Jim Balkonis

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About Jim Balkonis

Commercial Vehicle Industry Executive Currently working as a well-respected commercial vehicle executive with extensive experience leading service operations, change management projects, and launching cutting edge business solutions to drive greater efficiencies, employee engagement and revenues. I am a strong presenter, negotiator, and leader able to build solid relationships with strategic partners and with consensus across multiple organizational levels. Core competencies include: Strategic business planning, Change management, Process development, Budget optimization, Contract negotiation Designated Achievements - Effectively overhauled Crossroads Mobile Maintenance, bringing 100 employees from a negative net profit in 2017 of to a positive net profit in 2019 of Changed a negative and nonproductive culture within Crossroads Mobile Maintenance to a culture with core principles focused on safety, integrity, passion and intelligence- Recruited & managed a senior sales team that helped launch the Navistar 13 Liter engine platform into a mature market segment and achieved over 12% North American market share within the first 3 years of full production- Coordinated & setup customer, dealer, body company and OEM resources at one location to develop a set list of vehicle, equipment requirements that would be used to design, build and manufacture a customer specific vocational vehicle application.