Creating a profitable and sustainable growth path for the Cargill Food & Bio North America Team in Ice Cream and Confections categories. Responsible for the category strategy and deployment while partnering cross functionally with the R&D, Marketing, Sales and Core Product Line teams.

Critical role in driving the activation and execution of product line strategies for Chocolate, Compound & Special Products.

Main Responsibilities: • Team Leadership• Channel Specific Marketing• Established Product Innovation• New Product Development• Holistic Margin Management• Forecasting, Volume Tracking, and Budgeting

• Demonstrates strong project management skills by analyzing current brand/category needs, consumer insights, innovation, strategic business plans while completing projects within the client/customer time constraints • Successfully identifies and cultivates new business while leading others in understanding the clients objectives

• Created strategic partnerships and alliances with co-workers, inter-departmental Vice Presidents, Directors and clients• Strategically handled the validation and management of $35.5 million in deductions on a monthly basis for SUPERVALU, Nash Finch and Target• Managed efficiently to contain costs through improving internal processes for Sales Support while partnering with the Sales Administrative team

• New service delivery metrics, along with a sustainment system, for the National Dispatch Center (in collaboration with McKinsey & Company Consulting)• Extensive travel for continuation of development, training and execution of the new service delivery metric system to 350 team managers, Regional Directors, and Vice Presidents

• Managed the dispatch of 397 technicians in a strategic, time sensitive manner, while exceeding national, commercial and residential account response time and quality assurance goals

• Assisted with the development and implementation of a new software program• Marketed program • Collaborated with cross functional teams to create over a 130 page training handbook

• Improved team compliance from below standard to highest compliance rating in three months