April Rice Email & Phone Number

8 Western States

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Manage 30 sales account representatives across 8 Western States. Continue to build relationships with team members, independent retail grocery store owners, and vendors. Increase sales by problem solving, team building, process and program implementation. Attending meetings to improve processes and team development.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Managed retail sales throughout many independent owners’ grocery stores. Responsible for growing sales with problem solving, analyzing P&L’s, implementing programs and processes to increase stores profitability

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Managed General Merchandise sales and merchandising for 11 store Harmon’s chain. Responsible for resets, new item placement, problem solving, program sales, and customer service. Responsible for implementation of Associated Food Stores/ Harmon’s plan-o-grams and seasonal programs.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Responsible for account management of major General Merchandise lines (Nature’s Bounty, Arrow, Helen of Troy, etc.) to Associated Food Stores, ARS, Ream’s, Harmon’s, Albertson’s, Smith’s, and other regional players. Other responsibilities included setting up promotions, helping create category managed plan-o-grams, managing manufacturer funds, completing resets, new item distribution, and customer service.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Responsible for 15 sales people across Utah, Southern Idaho, and Western Colorado. Managed people, sales, and merchandising of major grocery and general merchandise lines. Other responsibilities included customer service, management of reset resources, and implementation of retail action plans, managing retail continuity, and interface with national manufacturers.

Wafc Retail Manangment Certificate, Retail Management

Certificate, Business, Pass

In Progress, Marketing