Sales Manager

Kevin Tyler

214-***-**** ************@*****.***

Experienced Sales Leader

Featuring Expertise within Sales, Training and Merchandising

●Results-driven professional with experience in Sales, Marketing and Merchandising. Skilled in communications, negotiation, planning to establish model performance expectations. Able to manage change and transition. To help company’s achievement of the organization’s overall mission.

●Proactive problem-solver, communicator, critical thinker and people manager skilled in merchandising resets, enhancing compliance, sales training, and customer service.

Featured Sales Achievements

RETAIL BUSINESS MANAGER

Maintained .4% Lost Dollar Sales, company goal .6% with Wal-Mart, #4 in the country Lost Dollar Sales, #1 on the team for 47 weeks

Designed and implemented March Madness Program which lead to increase in sales .3%

Interpret IRI data to find sales trends which lead to increase sales by .6% and market share by .2%

RETAIL BUSINESS MANAGER

Point Person for Wal-Mart responsible for calling on Market Managers and giving presentations on Lost Dollar Sales and upcoming promotions.

Point Person for Sam’s Clubs responsible for execution on all programs and lead team in Pallet sales which lead to increase dollar sales 175K

Team of the Year 2009,2011

Store Audits, Price Survey, Holiday Market Visits

Experience & Other Achievements

Stevens Transport, Dallas, TX 2012 - Present

Career Counselor/Alliance Business Counselor/Training Counselor

Advocate and trainer to 120+ drivers while guiding and directing through 6 week training program

Created a fuel class for drivers giving them the right formula for buying fuel while still remaining profitable.

Group Leader for maintaining the group with the highest driver MPG average.

Assist new employees and drivers with understanding of the company policies.

Counsel drivers on career decisions In order to effectively support the team

Effectively increase driver retention 20%

Taught new Trainer Class

Campbell Soup Company, Plano, TX 2004 – 2011

Business Retail Manager

●Implement marketing plans and strategy on current and new products as well as holiday promotions for the company. Responsible for distribution and merchandising of entire line of products. Handle Shelving, price and new item introduction. Also making presentations to District Managers. Train and manage brokers. Point person for Tom Thumb, Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart. Responsible for Retail Price Survey and CPG report. Interpret data, IRI, Planograms and sell through trends. Partnered with Pepperidge Farms on Holiday displays.

●Developed Marketing programs, Hosted multiple market visits for Senior Leadership.

●Trained new hires on policies and procedures.

●Lead a Team of 12 that covered Wal-Mart and Sam’s in 3 states.

Kevin Tyler Resume – Page 2

214-***-**** ************@*****.***

Eastman Kodak, Dallas, TX 2001 – 2004

Category Sales Specialist

●Executed marketing and Sales plans within a given territory. Worked with photo managers and District managers to grow sales. Analyzed and presented marketing data from IRI data. Market share increase 4% in my Territory

●Gave presentations to Area Managers covering Oklahoma and Texas on product features.

●Territory sales 2M, increase of 6%

●Trained store personnel on photo processing and OSHA standards. Key accounts Wal-Mart, CVS and Walgreens

Fleming Foods, Lewisville, TX 2000 - 2001

Inventory Specialist

●Manage proper inventory levels by consistently delivering service and inventory levels that meet or exceed company goals.

●Responsible for the disposition of aged inventory, and the reconciliation of invoices, which resulted in annual savings of 1.8M

●Provide communication to management, customers, vendors and specific divisions on key issues such as, pricing and late deliveries.

●Ensure strategies and plans that are relevant and timely to each marketplace.

●Aggressively negotiate deals, new items and other promotional programs.

●Responsible for over 1000 SKU’s and 20M in sales. transferred from Food Marketing Group, March 2000

Food Marketing Group, Kansas City, KS 1998 - 2000

Procurement Manager

●Managed overall daily operations including direct responsibility for the selling and purchasing of consumer grocery products for accounts nationwide.

●Generated over 13M in sales and purchases annually. Communicated with senior management in developing strategies to increase sales penetration and increased company profits. Promoted in January 1999 to Garland, Texas area.

Training

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint)

Franklin Covey Business Communication

Behind the Brands

Road to Profitability

Texas Notary

Awards

Sales Representative First Quarter 1989, Third Quarter 1991

Halloween Display 1991

Christmas Display 1991

Reset Award 1993

Super Bowl Award 1994

Christmas Cookie Cracker sales 1995

Pinnacle Award 1999

Apex Awards 1998, 1999

You Make Difference 2005, 2006,2009

MPG Buster Award 2012

Employee of the Month April 2013

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