Christine Dangelo Meehan

Sales Motivator & Mentor

A results-oriented executive with excellent strategic and analytical skills. Extensive experience in sales, retail, marketing, education planning, merchandising, relationships, forecasting and developing high performance sales and education teams.

Your very personal care for exceptional hair. Identify new business development in the market. Provide customized account support for existing accounts. Identify opportunities and implement systems to improve performance and profitability. Development of an in-salon program-identifying stylists with high Kerastase sales to act as a liaison between the brand and the salon staff. This program being recognized as the Brand Ambassador Program. Managing all budgets, travel and expense, education, and sales.

Identify, Launch and Manage Salon Business in the US and Canada. Education and Marketing Curriculums to drive business. Creating a front desk and sales support program to have a more scientific approach with the MIT patented technology advantage.

Manage and support the training, development, and profitability or retail partners-Blue Mercury, Neiman Marcus, Space NK, Nordstrom, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, and Cos-Bar. Also responsible for coaching and developing the product knowledge trainers. Strategic calendar management to assist in under performing territories.

Negotiations of all product sell ins with buying office for 2 retailers. (Lord and Taylor and Filenes) Worked to create successful sales and stock plans, with product placement per location. Senior management presentation quarterly-customized based on specific needs and demographics. Product knowledge trainings. Management of team of Account Coordinators per retailer and development per their strength for either education or sales. Co-management and hiring of counter teams at store level. Talent plus testing of each candidate per Lauder corporation standards to ensure a cohesive team.

Oversee and develop four departments hair, nails, skin and beauty. Identify, hire and onboard all new employees and support and manage existing employees. Manage service sales and product sales. Identify opportunities and discuss opportunities with Spa Director to increase performance and profitability.

Managed national accounts, spa business and specialty accounts. Trained and onboarded new employees. Worked with national account store events and in house makeup artists to maximize sales potential. Created a need for master classes, great success in the store environment, but greater success in the spa and free standing speciality accounts. Actually brought me great notarity which provided me the offer at Canyon Ranch.