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Name Susan
Phone 414-736-2130
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $101K - $125K
State Wisconsin
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Director of Media
Assurant Health
Milwaukee, WI
(Health Insurance)

Director of Marketing Inf
Assurant Health
Milwaukee, WI
(Health Insurance)

Senior Marketing Manager
Discover Financial Services
Riverwoods, IL
(Credit Card)

Key Accomplishments • Resourceful, analytical, highly motivated marketing professional with extensive experience in the financial services industry. • An effective communicator with leadership skills in directing, facilitating, integrating and motivating team members

• Plan, direct and optimize a 12 million dollar media budget via DRTV buying strategy and lead acquisition activities for the direct to consumer channel that meet or exceed target marketing metrics including cost per lead, cost per application and cost per policy. • Supported company acquisition goal of 60% increase in sales in 2009 via robust media plan. • Maintain Actual to Target Cost per Issue Ratio (AE) of 100% or less on rolling 12-month basis. • Positive year over year increase in brand awareness through media buy strategy.

• Support company acquisition goal of 30% in sales in 2010 while maintaining profitability levels. • Manage the identification and testing of new lead source opportunities for purposes of acquiring new insurance policy holders that are cost-effective and profitable. Leads are acquired using various direct marketing methods including direct response television, on-line, outbound telemarketing and direct mail. • Manage media testing strategy for new and existing lead sources to continuously refine and optimize target markets via robust analyti

Education / Skills B.A., Organizational Management, Concordia University-River Forest, 1994




Name sheryl
Phone 248-459-0523
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions SVP, Group Account Direct
Doner Advertising
Southfield, MI
(Advertising and Marketing)

SVP, Group Account Direct
Draft Worldwide
Chicago, IL
(Direct Marketing)

VP, Senor Account Supervi
Campbell Ewald
Warren, MI
(Advertising and Marketing)

Key Accomplishments Accomplished Direct Marketing Professional with a successful record of creating connections between consumers and brands that generate business growth.

- Solutions-Oriented Leader able to lead and manage diverse resources to provide continued client delight. - Results Driven Planner who utilizes key category, brand and customer insights to deliver ROMI based strategies.

- Multi-Media Strategist with proven ability to integrate multiple marketing vehicles and activate the target audience. - Database and CRM Practitioner who knows how to use data at both strategic and execution levels.

- Efficient Business Manager skilled in developing processes that insure consistent on time and on budget delivery. - Dynamic Presenter with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Education / Skills BA, Communications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI




Name Patty
Phone 847-975-1166
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Marketing Consultant
Advocate Healthcare
Oak Lawn, IL
(Health Care)

Caretaker

Northbrook, IL
(Sick family member)

Principal
PrintLink Enterprises, Inc.
Northbrook, IL
(Marketing Communications )

Key Accomplishments Advocate Heathcare: Responsible for marketing direction, creative supervision and project management for fundraising initiative. Developed marketing strategy, redesigned and reorganized brochure.

Caretaker for sick family member: Aggressively researched, presented findings, and convinced Dr. David Walterhouse and Children's Memorial Hospital to use an experimental drug.

PrintLink Enterprises, Inc.: Involved in all aspects of running a business including client development, P&L, account management, marketing campaigns, creative strategies, vendor relations and project oversight.

RPP Enterprises, Ltd: Responsible for identifying new business, developing quotations, and planning customer projects. Top salesperson in B2B saes. Opened large corporate accounts
Education / Skills University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL Bachelor of Fine Arts
Strategic, integrated, and multi-channel marketing, Branding and building corporate awareness.
Creative marketing campaigns and implementation of follow through materials. Key account and project management.
New business development, consultative sales orientation, Successful B2B sales, relationship builder.

Name Confidential
Phone 630-362-3263
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Principal - Regional Mgr
Midwest Geothermal Engineering
Illinois
(Enviromental)

Vice President
Urethane Soy Systems
Illinois
(Biobased Polyols)

Director Technology
American Stores
Illinois
(Food & Drug Retail)

Key Accomplishments Negotiated and executed master supply agreement with farmer’s co-op guaranteeing raw material supply and manufacturing, saving $1 million in capital expenditures and reducing production costs by 60%.

Developed and implemented a non-traditional mainframe reconfiguration for 200 users reducing day time utilization to under 80%, decreasing turnaround processing time by 75%, and avoiding a $3 million system upgrade.

Identified and negotiated purchase of the company for $8.5 million to polyol manufacturer.

Bundled developer projects minimizing risk to the investor through diversification resulting in $1 million in sales
Education / Skills




Name Gary
Phone 630-624-4748
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $76K - $100K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Mngr, Bus Unit Controller
Sears
Hoffman Estates, IL
(Major Retailer)

Snr Financial Analyst 3
Experian
Schaumburg, IL
(Direct marketing services)

Senior Accountant
Rigby / Reed Elsevier PLC
Crystal Lake, IL
(Educational publishing )

Key Accomplishments Sears - Uncovered $1.5mm in mis-expensed bad debt, and recovered amount to benefit Online P&L, helping to achieve bonus targets for 2009. Corrected over accrual of inventory reserve $3mm, helping achieve bonus targets for 2010.

Sears - assisted Full-Line Marketing management in achieving / beating budgets for 2006 - 2008, while cutting $46mm of expenses over that period, a 5% runrate savings. Managed cost allocation system of Adverting expenses for 800+ full line stores.

Experian - assisted SVP & VP's of I.T. in setting $40mm annual expense budgets and $15mm in capital budgets, and achieving / beating those budgets for 8 consecutive years. Saved $2mm in runrate expense by strategically choosing purchase over lease.

Rigby - submitted monthly full P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow set to U.K. corporate using Hyperion. Created a report to enable affirmed A/R collection calls, which prior had not been possible. Supervised 4 professionals over Sales/Commissions/AR.
Education / Skills Northern Illinois University, B.S. Accounting 1981 Certified Public Accountant, State of Illinois 1983
Hardware - IBM desktop / laptop 30 years, 10-key 30 years, IBM mainframes 5 years, high-speed Oce laser printers 5 years
Software- MS Excel 2007 highly skilled, MS Word 2007 skilled, MS Powerpoint skilled, Oracle Financials highly skilled,
Peoplesoft GL 5 years, essbase 5 years, Hyperion 2 years, Lawson GL 2 years, Proseries 20 years, Quickbooks 20 years.

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