Customer Manager for Natural Grocers, Fresh Thyme, and Nat Channel Independents across the General Mills Nat Org foods portfolio. Managed $25MM sales portfolio and associated trade. Over-delivered volume while driving cat-expanding distribution and spearheading digital and in store events at Nat Grocers and Fresh Thyme.

• Manage sales and merch support for National SV account worth $350MM across all GMI businesses.• Coordination of Joint Business Planning and PVA tracking across all SV Regions• Manager of team working cross functionally with SV as well as internally on GMI Cereal, Yogurt, and NatOrg business units

• Created a comprehensive category growth story with brand new insights to grow consumption and enhance the consumer’s interaction with the Cereal category• Customized and presented distribution, pricing, and display strategies for key accounts, including Albertsons/Safeway, Meier, Amazon, Walgreens, SuperValu, and key eastern retailers

Sales and merchandising planning and analysis for national SuperValu team across all General Mills Categories.

•Manage trade processing for US Foodservice and other national distributors.•Responsible for daily process support, training and documentation for team of 10 in US and 25 in Mumbai.•Point of contact for all system related issues as well as cross functional questions and projects.•Manage the workload of multiple offshore teams while leading extensive cross functional work with Trade managers, field sales, and IS on ongoing projects.•Analyze and solve real time system issues to determine root cause and fix with outside vendor.

•Managed all General Mills trade for US Foodservice and DOT Foodservice.•Developed & streamlined processing to transition to Mumbai team.•Created template process to allow Mumbai team to communicate to field sales for processing direction.

•Responsible for managing orders for all Sysco NE OpCos and RDC, including specialty pricing documentation and communication.•Awarded Sysco Central PA Dry Supplier of the year.•Implemented ORTEC truckload efficiency ordering system with SYSCO RDC.

•Managed trade accounts for Midwest customers. •Travelled to customer for one on one assistance to update and correct trade systems.•Created VSM for USF invoice processing on Trade desks.

•Responsible for the hiring and management of 20 student workers.

•Updated Broker – Dealer compliance manuals•Created an online communication plan for compliance manuals•Compiled information for NASD Inquiry