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I led the development of sustainable, profitable Club businesses across Snacking, Milk and Meal Solutions businesses with core distribution gains and successful rotations across the channel via new item development, innovation, improving selling capabilities, customer relationship development, and revised promotional strategies founded in continual improvement, excellence in execution with our treasured customers, and keeping value creation as my North Star. In addition to branded expansion, I have sold new private label businesses (including KS) as well as the ever challenging downsize.

Breaking new ground: Development of multifunctional initiatives including new item development (branded and private label), streamlining sales strategies, building and training sales teams, financial and marketing plans, differentiation strategy, global product and merchandising strategies.

Leading the P&G export team to maximize global distribution of North American brands in Costco locations around the world (with focus on Asia).

Promoted to manage a field team dedicated to growing recommendation share and sales volume for key oral care brands in the states of California, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. Developed and executed a strategic action plan including managing multiple budgets and creation of local marketing programs using multifunctional resources. Hired, trained, and retained top talent in the organization and fostered a welcoming and diverse work environment.

Led a special corporative initiative to develop new CRM software for North American sales teams based on Siebel software. Responsible for defining the requirements, user acceptance testing, and deployment of the application. Created and implemented a training program and materials.

Promoted into a newly created role responsible for training and developing the field sales team alongside special corporate projects, while managing an individual sales territory. Organized, designed, and conducted product training for new product launches, while simultaneously achieving top-tier results for individual sales territory.

As Account Manager, I increased professional sales and recommendation in territory through personal selling, group sell events, distributors, retail integration, and utilization of alternative marketing vehicles within an assigned customer base (Washington and Alaska).