Lead the planning, management and execution of private label packaging projects for assigned clients. Create project timelines, and ensure all projects are completed on schedule and on budget. Lead cross-functional teams consisting of clients, sales, product development, creative team, and printers. Provide daily project status reports, monthly sales forecasting and pipeline reports to leadership team. Act as brand guardian for all clients, ensuring that brand guidelines are adhered to on all projects. Manage Schulze & Burch’s presence at five annual trade shows.Key Accomplishments:• Project leader for new FDA mandated nutrition label updates, overseeing the re-design of 800 SKUs for more than 50 clients• Identified cost-savings opportunity by bringing pre-press work in-house to generate cost savings of more than 50% per project

Client liaison, responsible for ensuring quality of services and overall customer satisfaction. Account and project manager for national and global clients, representing $125,000 in monthly billing. Participated in client meetings, including launches and status update meetings. Created project timelines and led the planning, management and execution of projects. Key Accomplishments:• Promoted to traffic manager, in charge of scheduling all projects as they entered the Pre-Press phase, while still maintaining my existing account manager responsibilities• Oversaw all rights-managed and royalty free stock image purchases, which eliminated duplicate purchases and resulted in annual savings of more than $11,000

Created and implemented project plans and timelines to manage and ensure high satisfaction of internal and external customers' expectations; that included senior management, clients, finance, outside consultants, vendors and other stakeholders.Key Accomplishments:• Recognized for advanced project management skills; promoted from Customer Service Representative at Federated U.S. Foodservice Division to Client Service Representative (Account Manager) at SailPointe Creative Division in less than two years • 2011 Federated Group President’s Award Recipient• Simultaneously led the account and project management of more than 150 concurrent design projects among ten clients while also leading the redesign project for Federated Group’s top two brands• Partnered with Creative Services Director to launch and oversee training of Kodak Virtual Review for 22 staff members

Responsible for procurement and inventory management of Toyo’s North American regional manufacturing branches which generated more than $25 million in annual product sales. Provided monthly inventory reconciliation, sales reports, and stock status updates. Acted as company liaison with logistics companies and executed all customs paperwork for outbound international shipments.Key Accomplishments:• Earned multiple promotions and increased responsibility; started at entry-level position in 1994 and was promoted to supervisory and management-level positions • Relocated to US headquarters (IL) in 2003 to create and lead a new, centralized call center which processed all phone and internet orders for the United States, Canada, South America and Mexico• Positions held include shipping and receiving clerk, inventory clerk, customer service representative, customer service supervisor, customer service manager, inventory and procurement manager