Taylor Crown Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

I support clients in the Food Away-From-Home industry solve their most pressing challenges and opportunities, by leveraging the largest global resource in strategy, management and IT consulting, technology delivery, creative and marketing, and operations. Combining deep industry experience across food, foodservice, and CPG companies with consulting acumen and a broad network.

Full time consulting project with a leading foodservice distributor on enterprise transformation. Modernizing capabilities across people, process, and technology within the Sales and Marketing functions. Currently engaged with food and foodservice industry clients driving large scale transformation redesigning & building modernized sales and marketing capabilities. Clients included food industry leaders, manufacturers and distributors (both retail and foodservice), and include leading organizational change management and functional design across Sales and Marketing. Client projects over the last few years include:- Leading foodservice distributor, multi-year full capabilities modernization. I led transformation across the sales & marketing domain transformation: people, process, technology- Hershey’s India- I led Organizational Change Management globally for Salesforce.com Rebates Management and CPGvision TPM - Hershey’s Mexico- I led Organizational Change Management for Salesforce.com Consumer Goods Cloud for Retail Execution in Mexico - UNFI - commercial / analytics capabilities

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Acosta is a full-service sales, marketing and service company for consumer packaged goods companies, with 100+ offices and 30K+ associates.Executive leadership of 700+ person, 55+ office, leading North American foodservice agency. P&L owner, fully accountable for business unit financial results (budget of $80M+). Direct reporting responsibility for all sales, marketing, finance, operations, insights, and client management team, with 300+ clients. Led development and implementation of business unit go to market strategy and transformation (people, process, technology).As a 'war time leader', I took over leadership after a rough series of business and personnel losses, and deployed a turnaround plan, centered on client and customer value while building a highly engaged, performance based culture. Within a short period our client satisfaction, team member engagement, and perception of our industry thought leadership all skyrocketed- then through the roughest patch in the foodservice industry's history, our company elevated our client and company performance, setting the stage for an acquisition, through which we became the largest foodservice sales and marketing agency in North America.

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Consulting executive within Trade Promotion Excellence group. Responsible for project leadership on large scale transformation work with consumer goods companies, including process assessment and future state design, technology systems integration, change management strategy, and complex project management across multiple workthreads, including client and other third-party teams.-Delivered, with team, $30M large-scale commercial front office transformation (process and technology) project at leading global candy and snack company, on time and budget to high client satisfaction, leading to $3M+ in add on work.

Dublin 2, Ie

Management Consulting executive, Consumer Goods Digital Customer & Channels practiceHeaded sale and delivery of multiple global sales transformation projects for large consumer goods firms, including global archetyping, Trade Promotion (TPM) strategy assessment and process redesign. Integrated business planning, including demand / supply planning, future state conceptual design, technical architecture, change management strategy, process definition and design. ‘Sales Innovation’ design thinking sessions. Foodservice industry leadership / subject matter advisor.

Springdale, Ar, Us

Sara Lee —> Hillshire Brands —> Tyson Foods through name changes and acquisition. Progression of roles from regional corporate accounts, broker / agency management, to national corporate account HQ responsibility for Legacy Foodservice Alliance and Performance Foodservice. Managed large, complex business, $55M+ in annual sales and $11M+ in trade marketing spend, with 3 businesses (poultry, prepared foods, bakery) that were largest in respective categories. Managed third-party sales agency and a large customer regional and national customer base.

T. Furr & Associates was a leading foodservice sales agency, ~$12M in revenue, 100+ employees in 5 offices, DBA ‘Buzz Crown Enterprises’. Today this legacy organization is a part of Waypoint, now known as Acxion Foodservice.Executive leadership team member, partner, and Entrepreneur, responsible for HR, Sales, Client Management, Finance and Operations for entire company. Clients included Tyson Foods, Nestle, Ocean Spray, J.M. Smuckers and others. Recruited, hired, trained and led large team of 100+, setting strategic direction and driving accountability and performance, client acquisition and management, and sales operations.

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English, Philosophy