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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Team Rubicon is a veteran-led humanitarian organization that serves global communities before, during, and after disasters and crises. My team highlights the incredible impact Team Rubicon makes in the community to our internal and external audiences, and we ensure Team Rubicon volunteers (known as Greyshirts) feel informed, engaged, and excited about events and the future of Team Rubicon.

Chicago, Il

Thank God It's Natural (tgin) is a manufacturer of natural hair and skin care products sold in Ulta Beauty, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Sally’s Beauty, and Walgreens. I promoted the goals of the tgin Marketing department by executing events and in-store product demonstrations that provided education regarding tgin's product offerings.

Chicago, Il

The Frock Shop is a designer dress rental service that specializes in renting dresses from coveted national and independent designers for black-tie events, proms, weddings, and parties. I directed day-to-day operations, sales, marketing, and strategic partnerships for bricks and mortar and online presence. I used my success in the start-up and small business space to mentor students, particularly young minority women who wanted to start a business.

Chicago, Il

Spearheaded national sales & marketing strategy and secured new business for the company's Chicago based restaurant chain and nationally distributed frozen food brand. Some of my responsibilities included: trained and supervised a combined team of 10, which included a sales & marketing associate, field merchandisers and DSD drivers. Some of my accounts included Kroger, Walmart, Jewel, Safeway, Food 4 Less, ALDI, Save-a-Lot, Ulta Foods, Ralphs and Walgreens.

Chicago, Il

Led the assessment of new innovation opportunities, including business case assessment, profitability targets, concept development. Duties included: contributed to multiple project teams consisting of Sales, R&D, Finance and Operations, developed and implemented in-store consumer promotions and off-site events, oversaw the design of marketing materials, labels and branding to ensure consistency with brand direction and standards and conducted consumer research and competitive analysis for products, branding and marketing campaigns.

Chicago, Illinois

Developed relationships with key decision-makers within target accounts to strengthen business relationships and grow overall account revenue. Duties included: identified, prioritized, and tracked progress towards key account metrics and annual quota, stayed current on account business, industry and key objectives and challenges so that I could be a trusted ally in providing thought leadership, analyzed IRI data & KPI's in order to determine best product assortment mix for accounts and created line reviews and new item presentations for retail buyers.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked to achieve and exceed individual sales goals set by store management team, actively engaged with customers, and participated in merchandising projects, daily stock maintenance, floor changeovers, and product transfers.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Assisted the Special Events Manager with all in-store events for J.C. Penney stores in the Birmingham, Alabama region.

Bachelor Of Science, International Marketing

Business Accelerator Program Graduate, Business