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Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado

Provided strategic forecast for Walmart, Target, WinCo, Club, and QFC, trade analytic / break-even analysis for WinCo and QFC and trade efficiency analysis for WinCo and QFC. Supported Sales Directors across four submarkets in the Intermountain West. Operated Navigator business planning tool.• Utilized IRI Data to produce market share and consumer insight analysis.• Generated weekly reports on price guardrails, customer margins, and unit growth analysis.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Hired trained and managed 12 Retail Sales Representatives across New England covering a five-state geography. Retail Sales Point-of-Contact for Shaw’s in-field store execution.• Led team to achieve sales goals based on volume and display base support.• Generated weekly reports on new-item distribution, distribution voids, and selling objectives.• Managed training for retail sales representatives on new Edge Ordering Software.• Constructed fact-based incremental selling tools using Nielsen and Retail Link data.• Sold directly to Market and Divisional leadership at key accounts.• Coordinated with multiple direct and syndicated third-party broker partners.• Selected to represent General Mills at Krasdale and Shaw’s trade shows

Kansas City,Omaha,Denver

Sold directly to thirty-one Walmart Market Managers. Provided support to seven Mondelez District Managers and three Regional Directors of Retail covering a five-state geography.• Drove bottom line results by aligning regional Mondelez retail teams in-store execution to National Walmart Team goals and Walmart’s internal expectations.• Ensured execution of base programming, development, and execution of Walmart objectives beyond the National CBT Efforts.• Constructed fact-based incremental sales sheets using Nielsen and Retail Link data.• Provided analysis and dissemination of weekly in store execution data across two Mondelez Regions.• Coordinator of 2014 and 2015 category resets with multiple regional broker partners.• Selected to mentor Kansas City 2014 Summer Intern Program candidate.• Sold over $300K in pallet-ready displays in Quarter 4 in 2015.

Responsible for hiring, staffing, training, and managing of Full-Time and Part-Time Sales Service Representatives Trains and certifies Sales Service Representatives in both Retail and Safety-related processes, procedures and best practices Approves and manages weekly payroll within monthly labor budgets; completed 2012 with less than 1% variance against target Winner of 2012 Circle of Champions Sales Incentive Facilitates Quarterly Merchandiser Meetings for sales and safety updates Develops and manages schedule for daily store service and vacation schedules for the year Routinely generates Excel and Visual Basic-based analysis tools to improve communications across the Sales team and to support data-driven risk and resource mitigation analyses  Assumes District Manager responsibilities in his absence  Selected to support Mondelēz International recruiting sessions at the University of Northern Colorado

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Responsible for training, mentoring, and IT problem resolution for all Sales Teams within Arizona.  Trained and mentored Sales Representatives in Wall-to-Wall in-store execution; Trained all new hires as a part of their Career Learning Path Generated weekly one-page sales guidance for Fry’s Food Stores; this product served as the template for sales guidance generated for other sales accounts ( i.e.,King Soopers, Albertsons, and Smiths)  First Market Trainer to track weekly Top Ten Priorities within the West Area Served as Qlikview (internal Team member evaluation tool) Reporting Champion for Phoenix and Denver Markets Trained Sales Representatives (SR’s), Retail Merchandising Supervisors (RMS’s), Sales Analysts (SA’s), and District Managers (DM’s) on Kraft’s i$ell Application (product ordering software for Sales Reps) Selected to support Kraft recruiting sessions at University of Arizona Selected to interview candidates for Summer Internship in Phoenix Assumed responsibilities of local District Manager in his absence, One of five Market Trainers selected from all Market Trainers nationwide to participate in Phase 1 i$ell beta-testing (Spring 2011) One of three Market Trainers selected from all Market Trainers nationwide to participate in Phase 2 i$ell beta-testing at Kraft HQ prior to its planned October 2011 release Selected to participate with geographic -based Customer Business Teams (CBT) as they were trained in Kraft’s RAM application (objective flowdown tool for managers)

Greater Denver Area

Responsible for developing and executing sales strategies and cultivating key Customer relationships in order to meet or exceed sales objectives. Successful Sales Representative on two separate teams.  Selected to serve as Technology Lead on Team 88 Trained new Sales Service Representatives and Senior Sales Service Representatives  One of four Sales Representatives selected across the Denver Region to participate in the 2009 Project Team; led the data collection and analysis portion of the project

Greater Denver Area

Maintained relationships with Customers while driving sales as a Vacation Representative