Responsible for delivering international revenue growth by creating innovative sales, marketing and merchandising plans for existing & future retailers, through strong customer relationships.

Leading Omni-Channel Beverage Company with Expertise in Wine, Spirts & Barware. Responsible for delivering revenue growth in the Grocery industry. Account responsibilities include Kroger, HEB, Wakefern, Giant Eagle & Distributors including Imperial & DPI.

Responsibilities include identifying, developing and maintaining business relationships to assure customer satisfaction, retention, value enhancement and up-sells for new features and functions. The objective is to provide effective, high quality supply chain technology solutions to natural product/grocery retailers , distributors, vendor's and broker's that result in the sales of our services to achieve company sales and revenue goals.

Directly was responsible for national supermarket network growth, department P&L, managing a 3rd party national service organization, CPG sales, contract negotiations & operational savings initiatives.

New start-up company with unique products within the digestive category. Worked directly with the owner/inventor to develop a national product launch strategy. *Managed, developed and implemented strategic planning including P&L, pricing strategies and distribution. *Sold in and secured initial distribution in major Grocery/Drug accounts including Walgreen’s, CVS, Wakefern/Shoprite and Albertsons.*Quickly & efficiently interviewed/trained/developed a broker network to represent new brands nationally.

Major Food Brokerage Firm representing Grocery/Frozen/Produce and HBC/GM manufacturers. Experience ranged from Territory Manager to VP of Retail Operations successfully balancing CPG goals and objectives with Food and Drug Retailer demands. Part of a leadership team that developed a strong successful culture and great reputation for representing blue chip companies, both in sales and retail in the New York Metro Market.- Responsibilities included a direct sales/merchandising staff of 84 employee’s.- Maintained outstanding store conditions for over 1,300 supermarket and drug stores.- Account executive for 5 fortune 1000 companies including Bristol Myers and Playtex.- Developed/Forecasted/Budgeted $2.3MM in incremental sales on “Retail Only” client accounts.- Achieved goal of making the retail/service department a profit center instead of an expense. - Earned many/consecutive “Broker of the Year” awards for outstanding retail performance.- Created a new “Think Retail” division generating customer revenue focused on seasonal merchandising with Pathmark and Shoprite. - Proficient in all aspects of space management, planograms & resets. - Team member of HBC/GM department growth from 18% to 34% in total sales making it the largest division in the company.