Rachelle Rist

Supervised and mentored a personal sales associate Acquired sales with major retailers, such as REI, Ace Hardware, Orchard Supply Hardware, Maui Jim and Patagonia. Created a group buy program that successfully landed products in the top National Parks in the United States. Continued buisness with the parks such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, Denali, Zion, Canyonlands, and Hawaii Pacific Parks continue to flourish with record sales year round. Made outbound cold calls to gain new buisness. Maintain customer relationship after sale had been made. Provide channel direction to company for continued sales growth. Upsell to exsisting customers into new product collections.

Took incoming calls with customers placing order over phone, upsold. Maintained outbound stock check calls average of 30 per day Responsible for 10% of Sales Managers quota Helped customers on companies E-Commerce website Various other Office related tasks, answering front door, planning office parties, ordering supplies, ect.

Responsible for the order processing of 3 to 5 routes on a daily basis. Contacted 20-40 customers a day; took large volume orders, entered data into multiple systems, and prepared routes for drivers. Wrote orders for 6 vendors, tracked all items, negotiated prices with suppliers, submitted orders, and monitored order deliveries. Also helped warehouse in monthly inventory counts, and breaking down and distributing pallets of products to customers.

Promoted to delivering regular orders to the high paced, very demanding position of rush orders. Delivered requested documents to clients in timely manner Attention to detail was extremely important while verifying documents accuracy and ensuring copy quality. Communicated with various "runners" located at National Library of Medicine, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UCLA, and University of Michigan libraries.

Prepared and executed food service bids for 60 to 80 school districts. Made company aware of lost income, and created system to track “bill backs”, recovering $50,000 - $100,000 in monthly revenue Corresponded with suppliers and requesting product quotes, negotiated prices, entering and verifying product costs, and finalizing bid paperwork for submission. Also responsible for the entire inventory of the Cash & Carry retail store, and database maintenance on market priced items.