Peter C. Nithsdale
Los Angeles CA 90028
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International Transportation Salesman:
Highly successful career selling international transportation solutions and options to the manufacturing industry. Have sold to all types of clientele, from Fortune 500 companies to small family owned businesses. Dedicated, skilled and trained business professional with versatile skills. Sold successfully in New York Metropolitan area and Los Angeles/Long Beach. Excels in problem solving and persuasive skills in establishing new business.
Key Skills:
Excellent negotiator. Proven ability to help start up companies be highly successful. Report and documentation preparation. Able to sell to all levels of management. Highly successful sales background in US and Europe.
Key contacts with overseas agents on a worldwide basis. Experienced in technical sales. Ability to gain account loyalty, with proven long-time partnerships with top companies. Ability to unify diverse groups of people behind a common goal.
Experience:
At present Sales Manager in Los Angeles for a New York based international air and ocean forwarder. Selling all services throughout the Los Angeles area, with particular emphasis on South East Asia. Recently through expansion, I have been selling successfully import trade lanes via FCL, LCL and air consol from Bangladesh to Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago controlled from our Los Angeles office.
GIF Services Inc, Linden NJ
Feb 2000 through end 2006
Sales Manager selling for a smaller family owned international transportation company. I helped start the company from scratch and brought in some household name accounts. Employee training and recruiting, and budget planning. I negotiated with and brought in as our agents large overseas forwarders from Indonesia, China, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, which were made into highly profitable trade lanes both air and ocean into NY/NJ and LA/LB. Some of the household names included but were not limited to Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum of Modern Art and Alcan Packaging.
Inter Maritime Forwarding Co. William St, New York, New York 1992 through November 1999. Generated minimum $1.1 million dollars in revenue in years 1994 thru 1997. Started as salesman selling UK/NY trade lanes via air consols and weekly ocean consols. Huge household names at the time were brought on board including Burberry, Spode, Waterford Wedgewood, Sanderson Wall coverings. To name only a few. After that success I was asked to help revitalize the forwarding and brokerage sales which I did very successfully. I then worked for two years running the traffic department of IMF’s largest forwarding account, Cosmetech Mably at the request of their CFO. I reorganized their trade routes and factories in the Far East and handled shipping components to US, Canada, South and Central America and Western Europe.