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Purchase, New York, Us

Purchase, New York, Us

• Lead the Total Portfolio Optimization process to manage warehouse inventory with rollout of key innovation items while partnering with Senior Leadership, Sales, Finance, Revenue Management and Supply Chain teams• Responsible for managing the annual Beverage budget and ordering process of permanent and temporary merchandising equipment in store while providing recommendations on improving ROI and waste metrics• Creatively built an internal sales incentive calendar to help drive the business during key points in the year by offering employee payouts based on hitting growth targets• Integral part of standing up a new Commercial Strategy team within the company and managing 7 direct reports• Leading category reset conversations with key customers by providing merchandising standards and input in order to drive incremental space gains on shelf

Purchase, New York, Us

• Participated in the 2019 Water category reset with the Albertsons Leadership team to present category trends and shelf recommendations with proposed activations of $18MM across total Albertsons• Supported the sell in of all 2018 Mainstream Chilled innovation in Jewel and gained over 8 linear feet of space for Tropicana Orange Juice• Prepared selling materials and participated in 12 reset meetings across Jewel and Safeway divisions, which helped drive $4.2MM in incremental sales in 2018• Named category captain for Denver Safeway in 2017 for the Water, Tea and Coffee categories and provided innovation and flow changes to the shelf sets to drive an incremental $723k in category sales growth• Managed a summer intern in 2017 & 2018, providing consistent coaching on a project share out to senior leadership which resulted in both receiving full time offers

Purchase, New York, Us

• Enhanced the Post Program Analysis tool and shared out to all 142 Category Managers to then leverage with the Shopper Marketing team to understand ROI and improve in-store and digital program capabilities• Successfully built dynamic business health scorecards across multiple data sources to track key performance indicators, innovation indexes & merchandising metrics to evaluate the PepsiCo business across key retail accounts • Partnered with Shopper Insights team to roll out the new “LaunchPro” tool which helped to improve the innovation accuracy and impact through data modeling

New York, New York, Us

• In 2016, managed the Kellogg and the Kraft Heinz business units of Planters, Cheese and Meals. Secured over $4MM in sales during the first half of the fiscal year, a 10% increase from previous year, by providing added value and strategic recommendations despite being challenged by zero-based budgeting• Promoted to lead a $14MM sales territory in 2015, represented by the Kraft Cheese and Beverage business units, one of the largest accounts in the Chicago office. Responsible for interacting with key clients, providing marketing service recommendations and managing 3 direct reports• Exceeded 2014 sales goals by $2MM and finished 119% to goal through consultative sales of print, in-store point of sale advertising, sampling, and online support to drive awareness of key Kraft brands and deliver program objectives• Experienced working directly with Brand Managers, Customer Marketing, Consumer Insight Groups, Promotion and Retail Teams and Agency Partners including Ogilvy-Action/Geometry, TBWA/Shopper Arts, Catapult and Upshot

New York, New York, Us

• In 2016, managed the Kellogg and the Kraft Heinz business units of Planters, Cheese and Meals. Secured over $4MM in sales during the first half of the fiscal year, a 10% increase from previous year, by providing added value and strategic recommendations despite being challenged by zero-based budgeting• Promoted to lead a $14MM sales territory in 2015, represented by the Kraft Cheese and Beverage business units, one of the largest accounts in the Chicago office. Responsible for interacting with key clients, providing marketing service recommendations and managing 3 direct reports• Exceeded 2014 sales goals by $2MM and finished 119% to goal through consultative sales of print, in-store point of sale advertising, sampling, and online support to drive awareness of key Kraft brands and deliver program objectives• Experienced working directly with Brand Managers, Customer Marketing, Consumer Insight Groups, Promotion and Retail Teams and Agency Partners including Ogilvy-Action/Geometry, TBWA/Shopper Arts, Catapult and Upshot

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

Business, Marketing

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Marketing