MATTHEW STAHLE
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Washington, UT 84780 E-mail: *************@*****.***
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Executive Manager and Proven Leader with 10+ years of experience in retail sales management including 6+ years of multi unit management, and product marketing. A history of successfully developing relationships with employees as well as clients to establish long term business. Proven track record of hitting aggressive sales and revenue goals. Accustomed to meeting tight deadlines in a fast paced environment.
Leading personal qualities include:
• Self-motivated; able to set effective priorities to achieve immediate and long-term goals and meet operational deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Adapts easily to new concepts and responsibilities; thrives in a changing environment.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Wasatch Kiosks (Natural Health) 03/2009-Present
DISTRICT MANAGER
• 4 years experience of setting up and managing 10 retail locations throughout the US including: Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina, Utah, Texas, Nevada, & Virginia.
• Manages day-to-day operations of busy retail business; supervises staff of 63; responsible for monthly P/L, inventory reports, and national event promotions.
• Responsible for building and maintaining relationships, hiring, training, and personnel management of employees.
• Rolls out and implements corporate branding and merchandising strategies to ensure store unity.
• Built e-commerce sales for 3 company websites from the ground up and went from $0 to $1.2 million gross within 12 months.
• Developed a website backend implementing sales, fulfillment, customer service, and reporting to create a seamless process for all business departments.
• Directly manages all web marketing efforts and consistently increases quality lead conversions from all sources, including: organic search, paid search, social media marketing, and email marketing.
SmartMobile (Exclusive T-Mobile Dealer) 3/2006 – 2/2009
DISTRICT MANAGER
• Helped oversee ordering, inventory control, and revenue for 6 exclusive T-Mobile retail stores throughout Utah.
• Worked with store managers to implement corporate branding and merchandising strategies to ensure store unity.
• Monitored financial, budgeting, and sales reporting for retail stores in assigned area including stores P&L’s.
• Supervised store presentation including store merchandise, facilities management, adherence to marketing directives and adherence to store standards.
• Executes new branding campaigns, product launches, and customer appreciation events.
• Recruited and trained top talent for key retail store positions.
Inked Wear (Screen printing/embroidery) 10/2004 – 3/2006
NATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR
• Built sales for a start-up company from the ground up and successfully brought in $200K+ in sales in the first year and increased sales 50% the second year.
• Oversaw a sales team of 7 and handled goal setting and employee evaluations.
• Obtained and retained local and national accounts by providing outstanding products, customer service, and competitive pricing.
• Directed all marketing efforts including: radio, out-of-home, yellow-page advertising, and on-line advertising.
• Managed and tracked client orders and sales, through Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) software on a daily basis.
Verizon Superpages 12/2003 – 10/2004
ACCOUNT MANAGER
• Negotiated all business-to-business contracts, set up new accounts, created yellow page advertisements, and controlled co-op dollars.
• Sold and closed national accounts each bringing in revenue of $100,000 and above.
• Achieved in the top 90% closing ratio in the Salt Lake City market.
• Trained and shadowed new employees on selling advertising concepts, on-line research, and new programs.
Cricket Communications 12/2002-12/2003
FLOOR MANAGER
• Hit retail sales quota every month, and maintained the highest percentage to goal hitting in the 90th percentile at the retail store level as well as the Salt Lake Market.
• Handled customer purchases, contracts, refunds, billing issues, and solved solutions for any phone and face-to-face escalations.
• Received quarterly peer awards, nominated by fellow co-workers.
EDUCATION
Salt Lake Community College
Field of Study: Major-Business Management Minor-Marketing
(Currently pursing only on-line classes)
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST