Hi, I’m
DESMOND STEPHEN
Adamawa
Summary
High-achieving Senior Sales Executive with drive and expertise to handle any sales challenge. Dedicated to consistently surpassing quotas and diligently pursuing and converting new leads to enhance revenue streams. Energetic and committed to top performance with focus on improved agricultural practices, increasing yields and diversification of livelihood.
Overview
8
years of professional experience
Work History
UN IOM KAP
FIELD INVESTIGATOR
12.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Nasarawa State
- Improve capacity of authorities in north-east, north-central, and Northwest states of Nigeria, to acquire capacity and skills to identify victims of trafficking, prevent, investigate, and respond to GBV including risk mitigation, TIP, and safe guarding, in line with minimum standards
- To ascertain Law Enforcement's Responsiveness and Accountability to Gender Based Violence in Kaduna, Nasarawa, and Plateau states
- To identify existing knowledge gaps, attitudes, cultural beliefs, behavioral patterns, and practices that create barriers to contribute to GBV and TIP response in IDP settings effectively
- To clearly guide project implementation team on how best to achieve project's KPIs and positively impact three new states approach
- Improved team efficiency by training and mentoring individuals through diligent team meetings and setting goals.
SPRINGFIELD AGRO LTD
Senior Sales Executive
04.2017 - Current
Job overview
- State
- Boosted profitability by launching multiple marketing initiatives based on proven strategies
- Spearheaded multiple high-quality marketing campaigns to increase brand recognition among key audiences
- Facilitate good working relationship between State, LGAs, community level stakeholders and target beneficiaries
- Participate in regular internal and external coordination meeting for program at LGA and State levels when required
- Assisting in and supervising procurement of goods and services and other procurement activities
- Performed corporate training procedures to educate farmers on new innovations of agro chemicals and how to identify good markets for quality products
- Managed full sales lifecycle for 30 accounts
- Outperformed revenue targets by effectively applying value wedge and rapport building sales techniques
- Analyzed market trends in consumer industries to implement appropriate marketing and sales methods
- Identify new markets with aim of contributing to overall programme strategy
- Implemented proven networking methods to build strong working relationships with sales team and management
- Shaped sales approaches to individual clients, facilitating relationships with customers and driving revenue to over 500,000,000 naira
CRUDAN/OXFAMSONG
Field Officer
09.2016 - 03.2018
Job overview
- Design, develop and continuously update project, M&E, monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators' progresses, impact measurement tools and systems
- Coordinate collection, compilation, consolidation and analysis of data to track programs/project activities
- Monitor progress and support impact KAP measurement
- Conduct development research, generate lessons learn from previous projects
- Prepare M&E plans for sectors/grants
- Establishing and ensuring better data management systems for core program
- Ensuring proper and timely implementation of all program activities and raise red flags where necessary
- Developing Terms of Reference, which include survey plan, tool, budget, logistics and take lead in about 17 assessment such as Needs, Baseline, End line, KAP, PDM and their data cleaning, analyses and produce reports
- Ensure existence of accountability mechanisms and devise a strategy for program staff participation in M&E activities
- Generate purchase request, payment request on BVA for all program activities
- Build capacity of PLW income groups on selected enterprises in LGA
- Identify, establish and mentor VSLA groups for sustained household income
- Monitor VSLA group performance and provide technical support on their operations
- Document and share best practices of VSLA in targeted LGA for further learning
- Linking of PLW to existing VSLA in different wards in LGA.
Education
FEDEARL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
A-Levels from AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
04.2019
UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI
MSc
10.2012
ST. PETERS SEMINARY
Agric
06.2005
Skills
- Good community and mobilization skills
- Good time management skills with ability to handle multiple priorities in fast-paced environment
- Proactive, resourceful, solutions oriented and results-oriented
- Excellent organization, planning and analytical skills; detail oriented
- Excellent communication, writing and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated strength in relationship management
- Experience in group development strengthening
- Ability and desire to work well with diverse employees and customers in cooperative and friendly manner
- Computer application skills
Timeline
FIELD INVESTIGATOR
UN IOM KAP
12.2021 - Current
Senior Sales Executive
SPRINGFIELD AGRO LTD
04.2017 - Current
Field Officer
CRUDAN/OXFAM
09.2016 - 03.2018
FEDEARL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
A-Levels from AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI
MSc
ST. PETERS SEMINARY
Agric
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