Manager Sales

SONJA FELOUTZIS

Telephone: 408-***-**** * www.linkedin.com/in/sonja-feloutzis * Email: **************@*****.*** Resourceful Performance-Driven Meeting Professional with Experience on Both Supplier and Client Side of The Hospitality Industry, Including:

• Complex Incentive Programs • SMM Account Management • Destination Management

• Catering Operations • Hotel Sales • Annual Sales Kickoff

• Customer Events • New Product Launch • Meetings at Sea CORE COMPETENCIES

• Direct event projects by embracing the challenge, owning the strategy, mobilizing the team, and executing superior results while containing costs.

• Reliably meet critical project objectives by instituting standard operating procedures and continually monitoring project lists, timelines, and budgets.

• Review current practices, utilize technology, and initiate new processes that increase efficiency and reduce operating costs while improving communication and program uniformity.

• Demonstrate a mentoring management style to encourage optimal staff performance and a team focused environment for sharing best practices, brainstorming new ideas, and identifying market trends.

• Flexible and adaptable in changing business environments.

• Meticulous organization; deliver quality programs and results.

• Positive can do attitude with a strong drive, sense of urgency, and upbeat, humorous personality. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONFERENCE DIRECT – GLENVIEW, IL

January 2012 – present

Sales Associate, Site Selection

CREATIVE GROUP INC. – BUFFALO GROVE, IL

September 2011 – December 2012

Account Manager

BCD MEETINGS & INCENTIVES - SANTA CLARA, CA

January 2007 – July 2011

Senior Program Manager

On-site at HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS

BCD MEETINGS & INCENTIVES – CHICAGO, IL

January 2006 - November 2006

Manager, Group Operation

INTERMED TRAVEL CONSULTANTS, DMC -

ATHENS, GREECE

March 2000 - August 2005

Incentives Department Manager

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION - CHICAGO, IL.

October 2005 - January 2006

Meeting Planner

AT KEARNEY CONSULTING - CHICAGO, IL

September 1997 - March 2000

Meeting Planner

EDUCATION

BRADLEY UNIVERSITY - PEORIA, ILLINOIS

Received Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Relations and Creative Advertising. Minor in Marketing COMPUTER SKILLS

CVENT, StarCite, Delphi, Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)

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