Area Sale Manager Interview Question:

As you know we are a fast moving company and things are always changing, how do you think you will fit in with our ever changing and fast paced environment?

Submitted by: Muhammad

Our company has 20 field sales reps and they need to receive their email on the cell phone. This is something the IT department knows little about and has never supported mobile devices for a variety of reasons. The request came down from the president and we needed to make this happen immediately.

I was out of my element on this one and knew little about the subject, but I was assigned the entire task with a short deadline. So I researched the various technologies that would support our needs, tested several of them and after 3 weeks of hard work I presented my findings to the sales department and allowed them to make a decision on one of the three options.

Once they accepted, I soon got to work and within two weeks every sales person could now retrieve their mail from their cell phone any where in the world.

It was a huge undertaking and we soon learned that sales went up 11% and that growth has been directly attributed to the success of this project because sales could now provide a faster response to our customers.
Submitted by: Muhammad