Jordan Perkins

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ABOUT JORDAN PERKINS

Adept at rapid relationship development and building rapport with all stakeholders from international negotiation with buyers and manufacturers, to logistics, supplier management, presenting and negotiating at C-suite level, evidencing strong leadership skills and commercial acumen Comfortable planning, controlling and developing high profile brands, most recently having ideated, created and manufactured (from specification) up to product lines in 12 international factories, sold the products into retailers across the globe (luxury goods - high value electronic fitness equipment, wellness and fitness accessories) Skilled at balancing multiple projects with an acute awareness of priorities and time management; onboards stakeholders, identifies and resolves root cause issues with a future-forward proactive approach to translating trends and ideas into high functioning opportunity pipelines Agile identification of market trends and conversion into revenue generation initiative, track record of expanding into global markets within sporting/fitness sector Highly articulate communicator, negotiator and influencer, comfortable engaging with all stakeholders Competitive, driven and focused; positive, confident and tenacious; evidenced flexibility, adaptability, and naturally collaborative, able to think strategically with strong analytical skills Achievements Track record of significant increase in budgeted sales targets YoY, recently achieving USD$7M sales in 2022 Coordinated and executed an event for cyclists (30 spectators) over 4 days, with full decision making autonomy of product logistics to site, all marketing and brand awareness execution to promote client brand Consistently promoted on business development achievements – Senior Category Manager, International Sales Manager, Global Category Head of Category, to Group International Sales Director Took ideation and conceptualised and executed a completely new revolutionary fitness brand – Skelcore