Lou Stricklin

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ABOUT LOU STRICKLIN

I’m a passionate Strategic Marketing Leader with success in optimizing business processes, cultivating new business opportunities, building high-performance teams, and delivering effective, cross-functional leadership to drive growth, revenue, and market share for B2B companies.I excel in leadership roles that define market strategy, customer experience, business process optimization, KPIs, and analysis. My global experience has molded me into an innovative, adaptive, and collaborative problem-solver who leads cross-functional and cross-cultural teams to deliver significant results.Consistently recognized for leadership excellence and bridging silos to enable business success, my mission is to create value for customers, partners, and stakeholders, while also empowering my team to reach their highest potential.Key Accomplishments:• Owned strategic planning and execution of termination of branded hardware sales in North and South America and subsequent transition of business and supply chain management to OKI Japan. Led team of 15 to complete hardware termination within 6 months and supply chain transition in 24 months.• Achieved 100% KPIs for profitability, revenue retention, channel communication, business process transition, and cost reductions. Over-achieved fiscal year revenue target by 12%.• Secured exclusive distribution partnership for OKI Japan to maintain ongoing availability of consumables and spare parts for customers in the Americas.• Closed five direct OEM partnerships resulting in thousands of new printer installations and 20% growth in annualized revenue.• Partnered with subsidiaries in EMEA, Japan, and Asia-Pacific to co-manage strategic global accounts, and aligned on engineering and manufacturing resources to reduce backorders by 10%, while launching new product line segments that generated millions in net new global revenue.• Developed KPIs for direct reports and provided feedback, support, and corrective actions achieving a 92% attainment average.Key skills & knowledge:Business Management | Account Cultivation | Business Planning & Reporting | Strategic Marketing |Team Building & Coaching | Performance Management | Networking | Financial Acumen |Product Strategy | Business Development | Client Engagement | Competitive Analysis | P&L |Product Marketing | Customer Experience | Partnerships | B2B | Negotiation | Brand ManagementI am currently exploring senior-level Marketing roles within the Dallas/Ft. Worth region. Contact: s••••••••@gmail.com