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Burlington, ON, CA

Richmond, British Columbia, CA

- Responsible for the company's commercial strategy and its implementation with our customers and consumers in order to ensure winning collaboration and consumer love. - Leads the clear alignment of sales and marketing strategies into a cohesive, clear and effective go-to-market plans behind our power brands -- Nature's Path Organic, Que Pasa, Love Crunch.

Richmond, British Columbia, CA

- Global scope. Responsible for the purpose-driven sales organization in driving the company's vision of always leaving the earth better than we found it.- Inspires and empowers the sales organization comprised of market Vice Presidents/Leaders (USA, Canada, International, Food Service and eCommerce), Sales Managers, Trade Marketing, Category Management.

Richmond, British Columbia, CA

- Progressive leadership responsibility that started with the growth and development of the Canadian business (November 2014 onward), followed by the expansion of the Global Walmart business (March 2016 onward), Global Costco, Emerging channels and Export businesses (October 2016 onward)- Responsible for overall business unit P&L management, 4P execution.

Slough, Berkshire, GB

- Progressive responsibility for the P&L of the largest customer portfolio in Canada -- notably Loblaw Companies Limited, Shoppers Drug Mart, Safeway, Federated Coop, Overwaitea, London Drugs, Amazon, Jean Coutu, Katz, Familiprix, Uniprix, DT, all Drug Wholesalers and all our broker partners* 2013 - Awarded "Best Customer Team Award for LCL" by RB Canada*.

Slough, Berkshire, GB

* 2011 - Awarded "Best Placement Implementation Award" by RB Global* 2011 - Awarded "Best Customer Team Award for Wal*mart" by RB Canada* 2011 - Awarded "Best Business Driving Initiative Award" by RB Canada- Recognized globally and Canada for the best business driving initiative idea in 2011. Initiative is now being rolled out across Canada and the world..

Slough, Berkshire, GB

- Developed winning trade strategies for Global Powerbrands -- Veet (#1 in Market), Clearasil and Strepsils.- Championed go-to-market plans and selling story for the company's top 2010 launch - Lysol Healthy Touch (#1 SKU in Hand Soap)- Worked with North American Club Channel team on the optimization of our Club SKUs that delivered improved on-going.

St Louis, Missouri, US

• 2008 - Awarded "The Teamwork Award" by Energizer Canada
• Developed, presented and implemented strategies and tactics for implementing Shopper Based Solutions (Shopper Marketing) at Walmart, LCL, The Source and Canadian Tire.
• Provided marketing and shopper expertise to develop winning promotional and in-store programs for our top National Accounts.
• Managed all elements of our Space Management activities by coordinating efforts with internal resources, retail service partners and third party suppliers
• Participated in the development of winning strategic plans in the launch of the new Energizer Advance Lithium innovation
• North American Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) champion

Blackfriars, London, GB

- Part of the exceptional team who managed Unilever's homecare brands -- Sunlight, Snuggle and Vim. Team was first to deliver on all KPIs after many years (Top line, Net Sales and Share growth)- Responsible for monthly volume forecasts, Trade spend, Co-marketing, Brand Trade Strategy and Competitive Intelligence- Developed pricing strategy, program rate.

Blackfriars, London, GB

- Led the Innovation and Go-To-Market projects which launched notable Unilever brands and initiatives such as Dove Masterbrand 2005 – 2006, Dove Lotion launch, Vaseline re-launch, Axe Shower Gel, Dove Bodywash platform launches and Dove Face premium line – totaling in over $100M in incremental sales.- Managed all projects relating to Personal Care in.

Blackfriars, London, GB

- Coordinated and led teammates that worked the evening and overnight shifts ensuring that conditions on systems and networks across Canada (12 manufacturing plants, 5 Sales Offices, 2 Call Centres and 1 laboratory) are monitored using management systems to identify situations that affect or potentially affect service, and respond to such situations in a.

- Lead a team of three to monitor Global Data Center operations with networks in Europe, Australia, South America and the US in support of customers which includes Time Warner, Southwestern Bell and XO Communications.- Implemented and responsible for updating the Toronto and Edmonton Data Centres intranet websites, which includes pertinent information used.

- Managed all IS related functions in the company - from supplier relations to personnel training- Managed all Operational aspects of the business with line workers, warehouse supervisors and front desk customer service personnel reporting to me.- Implemented an AS/400 base distribution system that served as the company’s back bone for its order entry.