Sandy Zhen

Recruiting & Coaching by Zhen Inc

Founder & Sales Recruiter (US & Canada only)

MeazureUp

Sales hire #2 while joining company as employee #14
Sold to mid market & enterprise segment, large chain businesses across Canada & the U.S

Account Executive

Ritual.co

#1 AE ranking among a team of 9 account executives 
Broke company record of most closed won deals in month of October 2020, 420% above quota. 
Acting as a quasi-sales manager to other AEs
Major contributions in sales playbook & cold calling scripts 
Mentored and coached incoming sales hires 
Acted as the liaison between the sales function and product & marketing team

Jobillico | You'll be happier

Jobillico is a recruitment network partnered with Google Jobs and the Canadian Job Bank to create a better match between companies and job seekers. My role is to entice HR professionals to complement their existing hiring tools with the platform that is home to 10,000 hiring companies and 3 million job seekers. 

- Prospecting with inbound leads provided by marketing research team 
- Self initiated 30% of leads through research
- Average of 80-100 outbound calls / day to qualify leads  
- Book appointments for the Account Executive team 
- Average of 45-60 appointments booked per month

Sales Development Specialist

HomeStars

HomeStars is a network for homeowners to post reviews for contractors, separating the best businesses from the worst. I worked with service professionals in the home industry to build their reputation online with their past customer reviews. Happy to have served 120+ clients among small, medium and enterprise businesses to improve their SEO, advertise through word of mouth and generate more work projects! 

- Products; Brand Builder Program & Lead Driver Program 
- Prospecting; average of 100 outbound calls / day to find potential clients                      
- Educate clients on word of mouth advertising through reviews on HomeStars.com 
- full cycle sales from prospecting, closing & providing tips to succeed on platform
- Upsell subscription services with add-ons
- Negotiating subscription prices using least amount of discounting possible 
- Annual attainment of 122% above target

Virgin Mobile Canada

Acting Manager

Top Performers Award Winner (Presidents Club)

Worked for one of Canada's best cellular services provider, a Bell company. Every day my duties included helping members with their account inquiries, billing issues, technical errors and sold cellular devices, home internet and new rate plans. 

- Educate new customers on the Virgin Mobile LTE network 
- New activation monthly attainment 100-135% 
- Review existing customer accounts & discussed renewal options 
- Upgrade sales monthly attainment 150-200%
- Upsell & cross-sell to exceed multiple metrics of accessories and warranties 
- Resolve customer complaints & discovering sales opportunities in difficult situations 
- Member Experience follow up; Ensure customer satisfaction through callbacks while pitching additional products 
- Cold called customer database to generate in-store traffic & referrals 
- Mentored and trained new hires
- National recognition for best member experience through customer surveys
- Consistently remained in Canada's top 2% best sales rep

Retail Sales Consultant

Cash management
Sell bank accounts, credit cards & travel insurance 
Promote RBC Mortgages & refer to mortgage specialists
Provide preliminary advice on diverse investments & referred clients to financial advisors

Client Service Representative

WOW! mobile boutique

Sell mobile devices and monthly rate plans for Koodo, Fido, Rogers & Telus 
New activation & renewal sales 
Post-Sale Calls - checking in with customers regarding purchases and in-store experiences

Sales Representative

Wilfrid Laurier University

Research Assistance in departments of social and developmental psychology 

- Aided graduate students with literature reviews 
- Conducted social experiments & data analyses 
- Brainstormed methods to recruit participants 
- Coordinate schedules for research studies 
- Tutored students in social psychology & statistics 
- Proctored 2-3 exams/ semester

Research And Teaching Assistant

ACTV8 Marketing

Encourage customers to apply for the President's Choice Financial Mastercard 
Attach balance protection plans to sales

Contact: sandy@recruitingcoachingbyzhen.com

Recruiting - I recruit top sales talent for companies across Canada & the U.S. I have a successful track record of placing SDRs and AEs into companies within 30 days. DM me to inquire about having me assist with finding rock star talent. 


