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Operations and business leader with broad ranging accountability for performance of critical functions. Designed and implemented an Agile POD business model for execution of marketing campaigns. Senior leader responsible for customer acquisition processes and digital delivery capabilities. Extensive background interfacing with audit and regulatory groups.

Marketing and commercial leader for broad portfolio of categories, products and brands. Expanding and evolving role successively responsible for: Packaged Ham, Pickled Meats, Fresh Pork, Canned Meat, Meat Snacks, Baking, Frozen Entrees and Handhelds. Wide-ranging accountability included: multiple category P&L’s, sales and expense budgeting, pricing and.

Member of both the senior sales and marketing leadership teams within the fresh meat division. Led strategic project to shift from arbitrage business model to optimizing internal use of raw material for further processing. Responsibilities included: department P&L, development of sales and expense budgets, pricing structure and sales strategy and private.

Senior account manager in charge of sourcing value-added pork exports from ML Brandon plant to Japan. Wide-ranging functional expertise in trading, product sourcing, operations and supply chain. Responsibility included: P&L accountability, new business development, sales forecasting, budgeting, marketing and pricing.

Black Belt in the inaugural wave of Six Sigma at Maple Leaf Foods. Full-time project manager & coach extensively trained in Six Sigma, statistical analysis tools, facilitation & change management. Specific areas of expertise include: re-engineering back-office processes, operations improvements and business information systems (process study and vendor.