Vanessa Wingrad

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Profile

Excellent communication, interpersonal and Team player with strong leadership skills

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networking skills Highly influential with excellent negotiation skills

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Dedicated, self-motivated & results oriented Consultative selling skills

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Excellent planning and organization Client focused

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Proactive Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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Performs well under pressure Solution-oriented

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Analytical with superior problem solving abilities

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Education

Concordia University; B.Sc., Major in Biology Minor in Marketing September 2006 – December 2009

John Abbott College; DEC, Health Science September 2002 – May 2005

Experience

L’Oreal Canada (Lancôme), Montreal, QC January 2013 – present

Account Executive

• Manage a territory of 45 accounts with sales of over $6 million per year

• Responsible for all Sephora accounts in the greater Montreal area with mandate to grow by sales 50% (currently, only

Account Executive in Canada with YTD growth of over 50%)

• Devise strategies and create events to increase sales

• Promote Lancôme products and luxury image to increase sales as well as maintain market share and ranking

• Build trusting relationships with clients

• Train beauty advisors on selling techniques well as product knowledge

• Monitor and coach beauty advisors based on their current sales performance

• Recruit and interview potential beauty advisors and promotional consultants

• Manage different budgets allocated to my territory

• Manage team of contractual promotional consultants

• Analyze monthly financial business reviews and develop action plans in accordance

• Provide market and competition information to internal marketing teams

MULTILEARNING Group, Montreal, QC April 2010 – December 2012

Business Development Manager

• Traveled internationally (>50%) to meet with decision makers and key opinion leaders from international medical

associations

• Developed strong and trusting relationships with C-level executives and meeting/education managers

• Closed highest grossing client with annual revenue generating over $60K

• Assisted in rebranding of the company, branded, devised marketing strategies and created website for new service:

www.multieposter.com

• Responsible for selling line of educational services to new and existing clients

• Managed over 40% of current accounts

• Supervised production, coordinated and successfully implemented over 15 online CHE/CME courses/programs (accredited

and non-accredited educational webcasts)

• Established and managed production timelines, due dates and budgets

Acted as liaison and key negotiator between internal departmental teams and external clients

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Frequent travels (over 50% of time) to attend Medical Congresses and events worldwide

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Create competitive marketing strategies and communications

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Quality assurance/control (QA)

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Videotron Ltée, Pointe Claire, QC August 2007 – May 2010

Sales representative, Part-time

• Acquired new and retained clients by evaluating their telecommunication needs and consistently offering competitive

packages for range of different services including cable, internet, home and mobile phone service

• Exceeded monthly quota by a minimum of 10%

• Received award for achieving most sales per hour

• Assisted in training new employees

Related Skills

Excellent knowledge of Mac OS, Windows OS and Microsoft Suite

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Basic knowledge of HTML and Wordpress

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Presentation skills

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Extracurricular Activities and Interests

Mentored underprivileged and troubled youth with Agence Ometz

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Visited seniors with dementia weekly at the Veterans hospital

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Participated in numerous fundraising activities to provide to less fortunate Montreal families during the Holidays

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Traveling and learning about different cultures

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Reading

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Snowboarding

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Languages

Bilingual, English and French, written and spoken

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Willing to travel up to 50%

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