Manager Sales

ROBERT F. GELLER

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Staten Island, NY 10312

Home: 718-***-**** *******@*****.*** Cell: 646-***-****

SUMMARY

Package Development Manager with a proven track record in successful launches of over 200 fragrances and fragrance ancillaries for brands like, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, BadgleyMischka, Kate Spade, John Varvatos, Usher, Rocawear, Green Tea, 5th Avenue, Red Door. Able to create and solve complex and unique packaging issues from design concept and preliminary cost sheets through package feasibility and testing to manufacturing, filling and assembly. Well-qualified for positions in the Cosmetics, Fragrances, Toiletries Health and Beauty Aids or Consumer Goods Industries.

Design and Development Expertise in the following areas:

• Folding cartons, labels, set boxes, wraps, shopping bags and posters

• Printing, offset, gravure, silk screening, flexographic, silk screening, and holographs.

• Glass and plastic primaries and secondary’s: custom and stock ; including decoration

• Injection and compression molding of closures; threaded and non- threaded.Compacts, lipstick and mascara containers including the making of tools, dies and molds

• Manufacturing and filling of fragrances, creams, lotions, deodorants, powders, gels and lipsticks as well as salts and fragranced effervescent tablets

• Gifts, novelties and premiums sourced from Asia, South America, Europe as well as domestic sources

• Protective packaging - corrugate and chipboard

Skills

• Cost Sheet preparation and management

• Package Development Timeline preparation and management

• Work independently within the guidelines set by corporate management

• Executing goals in situations that are less than optimistic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ELIZABETH ARDEN, Stamford, CT 1998 – 2011

Package Development Manager

• Designed and engineered a vacuum formed holder that will prevent a package on a flat surface from transit damage and allowed it to be displayed without falling or tipping over.

• Sourced unique and one of a kind decoration methods from various decorators in Asia, Europe and locally, that gave Brand a competitive edge in the Market Place. i.e., Holograph on glass (Red Door Shimmer): Flocking on folding carton (Red Door Velvet): Rain drops on glass and plastic bottles (Green Tea) Application of Swarovski stones on glass (Britney Spears Fantasy). Shiny gold and silver glass (Halston Men and Women)

• Developed set box that did not visibly show set box corner stays (John Varvatos10thAnniversary)

Accu Group Technologies, Edison , NJ 1992- 1998

Sales Director

Lead Salesman for a new startup company. Brought sales to $2.8mm annually by the time the company shut down.

Charles of the Ritz. Holmdel, NJ 1983-1988

Package Development Manager

Managed the Launch and maintained the brands, Alexander De Markoff skin and color line-up, Bain De Soleil Sun Care line, Jean Nate fragrance and ancillaries, as well as Enjoli and Senchal.

EDUCATION

Various seminars in purchasing and packaging,

Brooklyn College; Kings Borough Community College

INTERESTS

Cooking, Impressionist art, reading

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