Top-performing sales, marketing, and business development professional with proven ability to drive business expansion through aggressive sales initiatives that deliver revenue growth, market share, and market penetration. Strategic thinker who can plan and implement sales, marketing, and business initiatives to support corporate objectives. Particularly strong relationship management, team building, and general business acumen; verifiable track record of success driving unprecedented revenue and profitability gains within highly competitive organizations, industries, and markets. Ambitious, aggressive, and intensely focused on bottom-line results.
FUNCTIONAL STRENGTHS:
Analytical, innovative and disciplined; proven ability to establish optimal sales strategies; technically competent at resolving problems by introducing innovative solutions and cost effective methods; adept in understanding how to positively influence processes.
LEADERSHIP ABILITIES:
Ability to communicate effectively with employees and management at all levels; proficient in bridging gaps between various processes; bottom-line oriented with managed risk taking abilities; align and lead the organization towards its Vision
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Effective negotiator, ability to combine broad-based technical and business knowledge to optimize results, ability to accommodate multiple demands in parallel; ability to effectively manage challenging situations
ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTES:
Health Insurance Technology / SAAS (Software As A Service) Positioning / Cloud Computing / Business Analytics / Business Intelligence / Human Capital Management / HR & Payroll / Competitive Intelligence / Strategic Marketing / Broad-Territory Management Expertise / Industry Trends Analysis / Branding / Brand Preference & Awareness
Director, Employer Sales @ Benefitfocus is a leading provider of benefits technology. More than 20 million consumers manage all types of benefits in the Benefitfocus Cloud. By delivering technology that integrates all benefits in one place, Benefitfocus provides a better way to engage consumers, educate employees and simplify benefit enrollment and management.
Shop, Enroll, Manage and Exchange
The BENEFITFOCUS® Platform provides employers, insurance carriers, consumers and government entities with cloud-based technology to shop, enroll, manage and exchange benefits information. Benefitfocus clients include small, medium and large employers from all industries, as well as the nation’s top insurance companies.
The Benefitfocus Platform provides:
Enrollment for more than 100 types of benefits
Plan shopping, consumer engagement and education
HR management and reporting tools
Defined contribution support
Private and public exchanges
Sales automation and underwriting
Online bill presentment and payment
Data exchange and payroll integration
Apps for voluntary benefits, finance, wellness and more
Benefitfocus Technology
Benefitfocus is dedicated to design and engineering, and our technology is built with the consumer in mind. The Benefitfocus Platform is cloud-based, and with multiple releases a year, we respond quickly to industry changes, new legislation and the evolving business needs of our clients. From April 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Senior Consultant of Business Services - National Accounts @ Introduce Paylocity's Fully integrated Payroll/HRIS/Benefits Administration Solution delivered via SaaS to national account prospects, create needs via a value based sales approach utilizing both COL & VITO sales Strategies, Interface with C-Level Executives on a daily basis, Maintain current client relationships while establishing new client relationships, consistently evaluating regional trends and product strategies, promoting new products, maintaining close interaction with client services to ensure client satisfaction. From April 2009 to April 2013 (4 years 1 month) Consultant of Business Services @ Market Human Capital Management Solutions to clients with 300-1500 employees, create needs via a value based sales approach utilizing both COL & VITO sales Strategies, Interface with C-Level Executives on a daily basis, Maintain current client relationships while establishing new client relationships, consistently evaluating regional trends and product strategies, promoting new products, maintaining close interaction with client services to ensure client satisfaction. From January 2007 to April 2009 (2 years 4 months) Partner/Owner @ Start up PEO/ASO. Market PEO and ASO service primarily to clients with 50 plus employees, created and currently manage internal and external sales force of 8 sales executives. Maintain current client relationships while establishing new client relationships, consistently evaluating regional trends and product strategies, promoting new products, maintaining close interaction with client services to ensure client satisfaction. From March 2005 to January 2007 (1 year 11 months) HRO Business Consultant/Regional Sales Manager @ Market Outsourced Human Resource Solutions via a PEO/Co-employer relationship to clients with 50-1000 employees, create needs via a value based sales approach utilizing both COL & VITO sales Strategies, Interface with C-Level Executives on a daily basis, Maintain current client relationships while establishing new client relationships, consistently evaluating regional trends and product strategies, promoting new products, maintaining close interaction with client services to ensure client satisfaction. Managed sales force of 5 sales executives. From January 2000 to February 2005 (5 years 2 months)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark From 1985 to 1988 Kean UniversityHS Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program @ Elizabeth High School From 1981 to 1985 Hamilton Middle School Louis J Reale is skilled in: Highly-motivated, High Performer, Solution-oriented, Complex Sales, Charismatic, Seasoned, Relationship Driven, Strategic Consulting, Consultative Style, Computer-savvy, Self-driven, Salesforce.com, Drive Results, Exceeding Quotas, Consistency