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Overseeing a team of 6-10 regional craft beer sales representatives. Deploy high-yield sales strategies and grow routes through performance-driven customer relationships.

As an Inside Sales Representative at Icon Foods, I maintain and grow customer relationships through sales and customer service expertise. Duties I perform: Promote Icon’s portfolio of proprietary sweeteners, clean food ingredients and co-packing services. Identify/target growth opportunities with thorough industry research and customer resource planning. Contract and pricing management of customers including contract negotiations. Interface between technical support, logistics and internal food laboratory to support customer needs. Represent Icon Foods at trade shows and food industry expositions.

Portland, Oregon Area

Company restructuring provided an opportunity to use skillset on a national level. I established new accounts across the United States, managing about 1,000 existing customers, and served as the primary point of contact for outside sales within assigned regions. Was consistently one of the top-grossing sales reps company-wide.

Vancouver, Wa

Managed and serviced 180 accounts in the Vancouver metro area. Customer service, merchandising, ordering, maintaining sales growth within coverage area, delivery, light equipment maintenance and installation, marketing, customer service, product and warehouse management were all part of the daily routine. After 10 years, grew the Vancouver route to more than $2MM in sales.

Portland, Or

Position entailed customer service, supervising up to 25 employees at one time, employee scheduling, light building maintenance, food service and bartending, line cooking, and money management.

Portland, Or

Maintained exemplary customer service while supervising up to 15 employees, overseeing product management and monetary transactions.

Portland, Or

Duties included customer service, supervising up to 25 employees at one time, employee scheduling, food service and bartending, line cooking, and money management.