Priscilla Gara
Sherwood park,AB
Summary
Experienced sales precessional with proven ability to grow accounts, coach teams, and build strong customer base. Skilled at diagnosing client needs, and delivering tailored solutions and influencing across departments. Recognized for leadership, elevating team performance through coaching and strategic planning. Seeking a Sales Manager role to drive revenue growth, develop high-performing sales teams and strengthen market position.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Inside Sales Representative
Samson Controls
11.2021 - Current
- Elevated low-priority accounts into key accounts by cultivating cross-departmental relationships and maintaining consistent and strategic communication.
- Met and exceeded sales targets to contribute to overall sales goals and revenue of company.
- Collaborated with outside sales representatives, and internal departments to generate leads and support sales revenue.
- Streamlined and rebuilt CRM processes. Transformed an unusable database into an organized reliable system that minimized lost sales opportunities.
- Collaborated with managers to streamline internal processes and implement creative solutions that enhanced operational efficiency and supported sales goals.
Managing Partner
Rainbow Systems
01.2017 - 07.2021
- Management - Oversee sales team, manage lead acquisition, facilitate team and individual training, and support administrative work. Self-employed managing business partner of a local office currently operating in Olympia, Washington.
- Sales - Experience in door-to-door, trade show, and telephone-based sales. Responsible for acquiring and maintaining customer bases through a primarily direct-sale format.
- Training - Responsible for module-based training as well as field training. Relaying company and office procedures, reiterating sales strategies, observing and coaching employees in interpersonal skills and customer rapport, and formal evaluation of trainees.
- Rainbow Systems is a globally operated, direct-sales, referral-based company specializing in air purification/home cleaning systems. Through experience with the company I have had the opportunity to work across Western Canada and in the United States, gaining experience in sales, employee training, and business management.
Education
Certificate - Commercial Diving
Divesafe International
Campbell River, BC10-2014
Graduate Certificate - Trades
Women Building Futures
Edmonton, AB09-2013
Skills
- Team Leadership & Coaching
- Relationship building and management
- Performance management
- Tenacious follow-up
- B2B sales
- New business development
- Prospect qualification
- Conflict resolution
- Driven
- Revenue Growth and Pipeline development
Other Education/Experience
Professional development - Sales oriented
Jordan Belfort (Weekly module-based in-house team building) Sept, 2021
Monthly interpersonal and sales development training (resource-oriented) Aug, 2020 - 2021
Daniel Pinkman TedTalk (Personnel training within sales) May 2022
Tony Robbins Seminar (Goal-oriented mindset) Feb, 2019
Danny Johnson Conference (Effective management and interpersonal training) May, 2018
Timeline
Inside Sales Representative
Samson Controls
11.2021 - Current
Managing Partner
Rainbow Systems
01.2017 - 07.2021
Certificate - Commercial Diving
Divesafe International
Graduate Certificate - Trades
Women Building Futures