MARK HALFPENNY
Des Plaines, IL *****
Cellular: 210-***-**** ************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE & SUMMARY
Sales and/or Marketing Executive position that will leverage my extensive experience in leadership, recruiting, training, communications, structuring new business ideas, driving results and developing talent. Qualifications include demonstrated capabilities in the areas of:
New Sales/Marketing Plans Development
Employee Coaching & Engagement
Alliance Partnerships & Relations
Multi-level Communications
Incentive & Recognition Plans
Front-Line & Relationship Selling
QUALIFICATIONS
WYNDHAM DESTINATIONS (WYND) 2009 – Present
Wyndham Destinations is the world’s largest vacation ownership, exchange and rental company with a global presence of 220+ resorts and 4,300+ affiliated exchange properties in 110 countries.
Vice President, Sales & Marketing (Chicago) 2016 – Present
Assigned to site turnaround leader position that resulted in site performance delivering $1.1M+ profit in 2019 compared to $1.2M losses in 2016 at time of assignment.
Lead, coach and inspire a front-line and in-house workforce of #Employees? #Tours? Sales?
Serve as “floating” Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Midwest Region.
Conduct daily sales and marketing meetings plus weekly sales training sessions.
Plan weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly recognition programs.
Vice President, Sales & Marketing (New Orleans) 2012 – 2016
Grew sales performance at New Orleans site to $48M in annual topline revenue from $16M and NOI to $12M from $1.6M.
Led focused initiative on marketing plans & programs that resulted in annual guest/prospect count increase to 20,000 from 10,000.
Led recruiting, training, retention and engagement efforts for a workforce that grew to 152 associates.
Director, Sales Training (San Antonio) 2010 – 2012
Responsible for sales training for #Employees? In-house plus front-line?
Sales Executive, In-house Operations (Branson) 2009 – 2010
Relationship and upselling responsibilities that delivered Avg. Sales per Guest (approx.) .
BLUEGREEN VACATIONS (BXG) 2008 – 2009
Bluegreen vacations consists of 60 company-managed timeshare resorts with alternative resort and cruise options available through upselling and third-party exchanges.
Senior Manager, Sales (Wisconsin Dells)
Frontline sales leader responsible for a team of # sales executives including delivering on revenue targets, recruiting, training, coaching and rewards & recognition.
Sites sales volume? #Tours? Other Metrics? #Employees?
WYNDHAM DESTINATIONS (WYND) 2004 – 2007
Sales Manager (San Antonio) 2005 – 2007
Led, coached, recruited and trained a front-line sales workforce of #Employees? #Tours? Sales?
Senior Sales Representative (Wisconsin Dells) 2004 – 2005
Frontline sales representative responsible for converting tour guests into timeshare vacation resort owners with an average purchase price of approximately $ price?.
BLUEGREEN VACATIONS (BXG) 1998 – 2004
Sales Representative (Wisconsin Dells) 2002 – 2004
Frontline?
Customer Service Representative (Wisconsin Dells) 1998 – 2002
Responsibilities?
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin Earned Credits in General Studies
AWARDS
Presidents Club Member 5 times with Wyndham Destinations
Sales Trainer of the Year Wyndham Destinations 2011
Pinnacle Award for Frontline and In-house 2011
One Wyndham National Award recipient of 8 times
Salesperson of the Year 2005