Arlette Bernard

Experience

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  Sysco Business Service

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  Team Leader
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  Mouton's Catering, Inc.

  Jan 1991 - Jun 2000

  Vice President

  In charge of all aspects of business operation to include: direct sales and marketing, customer service, bid proposal preparation, employee hiring and training, employee performance evaluation, weekly employee scheduling, public relations and company image, payroll preparation, managed departmental budgets and expenses, and quarterly reports. I ensured that company objectives were met, if not exceeded.

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  Mary Kay Inc.

  Feb 1996 - Jul 2000

  Sales Director

  Conducted weekly product and sales training meetings for sales consultants in my unit, assisted sales consultants with skin care classes for potential customers, held monthly workshops, recruited customers and helped them start their Mary Kay business, responsible for training and motivating sales consultants to reach their highest potential sales volume.

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  Chandler's Cuisine

  Jun 2003 - Jun 2006

  Sales Manager

  Primary job function was building client and venue relations, cold calling and prospecting for new business, bid proposal presentation, sales presentations, and networking. In 2005 was promoted to manage all in-house catering for the Garland Special Events Center.

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  Sysco

  Aug 2008 - now

  Responsible for building relationships with current Sysco customers, partnering with our customers to help them reach their business goals, provide menu analysis and profitability suggestions to customers, plan sales calls to meet growth and penetration objectives, cold calls and prospecting to establish rapport with prospects, opening new accounts within my geographic territory, working with key personnel within the internal organization to satisfy the customer, work with brokers to get samples and make product/sales calls to the customers, handle all customer receivables and make sure they are current, train customers on the Sysco Market online ordering system, handle all customer objections and offer solutions to any problems that may arise, keep abreast of current market trends and help customers become knowledgeable of our products and services. Show less

  • Team Leader

    Apr 2012 - now

  • Marketing Associate

    Aug 2008 - Apr 2012