Brian Baur

Vice President of Sales & Customer Care

Sales Strategy Development

  • Develop and execute the overarching sales strategy to achieve targets across all divisions, including maintenance, treatments, and landscape construction services.

Sales Goal Oversight and Forecasting

  • Oversee a structured sales team with individual sales goals.
  • Monitor and report daily, weekly, and monthly sales performance to ensure alignment with sales targets and company objectives.
  • Review sales pipelines regularly to track proposal opportunities, address missed deals, and proactively manage proposal flow to achieve targets.

Customer Care Leadership

  • Lead and manage the customer care department to ensure seamless client onboarding, effective communication, and outstanding service delivery.
  • Focus on building long-term customer satisfaction and improving retention through proactive leadership.

Collaboration with Operations

  • Foster a strong partnership between sales and operations to ensure cohesive service delivery.
  • Resolve client concerns by working directly with operations to implement best practices and refine processes for greater efficiency.

Training, Development, and Improvement Systems

  • Plan and implement comprehensive training programs for both sales and client care teams, from onboarding to advanced skills development.
  • Collect feedback from staff and clients to identify areas for improvement and continuously enhance training and processes.
  • Conduct regular performance audits to ensure accountability, profitability, and skill elevation across the team.

Performance Metrics Management

  • Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track sales, crew efficiency, client satisfaction and service quality.
  • Use data-driven insights to set team benchmarks and identify opportunities for improvement.

Client Relationship Management

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients to enhance long-term retention.
  • Proactively resolve client concerns and identify upselling and cross-selling opportunities to provide additional value and grow revenue.

Marketing and Sales Collaboration

  • Collaborate with the marketing team to align sales strategies with marketing campaigns and materials, creating cohesive customer messaging and maximizing reach.
  • Understand campaign effectiveness, and monitor ROI, sharing updates with team.
  • Plan and execute theme-based campaigns (e.g., “We LOVE Our Clients” for Valentine’s Day etc), preparing teams to participate in strategic marketing efforts.
  • Use marketing strategies as a growth engine by fostering collaboration between the sales and marketing teams to achieve measurable outcomes.

Accountability and Conflict Resolution Framework

  • Create and maintain accountability structures to track progress toward sales and customer care goals and ensure timely and effective team performance.
  • Manage and resolve escalated client-related issues promptly to maintain customer relationships.

Capacity Planning and Client Communication

  • Collaborate with scheduling and operations teams to accurately plan workforce capacity.

Job Costing Ownership

  • Streamline the job costing process into a single ownership framework, centralizing efforts currently divided among various team members.
  • Track key metrics—including Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), labor efficiency, and budget vs. actual audits—to enhance financial performance and operations.
  • Promote pre- and post-job analytics to document successes, assess challenges, and improve future job estimates.
  • Transition estimating practices toward a preventative strategy to anticipate and address profitability issues before they arise.