PROVEN SALES TURNAROUND EXPERTISE

Delivering strong growth based results with passion & energy.

 

 

About Tony

Tony is a growth driven hands on General Manager/ Sales leader with extensive B2B experience featuring multi-brand, multi-channel industrial products where strong commercial leadership and customer focus is required, delivering strong results even in extremely challenging environments.

Typical Business Clients

  • B2B Wholesaler – either a Manufacturer or Importer
  • Selling either direct or via Distribution
  • Building Materials/Industrial Products
  • Typical size of 5-25 people or $5-$25Mn Turnover

Definition of insanity

“Doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting a different result”

– Albert Einstein

Definition of insanity

“Doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting a different result”

– Albert Einstein

Personal Strengths & Capabilities.

  • A rare balance between a strong Sales & Marketing focus combined with a deep & broad finance/supply chain/operations background;

  • Enquiring mind and technical bias with rapid uptake when moving into new businesses;

  • Personal strengths of resilience and results-orientation balanced with high levels of drive, passion & energy.

Career Highlights

  • Recent GM roles leading strong 50%+ growth sales turnarounds in smaller private businesses (<$40Mn). Prior to that, 20+ years in a large corporate across a range of positions including State & National sales roles (<$150Mn)

  • Drove customer service improvements and reinvigorated the technical service/support team;

  • Generated 30%+ cashflow improvements though inventory efficiency and cost controls;

  • Successfully led implementation of numerous CRM and sales analytic systems.

Business Specialties

  • Sales Management
  • General Management
  • CEO/MD/Director
  • Working capital reduction
  • Business strategy development
  • Corporate Budgeting
  • P&L Accountability
  • Sales Team effectiveness
  • Sales recruitment
  • Solution/Consultative Selling
  • Strategic account development
  • Team Coaching & Mentoring
  • Customer Segmentation
  • Sales Territory Budgeting
  • CRM system implementation
  • Saleforce.com
  • ERP systens
  • Dynamics AX / GP
  • NetSuite
  • Inventory forecasting – Netstock
  • Sales Analytics – Phocas