Samuel Thuo

Background

About Samuel Thuo

I am a Sales & Marketing professional passionate about making companies grow and attain their objectives through the implementation of strategic sales and marketing programs. Working at Diageo, formerly EABL, has exposed me to skills and competencies like improving internal processes and sales & marketing strategy, research, projects and operations management, key accounts management, and coming up with high growth strategies. Passion, focus, steadfastness, intensity, curiosity, impatience (when necessary) and being fiercely loyal are all the characteristics that have enabled me to achieve success inside and outside the office. I am an exceptional communicator with strong negotiation, problem resolution, and analytical consumers needs assessment aptitude. Equally effective at identifying opportunities, developing focus, and providing tactical business solutions. Some Key Achievements- • Managed Sales Unit budget for all sales unit plans driving positive ROI for 80% of activities conducted. • Successfully operated as Intelligence chief for competition and designed trade programs to counter competition which led to growth of market share from 94% to 95%. • Rolled out distributor sales crew incentive paying out over KES 50 million.