Nicole Nieman
NC/SC Region 949-***-**** **************@******.***
linkedin.com/in/nicole-nieman
Successful sales and business development executive with long-term success driving significant incremental results through integrated sales, marketing and customer service. Highly effective through strategic planning, excellent consultative selling, project, collaboration, negotiation, and persuasion to generate meaningful ROI.
Leadership and executive management skills
National Event Planner and Scheduler Clear and Effective Communicator Change Management
Multi-Project Management Relationship Builder Microsoft Office Suite
professional experience
Business Consultant, Gen Rev 2023
Apply in-depth knowledge of functional medicine principles to guide clinic operations.
Process Improvement: Analyze workflows, procedures and protocols to identify areas for enhancement. Implement changes to increase efficiency and optimize patient outcomes and experiences.
Provide staff training and development.
Identify and provide areas for improvement based on evaluating current processes and systems within the clinic.
Apex Energetic, Irvine, CA 2004-2015
Director of Outside Sales
Supervised day-to-day sales support and business development for a 5-million-dollar provider of healthcare products driving market growth by 30%.
Championed marketing and education strategies to expand our market and gain a reputation as a high-quality provider of nutritional products.
Sales Management and Marketing
Revamped all marketing, materials and communications, resulting in doubling attendance in existing company seminars, expanding into new markets and increasing sales by 18% per practitioner.
Review business processes, job roles, systems and marketing variations, improving cost-effectiveness, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Organizational Development
Innovator of new departments and business functions and consistently providing outstanding customer experience and top-tier customer support to decrease customer complaints.
Drove the enhancement of educational programs, new product rollouts and strategies to bridge the gap between traditional medicine and nutritional therapies.
Technology, Logistics, and Channel Development
Collaborated with the CEO, inside sales and customer service managers to create new tools, including a proprietary CRM tool that increased customer follow-up, sales tracking, and forecasting.
Worked with developers to build a blood chemistry software tool to assist practitioners in tracking patients' blood test results, identifying dysfunction and creating a comprehensive functional health report.
Client Relationship Management
Personally managed a portfolio of long-term relationships with high-volume clients; developed lead-generation programs to uncover new opportunities utilizing various cold-calling and prospecting strategies to support sales, revenue and profitability goals.
Trained practitioners on business best practices to ensure maximum success with branding and product bundling to increase patient sales by 15%.
Led meetings with sales reps to develop, motivate and problem-solve, which resulted in higher productivity.
early career
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Esthetician License