Amanda Hutton
**** ******** ******, ***** ***** Ont. N0R1A0
Cell: 519-***-****
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Summary
Cost Saving Specialist skilled in exceeding sales goals and company expectations by expanding client base and
maintaining high standards of customer service, while working with our vendors to reduce cost for the company as well
as the customers.
Highlights
Superior communication skills Strategic account development
Cheerful and energetic 4 years of purchasing experience
Effective team player Formulating quotes
Resolution-oriented Excellent negotiating tactic
Business Development
Accomplishments
Created strategies to develop and expand existing customer sales, which resulted in a 40% increase in monthly sales.
Developed relationships with vendors to allow customers what they needed as well as reducing costs to benefit their business.
Successfully supervised a department of 80+ employees working with upper management to reduce the labour time
being spent on packaging, in turn increasing the margin of the products being sold.
Experience
Cost Saving Consultant for Southwestern Ontario
February 2011 to March 2015
Fastenal Canada - Tecumseh, Ontario
• Planned and executed sales department improvements, updating the company's approach to marketing, cost analysis,
presentations.
• Responsible for implementing all business-building and relationship-building expectations with uniquely assigned
accounts and customers.
• Work closely with local stores, customers, and vendors to offer the best solution for both sides of the business
partnership.
• Quoted, delivered, and suggested items and systems to benefit their business.
• Completed quarterly review meetings to ensure the customer’s needs as well as the company’s needs are being met.
Supervisor
September 2009 to February 2011
Mastronardi Produce- Leamington, Ontario
• Supervised a department of 80+ employees ensuring customers deadlines were being met as well as the
company’s standards and expectations.
• Completed daily reports consisting of quality, inventory, employee progress, and cost management.
• Created schedules, monitored hours, and trained new employees, as well as continuous training for current
employees.
• Assisted upper management to create new items to reduce cost and executed the approved ideas in a timely
manner.
E ducation
High School Diploma: 2004
Leamington District Secondary School - Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Honor Roll Academic Achievement Award
Valedictorian
Continuous Business Training: Business
Fastenal School of Business - Winona, United States