My Super Powers: Mentoring & Connecting People
📌[MENTORSHIP/SALES ADVICE]  
Being in sales for 5+ years, I still have so much to learn but have a hand full of tips and tricks that keeps me employed in the sales tech space. Happy to mentor any emerging sales professionals or trade sales secrets with veterans 🙋🏻‍♀️ 🌟 
[INTRODUCTIONS TO PEOPLE IN MY NETWORK]
📌 I genuinely enjoy connecting people with each other to further their possible synergies. Happy to make someone’s day by introducing you to someone that could help your professional or personal goals 

🚀 [FUTURE GOALS] 🚀 
My ultimate goal is to be a founder of my own software company one day. In the past 4 years, I have been qualitatively designing a sales training software. I often day dream about the day it launches and the number of sales professionals it can help! With this goal, networking to build a large following on Linkedin is important. I help as many people as I can to curate relationships and connections that will aid my software launch in the future. Super open to connect and chat with anyone in various industries, roles or backgrounds. I am open minded to talk to anyone as I love creating opportunities. Firm believer in an equal give and take interaction to network. The best way to network is to help people. 🙏🏻

I love sales, entrepreneurship and all things that fall under hustles 💪🏻 much enjoy meeting new people and discovering their passions as well. what’s your passion? Let’s connect and chat (I accept all invites)

Rapid Recon

Regional Sales Manager

Vehlo

Vehlo acquired Velocity automotive in 2023 

Regional Sales Manager for Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire and New Mexico 
 
Responsibilities include planning, implementing and managing lead generation. 

Scoping logos, cultivating business and closing deals.

Managing client’s expectations during implementation 30-90 days

90 day deal cycles

Trade shows, events and traveling for in person meetings

Handling multiple channels web leads, industry referrals and inbound inquiries

Regional Sales Manager AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, UT, WA, WY

Velocity Automotive

- 300% to Quota in December my 3rd month on the team (Top AE in direct sales)

- Led the team in sales last month (January 2023) my 4th month as well.

- Developed GTM strategy due to no inbound leads provided by the company.

- Developed my own process using outreach tools like Source whale, and Hubspot to generate business.

- Writing email campaigns, cold calling, and social selling are how I make it happen.

Nextiva

- Generated over 18,864,000 Million in ARR since 2018
- Won over 3000 accounts in 18
- Exceeded goal
- Promoted to AE III 
- Q1 2021 Quote to Sale 65%
- #1 in segment July 22
- Q2 78% Quote to sale
- In August 22 closed I closed 52 self generated referrals
- Q2 Lead 2 Sale 63%
- 2022 80% quote to sale
- 2022 70% lead to quote

Senior Account Executive III

Simplifying Business Communication
-#1 in segment July 2022
- 150% to goal @Q1 2022
- Closed >100 referrals Q2 2022
-73% quote to close 2022
-61% lead to close 2022
- >128% + to GOAL 2018-2019 
-> 51% Lead to Sale 70% Quote to Close 2nd Qtr 2020
- > 155% to GOAL May 2020
- >123% to GOAL June 2020
-> 150% to GOAL July 2020 71% quote to close and 45.5% lead to close
-> 117% to GOAL August 2020
- >53% quote to close 2018 - 2019
- Goal increases month over month up to 25% on a sliding scale 24 month ramp
- Meets or Exceeded Expectations 80% of the time month over month
- Move small, mid market and enterprise accounts start to finish 30 - 90 day sales cycles on average 
- Manage multiple channels chat, live transfers, in house website quote requests, and purchased SaaS leads 
- Forged referral partnerships with MSP’s to generate supplemental revenue 
- Facilitated full sales cycle from RFP to PO completion, worked with engineering to demo products on conference calls with executives
- worked with legal and billing to facilitate contract demands for SLA’s, turndown clauses and seasonal accounts including non profits for billing tax exemptions
- manage clients expectations during implementation and on boarding up to 120 days for enterprise accounts 
- generates add on and cross sale revenue through diligent follow up and working closely with client success account manager team to meet client needs
- closed master accounts with multiple locations large scale implementations
- $400,200 ARR monthly goal increased to 480k 2022

Spectrum

- 200 % to goal year over year 
- Top producer on team from month one
- Team Lead
- Mid Market specialist
- 30 to 90 day sales cycle
- Cultivate referral partnerships with IT MSP’s , and existing customers

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