Salesforce Effectiveness
We assist management teams in developing an effective sales engine, including:
- Strategy: Articulated and agreed-to sales strategy outlining explicit objectives, success measures, and winning selling proposition
- Organization: Salesforce capability to best execute the strategy and compensation systems that align to create right motivation
- Process: Disciplined fact-based processes to accelerate and increase success of sales cycle
- Tools: Adequate tools/systems to provide proper monitoring and feedback
Establishing “One Company” Organization and Operations to Realize Cost Synergies at Direct Marketing Services Company
Conducted a 5-week operations diagnostic of a recently acquired portfolio company to identify cost reduction opportunities and establish organizational and operations end-visions. Gotham undertook an extensive analytic effort to reconcile and align data from 3 separate, independently operating systems corresponding to each business unit and create in-depth profiles of purchasing spend and labor efficiency. We also identified opportunities to improve salesforce effectiveness, including salesforce restructuring and a new compensation system. Finally, working with management, Gotham developed a “One Company” organizational structure to eliminate disconnect and facilitate savings opportunity capture within and among the 3 business units. Following the diagnostic, management launched efforts to capture these opportunities, which were expected to improve the company’s EBITDA margins by 6+ percentage points.
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Dissecting Job Profitability and Redesigning Commission Structure to Improve EBITDA Margins at Professional Staffing Company
Conducted a 4-week operations assessment to establish levers to turn around the company’s EBITDA margin performance: 1) dissected the company’s cost and job performance, by cleaning/reconciling raw data from disjointed staffing and ERP software systems, mapping detailed general ledger costs to jobs, and creating job profitability profiles; 2) redesigned sales and recruiting commission structure for a 25% improvement in EBITDA; and 3) developed robust KPI-based reports required for managing cost and profitability moving forward.
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Growth Roadmap and Sales Function Redesign to Triple Revenue at Global Flow Control Products Distributor
Developed growth strategy and identified levers to triple revenue in 3-5 years. Developed detailed prioritized plans to implement the new strategy. Created sales force effectiveness plan to professionalize inside sales and develop outside sales force.
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Instilling Process Discipline Required for Future Growth While Sustaining Performance-oriented Culture at Entrepreneurial Specialty Engineering Services Firm
Conducted operational due diligence to assess the firm’s prospect-to-cash cycle processes and establish a revenue forecasting approach. Our effort included: building a robust fact base of the company’s cost and operational performance using data from ERP and offline database; mapping and assessing sales & marketing, revenue generation, and people management processes; and visiting/interviewing management across multiple offices. Gotham provided an explicit top-level operations end-vision and value creation plan bolstering the company’s ability to support growth, giving our client the necessary confidence to successfully complete negotiations.
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