Ray Gates

About Ray Gates

RAYMOND J. GATES c••••••••@gmail.com If you are interested in radically improving the sales and profitability of your organization by focusing on earning and increasing the trust of your customers, I would like to share my ideas with you. I am intensely-driven and performance-focused, and I excel at creating profitable companies by employing exceptional customer relationship skills, closing exclusive deals, creating and implementing unique market entry strategies, and deftly managing complex business relationships. I am focused and efficient, with the clear-sighted ability to catapult companies into explosive revenue growth. Accelerating growth through the introduction of best management, operating, and marketing practices to achieve world-class status is what I do best. A few examples of what you can expect to see from me include: • Recognized as a rainmaker and sales driver who builds exceptional sales organizations that deliver top revenue and profit performance in competitive markets. • A strategist for market expansion, product distribution, and sustainable, volume-driven sales. • Performance-focused sales and marketing manager, consistently delivering revenue growth and driving highly strategic business initiatives to support corporate goals. strategies, programs, systems, products, and processes to boost sales performance, capture new revenue opportunities and expand into new channels; an effective leader of sales teams, key accounts, and company-wide initiatives. My successes in adding value through my marketing, sales, and business development efforts are well-documented, you can read more about them in my résumé, which is attached. I can also offer qualities of creativity, versatility, adaptability, resourcefulness, integrity, dedication to excellence, and the critical ability to lead and motivate staff to consistently exceed expectations.Specialties: Food Industry Expert in retail Operations Management and Consumer Products.

Experience

1. Director of Sales

   Morinaga America

   Jan 2024 — Present · US

Education

• Wingate University

  Bachelor's, Liberal Studies, Business; Business Management Curriculum

  1997 — 2000

• Canisius University

  No, Business

  1979 — 1982

Skills

• Leadership
• Grocery
• Crm
• Inventory Management
• Business Development
• Direct Sales
• Shopper Marketing
• Merchandising
• Time Management
• Trade Marketing
• Consumer Products
• Retail
• Iri
• Sales Management
• Customer Insight
• Management
• Team Building
• Strategic Planning
• Fmcg
• Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (Fmcg)
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Marketing
• Forecasting
• Sales Operations
• Key Account Development
• New Business Development
• Strategy
• Sales
• Pricing
• Selling
• Budgets