Sales Manager
Resume:
JOSHUA SOCHER
COOPER CITY FL 33024
“The door to success is marked PUSH”
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain a position in Management (ex. Sales, marketing, training, Team leader) where I can best utilize my 24 years of experience in these field’s. A career where I can help the company achieve their goals and surpass them!
WORK EXPERIENCE
ROOM PLUS FURNITURE N.J./N.Y.
1993-1997 SALESMAN
-Went through a 4 week training program (RPU) in which I learned the company’s product and explained the features, advantages, and benefits of our furniture overcoming customer’s concerns and closing the sale!
-* FIRST YEAR (18yrs old) BECAME #2 IN SALES OUT OF 158 SALES ASSOCIATES IN ENTIRE COMPANY
1997-2002 DISTRICT MANAGER FOR OUR 3 MANHATTAN LOCATIONS
Duties continued
- Visiting all 3 stores weekly to make sure showroom was kept neat for customers
- Overlooked how the store was performing and different ways to create more traffic
- Met Weekly with each of the Manager’s from one of the three locations discussed salespeople performance, store performance, what changes if any needed to be made and met those goals
- Met Monthly with other district management, principle owner’s to go over company goals
- Any new products we were producing, or introducing to our furniture line
-Went over each month to see what districts hit their goal
2002-2007
VICE PRESIDENT OF MY KIDS ROOM FURNITURE EAST BRUNSWICK NJ
-Trained all new sales associates through companies four week training program which included
- Product knowledge- How our product was made and why superior over that of our competitors
- How to find out what the customer needs are and create those needs for them
- Layouts of rooms and where best to place furnishings
- Helped C.E.O of company with Advertising both print and T.V. Sat in with negotiations and where best to spend advertising money to draw in the most traffic
- Helped with design of companies web-site making sure it was user friendly and east to navigate
- Met weekly with C.E.O to go over gross sales, new products, day to day operations
-Responsible for all hiring/firing of new sales associates
2007-2009 POSH DÉCOR’ (Paramus N.J.) C.E.0
-Opened and ran a 5000 sq/ft showroom and a 3000 sq ft Factory where we made customized furniture
- Was one of a kind furniture store where you pick the style, wood, size, finish, and pulls
- made all custom bedroom sets, wall unit’s, crown molding’s, accent tables, dining room tables
- first year in business company grossed 1.6 Million Dollar’s
- Had to eventually close business due to the housing market crash at the time (people were losing there homes) and not buying furnishing’s for it at that time.
2009-2012 MIAMI/FT LAUDERDALE FL
RECOVERY FIRST CALL CENTER SR Sales Manager
Hired to pick up phones and talk to people who have addiction problem’s and convince them to come to FL for Treatment
- Spoke to hopeless and desperate people who called in from all over the country and convinced them to get on a plane and come to FL for Treatment all within 24 hour’s of when they call in
- T.O. any calls that other associates were having problems with the client on the phone.
- was #1 out of 23 phone representatives for the year in getting the most people in Treatment.
2012-2013 Pompano Beach FL
Cydcor Marketing
- Sales associate going business to business (gorilla marketing) to offer the companies product in which we were marketing for.
- Was promoted within 2month’s to Senior Trainer which duties include
-Taking new employees out in the field and teach them how to market the product, overcome objectives, and make the sale.
- At the end of each day went over my trainees day with them.
-went over there sales, tracking sheet, and goal’s for each week
2013-2014
IMMERGE MARKETING
-Was hired as a SR leader from my past experience with my last Marketing company
-After 90 day’s was the #1 Salesperson out of 300 salespeople in the U.S. who was on this campaign which was doing Marketing/Sales for Tiger Natural Gas.
- went to businesses who uses Natural gas, explained about the government Deregulation.
-Was the fastest in company history to go through sales, trainer, junior partner, and got my own I.B.O. -Named and inc Vmax Concepts within 6 months while the average time is 12-18 month’s!
- Opened my office first out in Orlando where we were the #1 office in sales for that campaign.
2014-Present Vmax concepts
-The campaign I was running for Immerge Marketing Tiger Natural Gas decided to part way’s
-I signed a direct agreement with Tiger Gas to do there sales/marketing
-Since then have been #1 in sales out of 32 companies in 18 states.
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-EDUCATION
OCEAN TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL (OCEAN N.J.)
UNIVERSITY OF LONG ISLAND (BUSINESS)
RPU (ROOM PLUS UNIVERSITY) 8 WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM FOR RETAIL SALES
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