• Developed multi-year strategies, including market and product trend evaluations, SWOT analysis, and new product development pipelines to achieve budgeted sales, profit, and incrementality growth across all shelf-stable beverage categories.• Drove Our Brands sales through the development and creation of new beverage products from concept ideation through product launch, including vendor selection, cost negotiation, flavor creation, and packaging structure selection.• Collaborated with cross functional teams including Merchandising, Corporate Food Technology, internal and external service providers, and internal and external manufacturing partners to successfully develop and launch new beverage products.• Assisted in the development and training of Our Brands Project Tracker.• Led Our Brands Cultural Council and Our Promise teams.

• Managed $1 billion of product across various frozen categories for 2,500 stores.• Maintained positive trade relations and developed strategic alliances with suppliers.• Coordinated tasks and special projects across 50 supplier and broker representatives.• Communicated with divisions and division sales planners to keep abreast of local market conditions and competitive activity.• Provided strategic category direction on assortment, pricing, advertising plans, and promotions.• Created corporate sales plans to support financial growth budgets, increase profit dollars, and gain market share.

• Performed data analysis on all major sales events including threshold offer measurements. • Managed the sales plan review process.• Tracked and analyzed all sales initiatives.

• Procured a variety of categories while achieving a high level of service to meet budgeted sales, profits, and days of supply on both turn and promotional items for multiple distribution centers. • Managed over $7 million of inventory across 3,000 items. • Maintained positive relationships with vendors and supported divisional category staff.