visited local business that had similar type of clients I worked for to promote our company

• Delivered daily reports to my senior at the end of the day

• Received referrals of the new clients that were interested in joining our company; brought in 100 clients and was promoted to senior account executive after only four years Shawmut Corporation Private Limited

Shawmut Corporation is involved in project logistics and execution in construction contracting, raw materials trading, and garment exportation. The company was well known for its work on the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge located in Bangladesh.

Marketing Executive, Shawmut Corporation, Dhaka, Bangladesh May 1990 – Aug. 1992

• Managed 16-20 clients as their main direct contact

• Worked with clients to ensure they had received the information, the shipments were on time, and if there were any additional unmet needs

• Organized monthly meetings and conference calls with clients

• Gave tours of the shipping site operations to clients

• Attended business meals with clients to figure out what to improve, collect feedback, and determine if the company had anything else to offer

• Promoted the company to different buyers from countries in Southeast Asia and Europe. These companies used our company as a subcontract, we would take all the orders and all of the orders were contracted out to the foreign market.

Education

1991 – 1993 Masters in English Literature Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 1986 – 1989 Bachelors in Arts, with concentrations in Logic, Political Science, English, and Economics

Dhaka City College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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