Highlights:
-Developed new major accounts and established excellent personal relationships. (Dean, Unilever Heinz, Kraft, Fannie May)
-Responsible for negotiating commodity supply contracts with major accounts. Typical contracts range from several thousand to several million dollars.
-Established direct relationships with existing customer’s R&D and QC departments for product approvals as well as new product testing and development.
-Established company’s brand within the industry as a major industrial ingredient supplier. This was accomplished through specific advertising, trade show presence, targeted flyers and mailings and increasing industrial sales volume by $12 million over 7 years. (4% of company sales to 24%)
Companies I like:
Coca Cola, Nike, Addidas
Responsible for leading industrial sales and marketing strategies of ingredients and comodities across multiple industry segments. Sales focus included nuts, dried fruits, chocolates and new and existing flavors. Developed major customers within the Baking, Dairy and Confection industries as well as Retailers, Food Service and other processors/rebaggers.