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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Lead McCormick's US and Canada consumer products Sales team. Responsible for driving profitable growth across our various categories, including: McCormick spices & extracts, McCormick recipe mixes, Lawry's, French's, Franks, Cholula, Stubbs, Thai Kitchen and Kitchen Basics.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Lead McCormick's Consumer Products US Sales team which is charged with driving profitable sales growth across the $1.9B portfolio of well recognized consumer brands: McCormick Spices, Recipe Mixes & Seasonings, Lawry's, Old Bay, McCormick Grillmates, and Golden Dipt. McCormick has a rich 125 year history of providing unique consumer solutions to drive category growth for our customers.

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Us

Charged with building out the shared services function within the North American business with a focus on forecasting, sales effectiveness, and commercial insights. The primary accountability is to enable the commercial leadership team with the analytics and insights that drive Mylan's growth plans on the generic and branded businesses.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for the full P&L of the Heinz Frozen Foods business unit which is roughly $1.5B in Sales and is made up of the following brands: Ore Ida, Smart Ones, TGIF Snacks, and Bagel Bites. The role is charged with driving topline and bottom line growth via a wide array of consumer and customer levers, including: equity building activities, new items, pricing strategies, assortment optimization and customer planning.

Chicago, Il, Us

Charged with building out a new Revenue Management team and capability within the North American business. The team is tasked with driving topline and bottom line improvements via pricing, promotion and mix optimization. The revenue management team must balance statistical & financial modeling with consumer and shopper insights in order to develop viable solutions for the marketplace. The scope of the position encompasses the US and Canadian Retail business, including the following brands: Heinz Ketchup, Classico, Ore Ida, Smart Ones, TGIF Snacks and Heinz Gravy. This role sits on the North American board which influences the broader strategic direction of Heinz' Consumer and Foodservice businessesLed the transformation efforts on behalf of the North American CEO through the acquisition of Heinz by 3G Partners & Berkshire Hathaway. The role is charged with driving North American profitable growth behind three key platforms: 1.) Growth initiatives, 2.) Business processes & simplification efforts and 3.) Cultural transformation. This position sits on the North American board and influences the broader strategic platform for Heinz' Consumer and Foodservice divisions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Drive effeciency and effectiveness for the broader Heinz R&D function. Direct accountability for all project management efforts as well as product optimization efforts. Support new product development and our global integration efforts across the R&D function.

Lead a team of 15 board members in an effort to attract, retain and develop the best students possible for the Penn State MBA program. The office interfaces with the student body, various alumni as well as the MBA administration.

Responsible for $750MM in customer investment and $4.8B in Sales. Enabled the success of the external sales team via insights, tools, trade strategies and category mangement efforts. Responsbile for 80 associates across the Foodservice and Consumer products business. Drove several transformation efforts to improve topline and bottom line growth. Areas of influence include trade investment optimization, customer profitability, category management, insights development, pricing & terms optimization as well as several process & systems efforts to enable Sales success.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led the Consumer products internal sales team which consisted of $500MM in customer investment, $3.3B in Sales and 50 Associates. Primary accomplishments during this tenure include the following: 1.) Drove over $100MM in rate based customer investment value, 2.) Developed a customer profitability model to optimize planning and profitability, 3.) Lead the development of our category funding approach to simplify and leverage our customer funds via systems and process improvements, 4.) established a category insights team to develop a fact based infrastructure for selling and 5.) deployed advanced analytics around price elasticity and assortment optimization to drive top & bottom line results.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Cultivated relationships with key accounts in an effort to grow ADP's payroll, human resource and tax filing services. Was awarded the President's Club during my first full year in Sales.

Mba, Marketing & Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing & Speech Communications