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Evanston, IL

Manage overall operations for services that we offer. Creating and implementing all marketing for the service. Cultivating and meeting with new clients to discuss pet care needs. Consultation for website development. Responsible for hiring, training and managing pet care associates. Scheduling, payroll, bookkeeping, and accounting.

Greater Chicago Area

• Provide analysis and insights of field audit data to client. Manage the pre-sales support process to effectively assist sales management in selling proposals projects to our clients.
• Create analysis and insights presentations for clients such as but not limited to Coke, Kraft, ConAgra, Beam Global, General Mills, Anheuser Busch, Alberto Culver, and Nestle Corporation.
• Work with the VP of Client Support to create a proposal template for the sales and consulting representatives to utilize for a more efficient proposal approval process.
• Achieved a 98% internal and external client satisfaction rating, with proposals and projects ‘done right the first time and on time”.
• Contributed in acquiring client projects worth up to $1,000,000 by working with cross-functional teams.
• As part of the Women at IRI Network I contributed to the creation and delivery of a company wide diversity survey to determine individual views of leadership opportunities within the company.

Manage the relationship between the contractors and the client. Meet with clients to discuss remodeling needs. Write proposals for the projects. Invoice for payment once the project is completed. Created documents that are used for proposals and invoices. Analyze expenses to determine profitability of projects.

Provided analysis using syndicated data to assist category buyers and account managers for Jewel Foods in making decisions for their categories. Responsible for carrying out analysis for 8 categories. Created analysis resulting in grow Jewels sales 5-15%.Assisted Jewel Foods in redesigning promotions and display placement for the infant care category.

Analyze and create plano-gram schematics to improve the profitability of the categories. Complete plano-gram proposals for new item presentations. Recommend products for distribution based onmarket analysis.Gained distribution on 17 products for the feminine care category at Eagle Foods, based on market analysis. Increased the dollar sales of the feminine.

Sold Kimberly Clark new items and created promotion plans working with Cub Foods in Chicago.

Sold new items and displays to various independent retailers in the Chicago market. Provided Monthly merchandising compliance reviews at retailers. Obtained 100% distribution for new items.Increased display buy-in of 50% for my customers.

Sales for Nabisco confectionery, snack and condiment products to a customer base of 16 key accounts in the Chicago area, with a sales volume of over $1 million. Territory consists of grocery, convenience store, variety and small drug accounts.Increased territory sales volume by 15% through development and execution of new, targeted sales.

Mba, Marketing And Economics

Activities and Societies: Toastmasters held office of President, VP of Education and VP of Membership.I was appointed to the Deans Honors.

Bs, Business

I majored in business and economics.