The Newest Ambler: Christian Rawles

In a few weeks we’ll be welcoming Christian Rawles to our team. Christian will be our Sales Manager, joining Dave Bartholomew in designing and implementing our new sales strategy.

We want to have the strongest sales force and the best customer service in the business. Christian and Dave are ideally suited to make that happen.

We received over 200 applications for this position and many were very, very strong candidates, making the selection process luxuriously challenging.  We considered many and interviewed several, and we found just the right fit with Christian.

Why Christian?

Christian has worked with us before. For two years, he did an incredible job of reorganizing and running our production and logistics. Christian is incredibly reliable and a multi-talented learning machine. We’re very happy to have him back, especially in such a key position.

Christian understands Ambler, our style, our aspirations, our product, and our customers. He will expand our capabilities without changing our flavour.

So everyone please welcome Christian Rawles (back) to the team!

3 comments ↓

#1 Jason Billing on 04.22.09 at 4:41 pm

If you want to have good customer service, than you should consider actually responding to warranty concerns from customers. I bought a very nice ambler hat that developed a gaping hole at the top after a short time. I returned it to the store I bought it at for warranty and after 2 months there was no response from ambler, no reply, no warranty return, which I found hard to believe as ambler is a canmore based company and all you had to do was swing by the shop on the way home from work to pick it up and have a look at it. The shop I bought it from ended up just giving me a new hat, but I doubt that you gave them a credit. Prompt action on legit warranties = a repeat customer. No action means I buy a nice looking hat from one of the hundred other companies out there.

#2 Scott on 04.22.09 at 5:00 pm

@Jason: Sorry to hear that, Jason. To be honest, I’m the guy that must have dropped the ball, but I don’t remember being notified about it.

If you returned it to the store, are you sure that we were contacted? Or was this when you were working at Valhalla? Did you contact us yourself? If so, please let me know who you talked to, and I’ll look into it.

I must say that what disappoints me most is that I’ve run into you several times around town and the climbing gym these past few months and you’ve never mentioned it. How am I supposed to help if I don’t know that there’s a problem?

I’ll call you to discuss this further.

#3 Scott on 04.22.09 at 5:10 pm

@Jason: I just left you a quick voicemail and talked to the store. We definitely issued them a credit, but you’re right, it did take too long to resolve it. My apologies for the inconvenience.

If you’d like to discuss it further, please give me a call. Cheers.

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