Sally Mickelson Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Naperville, Illinois, United States

♦ Worked closely with Sales Operations Managers and the Direct Sales Team to provide information, analysis and sales materials. Total business was $134M♦ Collaborated to execute seasonal programs totaling $37M annually with 81% average sell through with Walmart.♦ Maintained customer master item data, including price, sales history, merchandising and product information. Made it easy for stakeholders to access remotely. ♦ Work with Consumer Business Unit on New Item information, shipping requirements, merchandising vehicle, samples, etc.♦ Work with Inventory Planner to validate account forecast accuracy and ensure stock position on time. ♦ Coordinate the costing information required for quoting to ensure pricing was accurate and items were profitable. ♦ Managed product portfolio of 250 items, including forecasting, product lifecycle planning and customer communications. ♦ Manage Wilton’s S&OP including but not limited to leading collaborative meetings, collection and input of drivers/assumptions data, official file documents, and expert-level understanding of the sales inputs in the forecast process♦ Navigate retailer portals to maintain item setup and Maintenace including discontinuation/replacement, price updates, quotations, product attribute and data. ♦ Administrative support

Naperville, Illinois, United States

♦ Working on the seasonal Walmart business, I work with other member of the team to create the sales presentation for the seasonal meeting with Walmart. Pull in analytics and stats for the team to incorporate into the presentation.♦ Liaison between Sales and Product Development to ensure the sales and marketing strategy was communicated effectively, products met Walmart guidelines and specifications.♦ Providing communication, direction and updates to our Product Development Team with Walmart and our Sales’ Teams direction on design and product form. Add timelines and products for new year.♦ Supply Walmart with product information, samples and content needed to complete the season successfully. ♦ Working with Inventory, Warehouse and Customer Service teams to insure the items and quantities are ordered and shipped correctly. ♦ Work efficiently with our Sales Team and Category Management Team on our future direction for our Baking and Wedding plan-o-grams.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

♦ Provided sales team weekly and monthly reports for our department store, craft and military retailers. ♦ Responsible for analyzing and reporting Point of Sale data that is received from multiple retailers. ♦ Worked with sales team to create new products to satisfy the retail and consumer needs. ♦ Worked with the Sales team to create reports looking at the craft, wedding and bake ware retailers and complied the data to provide them with competitive information in the marketplace.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

♦ Responsible for providing support to three grocery sellers with over 35 accounts. ♦ Duties include seasonal, cake decorating and bake ware sales presentation. ♦ Presentations included product information, creating suggested plan-o-grams and customer purchasing information. ♦ Maintaining monthly reports of business reviews and net sales report. ♦ Coordinating all product samples, maintaining communications, product information and needs of brokers and customers.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for providing detailed analysis on segments, seasons, and competitive activity for Albertsons and Safeway. Nationally this business equates to approximately $24M in sales for Brachs. Building fact-based PowerPoint presentations which include, but are not limited to, sell sheets, share of business, actuals versus projections, utilizing IRI syndicated data, SAP/internal and external databases.♦ Update, compile and distribute daily, weekly and monthly sales and promotional recaps/reports to key sales management personnel. ♦ Track SKU movement by ACV and item ranking, as well as in-house shipment progress utilizing internal SAP system, and provide detailed recaps to key sales management personnel.♦ Assist National Sales Managers with daily tasks to accomplish their selling initiatives.♦ Key resource to Sales Managers for prioritizing project timelines.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

♦ Assisted with building and creating National Account selling stories (Albertson’s, Kroger, Safeway, and SuperValu) by pulling and populating presentations with IRI data, utilizing PowerPoint.♦ Processed, tracked and approved policy and procedural processes of our free-standing loose candy racks by our brokers. ♦ Planned quarterly National Accounts team meetings, as well as handled all travel arrangement for the Director of National Accounts.♦ Created and distributed monthly IRI reporting for key sales management personnel.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

♦ Coordinated and created department policies and procedures due to Sample Room relocation♦ Hired, trained and managed temporary employees – up to a staff of six♦ Processed samples to sales personnel in a timely and cost-effective manner♦ Coordinated seasonal samples to sales personnel

Chicago, Illinois, United States

♦ Assisted with the completion in a timely manner of our Chicago Factory Budgets♦ Managed and processed monthly headcount reports for the Chicago factory ♦ General administrative duties

Chicago, Illinois, United States

♦ Maintained daily schedule♦ Set-up meetings♦ General administrative duties, including travel plans

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, United States

♦ General administrative duties for six employees♦ Organized and supervise display numbering system♦ Create and track department purchase request♦ Create spreadsheets and graphs for presentations using Lotus 123 and Harvard Graphics♦ Month-end report for racks/fixtures

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Updated billing tables• Worked through billing conversion obstacles• Organized policies & procedures for enhancements and open conversion issues

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Managed department• Created procedures to minimized fraud• Created monthly and weekly management report• Trained new employees • Maintained roamer billing tables • Updated the switch with new roamer exchanges

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Created and organized the department• Implemented A/R and A/P procedures• Set up contracts with other companies• Trained Sales personnel on new roaming features • Reviewed daily reports • Minimized roamer fraud

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

• Roam A/P• Updated billing system • Updated the switch with new roamer exchanges• Maintained roamer and long distant fraud• Worked with other department to resolve customer complaints • Fostered up good relationships with roaming partners

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

• Processed dealer commissions and cell site taxes• Provided back up for A/P and payroll clerk