+Responsible for Category Development for the Ahold Banners in the Breakfast Sausage, Frozen Breakfast, Frozen Snacking and Frozen Sweet Goods categories. +Responsible for brand development strategies for my brands - Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee and State Fair Brands.+Development of customer category reviews/business reviews, planogram development, top to top presentations and new item presentations (core and innovation) leveraging all syndicated data sources. (IRI, Fresh Facts, Spectra, Panel)+Leverage Ahold specific consumer insights through their shopper card data (EYC) to drive incremental sales. Conduct Quarterly business reviews with Ahold utilizing their shopper insights data.+Responsible for monthly reporting updates for internal business partners as well as external Ahold partners to support our JBP planning.+Collaborate with cross-functional team partners on various business issues. +Responsible for maintaining team trackers for new item and core item distribution.+Contribute to shelving and assortment recommendations thru the use of Space Planning software providing planograms for all customer presentation needs.

Value Chain Coordinator:+Forecast Base & Promotional volume for Stop & Shop, Giant Landover & Giant Carlisle for Hillshire Farm, Ball Park & Jimmy Dean Brands.+Use provided forecasting tools to review current base volume trends vs. prior year base volume trends as well as promotional history.+Daily PO maintenance required to make necessary adjustments(up or down) to incoming orders.+Collaborate with Sara Lee & Ahold Logistics personnel to ensure timely and accurate deliveries.+Review post promotion inventory levels to determine if any actions need to be taken on any short code-dated product.+Coordinate product allocations with Ahold buying personnel to arrive at the most accurate forecast for promotional volume needs.

+ Responsible for Grocery/C-Store & Drug Channel Planogram development for the New England, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes and Mid-West Regions. Accounts I have worked closely with: Stop & Shop/Giant Landover, Shaw’s, Shoppers, Farm Fresh, Ukrop’s, Hannaford, Demoula’s, Price Chopper, Big Y, ACME, Giant Carlisle, Weis, Wegman’s, TOPS, Penn Traffic, A&P, Pathmark, ShopRite, Meijer, Jewel, Marsh, Roundy’s, Biggs, Schnuck’s, Supervalu, Cumberland Farms, Xtra Mart, Turkey Hill, FL Roberts, Rite Aid and CVS+ Working very closely with Internal Sales team as well as my customers+ Conduct category reviews & analysis+ Provide national level analysis on promo performance, execution and return on investment+ Deliver formal presentations containing valuable, un-biased recommendations for both internal corporate use and retail customer meetings+ Contribute to annual customer planning process.+ Publish and provide scheduled scorecard reporting for both the NorthEast and Mid West territories.

Worked in various Space Management roles inside S&S with Marketing Specialists, Eastern Sales & Marketing and Acosta Sales & Marketing from 1999 - 2004.

+ Created Space Planning planograms for Pet Food and Enhancers Category(baking needs, wholesome snacks, peanut butter & jelly, condiments, hot and cold cereals, oils & vinegars, non-dsd salty snacks). + Analyzing all planograms using internal scan data provided by S&S and providing recommendations and changes.+ Assist in full category reviews of the categories I was responsible for. This includes and analyzing the data and making recommendations and providing full sets of planograms for categories(sometimes 100-200 pogs for one category).+ Routine planogram maintenance for New Items, Dimension Changes, Codes Changes, etc.+ Communicate daily with internal S&S ISE Renew teams out at store level. These communications include providing essential information on proper placement of items/codes, planograms, etc.

+ Created Space Planning planograms for Frozen Food and Dairy and implemented them at store level.+ Responsible for running and maintaining a Reset Team provided by the other Food Brokers. The team consisted of 8 FT and 4 PT reps that I was responsible for at store level.+ Assist in full category reviews of the categories I was responsible for. This includes and analyzing the data and making recommendations and providing full sets of planograms for categories(sometimes 100-200 pogs for one category).+ Routine planogram maintenance for New Items, Dimension Changes, Codes Changes, etc.+ Communicate daily with internal S&S ISE Renew teams out at store level. These communications include providing essential information on proper placement of items/codes, planograms, etc.

+ Created Space Planning planograms for Frozen Food and Dairy and implemented them at store level.+ Responsible for running and maintaining a Reset Team provided by the other Food Brokers. The team consisted of 8 FT and 4 PT reps that I was responsible for at store level.+ Assist in full category reviews of the categories I was responsible for. This includes and analyzing the data and making recommendations and providing full sets of planograms for categories(sometimes 100-200 pogs for one category).+ Routine planogram maintenance for New Items, Dimension Changes, Codes Changes, etc.+ Communicate daily with internal S&S ISE Renew teams out at store level. These communications include providing essential information on proper placement of items/codes, planograms, etc.+ Early on in 1998 and 1999, I was part of a Grocery Renew Team(all brokers with a S&S lead) that was responsible for doing full store resets, remodels, new stores and special projects.