In partnership with brand and sustainability teams, responsibilities include the onboarding of new clients and management of long-term relationships to maximize ROI and value of their recycling programs. Regular program updates and strategic marketing recommendations help drive incremental sales and promote consumer awareness for brands through social media channels, retail partnerships, marketing campaigns, closed loop recycling solutions, building of collector recycling networks and PR initiatives.Portfolio of accounts includes CPG brands across a wide range of categories including coffee, beauty, pet, grocery, home, health care, toys, textiles, and cigarette’s to include: Yankee Candle, Rubbermaid, Calphalon, (Newell Brands), Bausch & Lomb, Philip Morris, Hasbro, VTech, Polygroup, Burt’s Bees & GoMacro.

Promote Wayfair Professional's B2B products and services to the hospitality industry, managing the full sales cycle and client relationships.

Managed nationwide portfolio of hospitality management companies representing over $110M in spend. Focus on building supplier and client relationships, supporting client's operational and growth initiatives across brands. Align client hotel portfolios with supplier programs (875+) and savings. Present consultative analysis and recommendations to key leadership and C-level executives based on client needs and business analytics, resulting in new spend for Avendra and bottom line savings for hotels. Promote iBuyEfficient, Avendra's e-commerce procurement platform and educate clients on myAvendra, our client facing portal providing customized reporting and supplier management tools.

Directed operations, sales, service and teams for Philadelphia cafes, including corporate flagship, with total store sales exceeding $8.5M. Scope encompassed leading special projects, maintaining KPI's, P & L responsibility, serving as test market for cafe retail operations, developing/enforcing customer service standards, general management oversight, facilities management, developing supplier relationships (internal and external), recruitment, staff development, compliance for all health and safety standards and roll out of new CPG items in retail channel. ► Captured #1 performance ranking company-wide my first year, driving an average of 23% sales growth in Philadelphia cafes. Under my leadership, Philly market gained 39.1% increase in revenue from 2016 through 2018.► Initiated new in-house catering & events program at flagship location. Expanded grab & go food program in all Philly cafes to contribute to bottom line profitability.

Role centered on supporting brand building and product launches across North America for international aromatherapy and fragrance company. Provided broad based support to VP of Sales & Marketing. Managed US showroom, on-boarded new accounts, supported sales reps and cultivated new business at industry trade shows. Supported wholesale and retail accounts.

Sole proprietor of entrepreneurial venture specializing in up-cycled jewelry. Fully directed product development and design of hand-crafted award-winning original jewelry, incorporating recycled items. Oversaw materials sourcing, manufacturing, marketing, sales, packaging, point of sale displays, web design, copywriting and business development.► Defined and implemented multi-channel sales strategy: direct sales at hundreds of craft/trade shows, multiple wholesale accounts and online sales fueled by active social media presence.► Conceptualized and developed proprietary online store and website, composed copy, planned layout, and directed photography.

Contract role, conducting front-line edits and finalizing of customer experience surveys and mystery shopping reports conducted for upscale restaurants and hotels, performed by a panel of over 18,000 evaluators worldwide.

Active volunteer in various leadership roles supporting community based initiatives in education, athletics and the arts.

Supplier Relations role (Hotel & Air) at corporate HQ of global travel management company. ►Performed needs analysis of client hotel programs, managed RFP process, conducted site inspections and negotiated rates plus amenities with hotels. Structured client specific preferred hotel programs and managed compliance for portfolio of Fortune 500 clients.► Evaluated airline contracts, historical travel patterns and market changes to create customized linear programming models for clients, to optimally manage travel spend and meet all required incentive hurdles.

Distribution center of the world’s largest budget classical compact disc label. Liaison between Public Relations, Promotions, Field Sales, International distributors and parent company in Hong Kong. Created and distributed monthly release information, sales collateral and trade ads to music editors, reviewers, sales reps, wholesale accounts and consumers.

Founding team member for the Teleflix Movie Hotline, an entrepreneurial start-up partnered with USA Today to launch the 1st national on-demand information service providing movie trailers, MPAA ratings, parental advisories and synopses of movies in theatres. Collaborated with software developers on one of the 1st nationwide theatre locator services. Venture ultimately moved to CA and acquired by Times–Mirror to become Hollywood.com.

Responsible for staffing, operations and guest satisfaction of 24 hour room service and mini bar operations in 364 room luxury downtown property.

Hospitality consultant in U.S. based international accounting firm. ►Prepared hotel market feasibility studies for proposed hotel projects in Belize, the Bahamas and Southern Florida. Performed financial projections, conducted fieldwork, provided competitive market analysis and wrote reports. Findings used to solicit financial backing for projects from banks and individual investors.