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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Providing insights and thought leadership across multiple brands in the sweetener category.

Paris, Fr

Built and managed two teams as the central hub for data, reporting, and insights. Created systems to combine data from IRI, Nielsen, SPINs, Stackline, and POS across multiple countries into one wholistic toolkit. Designed innovation guide rails with market insights and modeled forecasts based on pricing/distribution scenarios. Developed a Category Manifesto with wide ranging insights distilling a big picture view of the total active nutrition marketplace with actionable insights on how to win for sales, base marketing, and future innovation. Gained category captaincy with Vega’s largest US and CA retailers while advising priority retailers on assortment, pricing, and placement. Helped bring focus to massive shift in ecommerce during the pandemic and developed tools to optimize traffic, conversion, and promotion versus competition.

Paris, Fr

Led the Coffee Creamers and Beverage division of the COE team developing best practices, merchandising guidelines, and national insights. Partnered to help build the Dairy Future Vision, a suite of insights and best practices to manage the entire dairy department. Created the Best In Class Retailer toolkit to show what the best performing retailers in each dairy category were doing in terms of the 4 P’s then benchmarked them against other retailers allowing field category managers to provide not only objective best practices but show the opportunity that adopting them could bring in dollars, foot traffic, conversion, and trade up. Provided organization wide support and training for space planning software and processes.

Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

Developed national merchandising strategies, created BIC assortment tools (internal and external), and created processes for maximum POG efficiency with high levels of customization. Ranked opportunities in all retailers and focused on gaining category partnerships where ROI was greatest. Removed top competitor from their role as a top US retailer's captain and took over captaincy, shifted retailer trends from negative 10-14% to double digit positive results. Managed national category team to instill best practices across regional and local category managers and set up a traveling “road show” to bring hands on expertise to all US regions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Increased category captaincies in key retailers, new strategies improved profitability by 5% to 22%. Created “Right-Sizing” toolkit to identify optimal amount of aisle space in every outlet, worked with retailers across the country to optimize aisle sizes resulting in dramatic decreases in returns/shrink and out of stocks. Worked with top US retailer to streamline POG process, improved output and halved the amount of time spent on POGs. Created category story on what best in class retailers do and don't do with the category.

Purchase, New York, Us

Worked up the Sales ladder from frontline to analyst and then took over Category Management. Developed tools for analytics, forecasting, and data management. Provided insights on pricing strategies, distribution execution, and category trends. Score-carded incentives, sales initiatives, and product launches. Brought frontline experience to management, refocusing on execution, ROI efficient programming, and streamlined agendas. Balanced national direction and local prioritization to build brands and grow market share while maximizing sales volume and margin dollars. Met with clients to build chain and store specific POGs by leveraging sales data, market share, demographics, and margins. Created “Standards” books detailing best practices by channel. Planned and implemented region’s launch of Rockstar brand.