John Benjamin

Background

About John Benjamin

Dynamic Sales Leader with 13 years of Sales & Marketing experience with Global Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods companies. John has a demonstrated track record of progressive growth and increasing responsibilities in the Sales Leadership and Commercial Development capacities. John's key areas of strength are: • Leadership & Talent Development – Views the act of leadership as a responsibility. Takes significant pride in individual and team development. Has significant experience in successfully leading diverse teams to achieve commercial KPI targets and personal development goals. • Account Management - Fosters and maintains collaborative relationships with customers. Identifies opportunities and promotes business growth through a shared understanding of mutual business goals. • Selling with Insights - Develops and delivers compelling presentations from key insights that effectively influences or changes behavior to achieve desired results. • Joint Business Planning - Facilitates, develops and implements comprehensive business building plans aligning with organizational growth objectives and customer needs and goals. • Negotiation Skills - Develops creative solutions to resolve challenging situations and/or social styles to achieve alignment on desired business results. • Execution Excellence – Executes business strategies, initiatives, and programs with customers at all levels with velocity and impact. • Financial Acumen & Management - Understands and applies internal and external business drivers, strategies, metrics, and budgeting to produce profitable business results. • Cross-Functional Resourcing – Successfully navigates matrix organizational structures. Leverages interdependencies of cross-functional stakeholders to optimize business performance.