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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Interests
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Abiodun Olokode

Sales And Account Executive Manager
Lagos Island,Lagos

Summary

Account and Sales Manager with over 5 years of successful experience in Sales and Marketing. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in ICT industry. Strengths in Problem solving and Critical thinking backed by training in Accounting and Business Management. A focused and success driven individual with a can-do mindset and winning mentality.

Overview

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Languages
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Certifications
17
17
years of post-secondary education
7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Sales and Marketing Manager (SMC)

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
Lekki, Lagos
06.2020 - Current
  • Promoting the company's existing brands and introducing new products to the market.
  • Analyzing budgets, preparing annual budget plans, scheduling expenditures, and ensuring that the sales team meets their quotas and goals.
  • Researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans, understanding consumer requirements, identifying market trends, and suggesting system improvements to achieve the company's marketing goals.
  • Implementing new sales plans and advertising.
  • Recruiting, training, scheduling, coaching, and managing marketing and sales teams to meet sales and marketing objectives.
  • Maintaining relationships with important clients by making regular visits, understanding their needs, and anticipating new marketing opportunities.
  • Staying current in the industry by attending educational opportunities, conferences, and workshops, reading publications, and maintaining personal and professional networks.
  • Conduct market research to identify selling possibilities and evaluate customer needs.
  • Supervising the activities to seek out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media.
  • Set up meetings with potential clients and listen to their wishes and concerns.
  • Prepare and deliver appropriate presentations on various solutions and services.
  • Create frequent reviews and reports with sales and financial data.
  • Ensure the availability of Solutions for sales and demonstrations.
  • Participate on behalf of the company in exhibitions or conferences.
  • Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections.
  • Collaborate with team members to achieve better results.
  • Gather feedback from customers or prospects and share with internal Team.

Account Marketing and Sales Manager

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
Lekki, Lagos
02.2019 - 07.2020
  • Promoting the company's existing brands and introducing new products to the market.
  • Analyzing budgets, preparing annual budget plans, scheduling expenditures, and ensuring that the sales team meets their quotas and goals.
  • Researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans, understanding consumer requirements, identifying market trends, and suggesting system improvements to achieve the company's marketing goals.
  • Gathering, investigating, and summarizing market data and trends to draft reports.
  • Implementing new sales plans and advertising.
  • Recruiting, training, scheduling, coaching, and managing marketing and sales teams to meet sales and marketing objectives.
  • Maintaining relationships with important clients by making regular visits, understanding their needs, and anticipating new marketing opportunities.
  • Staying current in the industry by attending educational opportunities, conferences, and workshops, reading publications, and maintaining personal and professional networks.

Sales Executive

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
Lekki, Lagos
01.2018 - 03.2019

· Conduct market research to identify selling possibilities and evaluate customer needs.

· Actively seek out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media

· Set up meetings with potential clients and listen to their wishes and concerns.

· Prepare and deliver appropriate presentations on various solutions and services.

· Create frequent reviews and reports with sales and financial data.

· Ensure the availability of Solutions for sales and demonstrations.

· Participate on behalf of the company in exhibitions or conferences.

· Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections.

· Collaborate with team members to achieve better results.

· Gather feedback from customers or prospects and share with internal Team.

Sales Representative

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
Lekki, Lagos
03.2016 - 03.2018
  • Generating leads.
  • Meeting or exceeding sales goals.
  • Negotiating all contracts with prospective clients.
  • Helping determine pricing schedules for quotes, promotions, and negotiations.
  • Preparing weekly and monthly reports.
  • Giving sales presentations to a range of prospective clients.
  • Coordinating sales efforts with marketing programs.
  • Understanding and promoting company programs.
  • Obtaining deposits and balance of payment from clients.
  • Preparing and submitting sales contracts for orders.
  • Visiting clients and potential clients to evaluate needs or promote products and services.
  • Maintaining client records.
  • Answering client questions about credit terms, products, prices, and availability.

Sales Representative

MDM Communications
Ilorin, Kwara
03.2014 - 02.2015
  • Maintaining a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers always.
  • Responding promptly to customer inquiries.
  • Communicating with customers through various channels.
  • Acknowledging and resolving customer complaints.
  • Provide customers with information about products and services.
  • Processing orders, forms, applications, and requests.
  • Keeping records of customer interactions, transactions, comments, and complaints.
  • Communicating and coordinating with my colleagues, as necessary.
  • Providing feedback on the efficiency of the customer service process.
  • Ensure customer satisfaction and provide professional customer support.
  • Elevate complaints to management.
  • Keep track of inventory.
  • Establishing Contact and developing Relationships with Prospects

Education

Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Business Management

University of Abuja, Abuja
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
08.2010 - 09.2015

High School Diploma -

Unilorin Secondary School, Ilorin
Ilorin, Kwara State
03.2003 - 02.2009

GED -

Abdul Aziz Atta Nursery And Primary School, Ilorin
Ilorin, Kwara State
02.1997 - 07.2003

Skills

    Marketing and sales

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Accomplishments

    · Influenced the migration of The Gig Group to the Microsoft Cloud (Azure)

    · Closed out and influenced the migration of about 250users of The Gig Group to the Microsoft365 from G-suite

    · Closed out on the migration of about 100 users of Energia Oil to the Microsoft365

    · Influenced the migration of Swipha Nigeria to the Microsoft365 from Web Mail.

    · Successfully sold the Teleconferencing Device Polycom CX5500 System to Marie Stopes Nigeria

    · Influenced the migration of Fintrack System to LBAN Microsoft Azure CSP

    · Closed out and influenced the sales of 100 Microsoft Enterprise Licenses to Parallex Bank Ltd

    · Closed out and influenced the sales of Microsoft Azure Sentinel for Log analytics and Capacity Reservation to Parallex Bank Ltd

    · Managed and influenced the sales of several hardware and solutions to Toyota Nigeria Ltd.

    · Managed and influenced the sales of a number of hardware and solutions to C and I Leasing

    · Influenced the migration of Chapel Hill Denham to the Microsoft Cloud (Azure)

    · Successfully sold the Microsoft SharePoint rebranding to Axa Mansard Nigeria

    · Influenced the migration of Axa Mansard Nigeria to the Microsoft365

Certification

Kendor Consultant Sales and Marketing Training

Interests

Public Speaking

Mentorship

Reading

Prospecting

Engaging new people

Timeline

Kendor Consultant Sales and Marketing Training

03-2021

Microsoft MySkills4Afrika Project (Key Sales Fundamentals Training)

11-2020

Sales and Marketing Manager (SMC)

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
06.2020 - Current

Account Marketing and Sales Manager

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
02.2019 - 07.2020

Sales Executive

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
01.2018 - 03.2019

Microsoft Office Specialist PowerPoint 2016

06-2017

Sales Representative

Lotus Beta Analytics Nigeria Limited
03.2016 - 03.2018

Microsoft: Interns 4 Africa Sales/Marketing Project

02-2016

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocate

04-2015

Sales Representative

MDM Communications
03.2014 - 02.2015

Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Business Management

University of Abuja, Abuja
08.2010 - 09.2015

High School Diploma -

Unilorin Secondary School, Ilorin
03.2003 - 02.2009

GED -

Abdul Aziz Atta Nursery And Primary School, Ilorin
02.1997 - 07.2003
Abiodun OlokodeSales And Account Executive Manager