Luis Vázquez appointed Group Vice President for Avon's global sales team
LONDON, July 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Avon
Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP), a global leader in beauty direct
selling, today announces that Luis Vázquez has been appointed to
lead its global sales team. This vital role that will see him
spearheading the company's efforts to open up growth by driving
recruitment, retention and training for the millions of
Avon Representatives across the
world.
Luis has extensive direct selling experience and joins
Avon from Herbalife's North America business. He spent 11 years of
his career there most recently as Vice President: Sales and
Marketing
During his time at Herbalife, Luis led successive growth and
transformation projects, including driving a double-digit sales
turnaround in the business' North
America arm, as well as delivering a digitally focused,
segmented approach to better support Herbalife's distributor
network. Prior to his work in North
America, Luis worked in both South and Central America in business development and
business transformation roles.
Miguel Fernandez, Avon's Global President comments:
"I am delighted that Luis is joining Avon in this strategically important role for
the company. He will be focused on the transformation of
Avon's end-to-end Representative
experience and help lead the drive to effectively use data and
insights. This work will mean we are able to better deliver a truly
tailored approach ensuring we can effectively help all our
Representatives grow their business, whatever their earnings
ambitions are."
Luis will also lead the continued development of Avon's Representative Academy which provides
tailored digital training content. All content will be segmented
according to the level of earnings that Avon's beauty entrepreneurs seek to make.
Avon's beauty fans (those
Representatives who love Avon's
products and sell to friends and family), and Beauty Entrepreneurs
(those Representatives who want to build a more meaningful earnings
opportunity) will receive training relevant to them, and how they
run their businesses.
Luis commented: "I am excited to be joining Avon at such an important time in its history.
I am passionate about supporting Representatives through every part
of their journey and am looking forward to delivering tools and
training that will support them, their teams and their
customers."
About Avon Products Inc.
For 130 years Avon has stood for women: providing
innovative, quality beauty products which are primarily sold to
women, through women. Millions of independent sales
Representatives across the world sell iconic Avon brands such as
Avon Color and ANEW through their social networks, building their
own beauty businesses on a full- or part-time basis.
Avon supports women's empowerment,
entrepreneurship and well-being and has donated over $1billion to women's causes through Avon and the Avon Foundation. Learn more
about Avon and its products at
www.avonworldwide.com. #stand4Her
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