Daniel Akin

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About Daniel Akin

LEADERSHIP ACUMEN: Create winning cultures, grow capabilities, and realize unparalleled profitability for enterprises across diverse markets, including retail, food and beverage, and manufactured and consumer goods product lines. Offer years of demonstrated success in facilitating strategic negotiations, market expansion, relationship management, team building, and product life cycle management. Adept at balancing strong communication abilities with a firm understanding of business practices, promotional strategies, and team leadership techniques. Flourish in fast-paced, dynamic environments while steering multimillion-dollar sales operations. Drive improvement initiatives, enabling transformational change and identifying opportunities for new business development and growth. Highly successful with building relationships with clients, sourcing business and products, executing strategy projects, and meeting sales quotas. If you need strong growth- and results-driven leadership to move your organization to its next level of success, contact me at dan.akin@ymail.com. SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS: Achieved 159% INCREASE IN SHARE GROWTH, EARNING “Highest Growth Dollar Share” accolades. Received #2 in KELLOGG’S Nationwide Sales Growth Accomplishment with $100M Annual Sales. Recipient of KELLOGG’S “Zone Manager of the Year” National Award. Earned 2010 MVP Award as “Greatest Region Revenue Contributor” for Snyders-Lance. Named District Manager of the Year Award in for exceptional leadership abilities. “Daniel’s knowledge and business acumen were outstanding and impeccable. His ability to pull teams together and foster and lead people were infectious.” ~ UTZ Regional Manager STRENGTHS & EXPERTISE: Executive Leadership Multimillion-dollar Revenue Growth Sales Operations Management Business Development Account Management Budget Administration Business & Culture Transformation Organizational Change Management Negotiation Strategies Market Penetration & Expansion Process & Performance Improvement Staff Leadership & Development C-Suite & Cross-functional Communications