Christopher Kastner Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Leading 11 talented individuals on driving actionable insights for our account teams in the Premium Waters category

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Leading 7 talented individuals in managing our total portfolio within the Value Channel. Customers included Dollar General, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Driving profitable growth to win with our consumers in the Frozen Foods categories. Brands responsible during my tenure includes California Pizza Kitchen, Outsiders, DiGiorno and Stouffers

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Selling Frozen Meals (Stouffers), Pizza (DiGiorno, Tombstone, Jack's) & Snacking (Hot/Lean Pockets) brands into Dollar General - over $150M in NPS

Rogers, Arkansas

Supporting the Nestle USA Walmart & Sam's Club Sales Team with reporting, presentations and overall support for both customer and internal requests.

Rogers, Arkansas

Managed 8 Retail Sales Representative in Arkansas, Missouri & Oklahoma to hit key retail performance indicators, as well as coaching up for future opportunities within the Nestle Sales Organization.

Chicago, Illinois

Selling Chilled Nesquik, Coffeemate, Frozen Pizza & Ice Cream to C-Store Accounts and managing our Distributor Network in Northern Illinois/Wisconsin Markets.

Solon, Ohio

Working in our Cleveland, OH corporate office supporting our Retail FIeld Sales Team

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Worked with 40 Pittsburgh area grocery stores on: - Maintaining Nielsen's Share of Distribution and Shelf for current Nestle's product portfolio. - Obtain fastest Speed To Shelf for new product launches. - Selling new and existing item end cap and aisle displays. - Named 2008 Northeast Sales Rookie Of The Year - 2009 & 2010 Very Best Award Winner

Cincinnati, Ohio

-Managing our largest customer using account management skills, relationship building and teamwork in order to build upon our $100 million dollars in revenue with Toyota. -Increase profit margins 2% on certain existing platforms through negoitation with customer.-Addressed commercial issues throughout the plant to save the company an estimated $100,000.-Worked well in multi-cultural enviroment

Dayton, Ohio

-Trained over 100 sales representatives on a new CRM Tool (Salesforce.com).-Developed sales training curriculum reports to assist executive management in tracking program participation and success of training.-Tracked and updated the sales training calendar on all events applicable to the fast-paced and always changing environment.-Coordinated all logistics for outside national sales training seminars to ensure all presentations were delivered smoothly and all participants could receive maximum benefit from these programs.-Attended and assisted in the presentation of several sales workshops that focused on selling skills, industry knowledge and product benefits to customers.

Akron, Ohio

-Designed marketing collateral and mailers to promote special events.-Recognized for providing excellent customer service for ticket sales transactions.-Engaged telesales and follow-up meetings with corporate clients to increase group ticket sales.-Responsible for Game Day ticket sales and promotions.

Akron, Ohio

-Wrote game summaries as well as team previews for high school sports-Arranged all scoring summaries, box scores and other statistical data sent fromhigh school, college and professional sports.-Provided customer service on all incoming calls to the sports department.-Managed a staff of 5-10 statisticians on a continuing basis.

Bachelors Of Science: Business Administration, Marketing, Communications

Activities and Societies: School of Business Peer Advisor Marketing Club Relay for Life Committe (American Cancer Society) Campus Ministry.

Food Executive Program