Lebanon, Ohio, United States
Passionate and strategic Sales Manager who has repeatedly delivered double digit sales growth, margin enhancement and profitability for national foodservice companies. Excel at strengthening both the internal sales processes as well as customer relationships at all levels. Successful senior sales professional with extensive sales and leadership skills, comprehensive new product development experience resulting in multiple successful national product launches. Adept at managing cross functional departments, both internal and external, resulting in a more focused approach to problem solving. Action oriented management experience of the nation’s largest foodservice brands.
Support customer development to Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell
Manage top Foodservice Chains Eastern US Region
•Set strategic direction for business plans for each account •Manage product projects both new concept and existing CORE product improvement initiatives from concept to commercialization •Understand customers strategic business plan and how Bama fits into it •Understand core competencies and how we can best align with our customers •Organize project teams in developing and implementing strategic action plans
- Key successes include the major product launch of the KFC SNAKER Sandwich concept beginning in March of 2005 resulting in the most successful new product introduction in KFC history with over 100 Million units sold in 2005 and over $15MM in incremental sales.