Fern Grant

About Fern Grant

A professional in both creative marketing and business development, with experience designing, branding, and developing new market channels, while executing business strategies and building strong relationships with customers.A Keen understanding of business strategies while demonstrating excellent communications skills, both written, oral and an effective problem solver. The ability to manage multiple projects from conception to completion.

Experience

1. Business Developer Manager

   Active Staffing Services

   Apr 2007 — Present

   Active Staffing Services was founded more than 70 years ago and has been providing better talent and faster hires to the light industrial and office services marketplace ever since. We have continuously evolved over the years and are proud of our modern, tech-savvy approach to staffing. We take seriously our promise to help our employees improve their lives through meaningful work and to help our clients grow by having the workforce they need to succeed. Based in New York, Active is expanding with offices in the NY Metro area, New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. ACTIVE STAFFING SERVICES 2007 - Present Business Developer Manager• Developing and maintaining commercially productive relationships with both new and old clients. • Account development, cold calling, assessing client needs, and identifying solutions.• Manage account relationships, contract negations, sales, pricing, billing, and logistics.• Lead Planning, strategy, proposal process and bid preparation.• Account Management. • Market Research on industry trends. • Train and mentor new sales representatives.• Special projects for corporate growth.• Corporate support to Senior Management• Collections Management

Education

• Buffalo State University

  BFA, Fine Art

• Fashion Institute of Technology

  • A.A.S. in Display & Exhibit Designing, Display & Exhibit Designing

Skills

• Inventory Management
• Brand Development
• Pricing
• College Recruiting
• Budgets
• Social Networking
• Contract Recruitment
• Sales Management
• Retail
• Event Planning
• Technical Recruiting
• Hiring
• Interviews
• Negotiation
• Email Marketing
• Photoshop
• Internet Recruiting
• Microsoft Word
• Staffing Services
• Human Resources
• Customer Service
• Sourcing
• Temporary Placement
• Talent Acquisition
• Apparel
• Management
• Networking
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Brochures
• Recruiting
• Organizational Development
• Cold Calling
• Advertising
• Executive Search
• Marketing
• Online Marketing
• E-Commerce
• Onboarding