Jennifer Ashley Waters **** Sycamore St 704-***-**** Cel
Beaufort, SC 29902 e-mail: *******.********@*****.***
PROFILE
• Experience in managing a sales team – General Manager
• Fourteen years sales experience in the franchise, education, security, retail and real Estate industries
• Eight years actively engaged in international business with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds
• Specialist in selling tangible and intangible products. Selling Real Estate in Mexico
• Successful in all areas of sales: inside, outside and sales management
• Expertise in customer service issues
• Extensive expertise in all areas of sales: sales training, motivational sales, individual sales and managing
• Sales representatives and sales support
• Trilingual: English is my first language, completely fluent in Spanish, fluent in Portuguese
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Franchise Sales Advisor, Carolinas and Jacksonville, Florida
• Responsible for selling 18 franchise concepts in the Carolinas and Jacksonville
• Responsible for building business broker and new client relationships
• Responsible for selling Master and Unit franchises
• Reported directly to one of the owners of the company out of Arizona
Responsible for managing Computer training company in Charlotte, North Carolina
• Responsible for all areas of sales and managing 8 sales representatives
• Responsible for all sales revenue and managing existing accounts and new business
• Responsible for P & L and IBIDA numbers
• Reported directly to the CEO
• Managed and trained sales representatives – along with overlooking impact of operations
• On sales
• Worked with accounts such as: Bank of America, Wachovia, First Equity, etc.
Responsible for selling international franchises in the computer training and language training industries:
• Sold US$2.5 million in initial franchise fees; 10 Master Franchises and over 32 Unit Franchises.
• Surpassed goals for Latin America by 114% in the first year.
• Sold international franchises in Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Pakistan, Lebanon, Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras and Jamaica.
• Responsible for sales training and increasing sales revenue in South America
• Responsible for International sales and market development.
• Won Outstanding Performance of the Year Award for 2000.
Managed multiple sales responsibilities:
• Responsible for supporting over 100 sales Representatives/franchises from South and Central America.
• Increased sales revenue and franchise royalties.
• Provided sales training in various Latin American cities.
• Met Division goals/objectives for overall revenue and profitability.
• Responsible for selling franchises worldwide; sold franchises in Costa Rica, Panama and China.
• Responsible for selling TOFEL program; exceeded sales goals for TOFEL program.
• Responsible for training international franchisees in all aspects of their sales programs.
• Prospected for franchise candidates by mail, telephone and in person; continually monitored and evaluated potential franchise candidates; reported and followed up on all the foregoing.
• Sold advertising and promotional materials for ELS Language Centers.
• Worked in team settings; communicated in appropriate languages
Supported and sold for largest International Relocation Company in Mexico City for Fortune 500 Companies:
• Supporting all activities of the largest international real estate company in Mexico City.
• Increased efficiency of relocation program by developing pre-arrival interview process to identify client needs. Finding homes for clients.
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• Increased sales efficiency by re-tooling the scheduling system to make better use of agent time and improve client satisfaction.
• Facilitate the relocation into Mexico of foreign executives and their families from all parts of the world.
• Developed business relationships with over thirty FORTUNE 500 clients.
• Created a condensed easy-reference orientation guide for foreign executives. This included details on cultural differences, immigration, local mores, legal, and taxation and education issues.
• Negotiated and finalized rental and sales contracts with Mexican property owners on behalf of foreign clients.
• Top real estate agent for the months of September, October and November 1994.
Sales Awards throughout the years:
Won Outstanding Performance of the Year in 2000 at New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
Profiled in Franchise International Magazine Worldwide entitled, “Woman at the Helm”
Brinks Home Security:
o 25th out of 520 representatives nationwide the month of Sep 96.
o Grossed highest sales for the month of July, August and September of 1996
o Customer service award for October in Los Angeles branch
Employment History
Retail/Radio advertising/interpreting medical for patients/contractor/sales Feb 2011 - 2012
Independent Contractor/Consultant/Franchise Broker/Personal Trainer/Career Counselor/Teacher
January 2008 - January 2010
Franchise Growth Systems – Based out of Arizona, covered sales for Carolinas December 2005 – January 9, 2007
Resigned – Franchise Sales Advisor
Computer Educations Services Corporation, Charlotte, NC and SC Branch, April 2005 – October 1, 2005
Company went out of business nationwide – Vice President of Sales, for the Carolinas
Sabbatical to raise my son January 2002
New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Inc., Anaheim, California
Director of Franchise Development October 1998 – December 2001
ELS Language Centers, Inc., Culver City, California
Director of Development, Latin America February 1997 – June 1998
Brinks Home Security San Diego & Los Angeles, California
Sales Associate January 1996 – January 1997
International Relocation Service S,A de C.V Mexico City, Mexico
Director of Relocations January 1991 – March 1995
Hamilton School and Thomas Jefferson Institute Mexico City, Mexico
English Teacher January 1987 – December 1990.
EDUCATION
Universidad de Las Americas Mexico City, México
Bachelor of Arts in Bilingual Education Graduated 1992
Minor in Spanish
Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona 1990