Accomplished Category and Brand Manager for a Fortune 100 company with extensive business experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, with a proven record in the following competencies: • Category and brand management• Marketing and product development• Supplier and customer relationship building• Sales and promotional planning• Procurement and deal analysis• Budgets and financial planning• Contract negotiation• Margin and profitability analysis Expertise in brand management with abilities in financial management and marketing, and a background of managing successful product lines for a variety of retail and wholesale Fortune 500 companies. Extremely effective in building brand identities and consistent sales growth among a wide variety of products. Strengths include sales, marketing and promotional planning, margin and profitability analysis, building supplier relationships and contract negotiations in the wholesale and retail business.
Listed skills include Forecasting, Pricing, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Retail, and 46 others.