Ideal Industries Appoints New Key Account Manager

Bill Stephens, National Sales and Marketing Manager at IDEAL INDUSTRIES (CANADA), CORP. is pleased to announce the promotion of Heather Jackson to Key Account Manager. In her new role, Heather will be responsible for the sales, sales planning, marketing and relationship management of a number of our leading distributors.

With over ten plus years in the industry, Heather has garnered strong relationships with our distributors and our customers.

Throughout her three and a half years here at IDEAL as our Assistant Product Manager, Heather has continually gone above and beyond her call of duty, from her total rework of the official Canadian website, promotions, sales reporting to customer relationships. Heather will continue to work with her team of Area Sales Managers to ensure superior customer service to our distributor partners and end-user customers.

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