Experience

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  Acosta Group

  • Boise, Idaho, United States

  • Business Intelligence | Customer & Category Insights | Albertsons Team

    • Feb 2023 - Present
    • Boise, Idaho, United States

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  Acosta Sales and Marketing Co

  • United States
  • Retail
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director Business Intelligence

    • Feb 2017 - Present

    Coordinate Albertsons Shopper 360 EYC CMS platform for Acosta internal teams and clients, which includes attending sales meetings, training internal associates and clients and serve as a resource between clients, Albertsons and Acosta.• Facilitate Albertsons Shopper 360 initiatives with Acosta internal associates, Acosta Clients, EYC and Albertsons• Assist EYC in demonstrating the benefit of purchasing EYC Shopper 360 data for Albertsons• Primary source of training and development on Business Intelligence for our region• Direct and supervise the development of Business Intelligence tools• Responsible for the leadership and management of a team of professionals

  • National Client Insights Manager

    • May 2016 - Feb 2017

    Coordinate with Acosta Internal teams and/or our clients to ensure that we are providing the appropriate Business Intelligence services to our National clients, which includes building relationships, attending sales meeting and serve as an a resource between our clients and Acosta Sales and Marketing.• Main point of contact within Business Intelligence and National Clients• Assist in preparing National Business reviews, based on syndicated data• Oversee and Develop client specific reports utilizing syndicated or customer scan data• Train Acosta teams regarding client strategies and objectives, to increase revenue for the client and Acosta • Coordinate with Acosta teams to ensure standardized syndicated data reports are accurate and timely

  • Customer Advisor Business Insights

    • Aug 2013 - May 2016

    Coordinate and maintain a partnership with business managers and clients in the development of strategic plans for category management • Work with analytics’ team to ensure data and presentations are completed with actionable and deliverable insights to drive sales• Provide marketing insights based on syndicated data to ensure sales execution of Category Management and other associated marketing enterprises within a designated department, client and customer.• Utilized established measures, guidelines and reporting structures to provide actionable information on team results

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  Mars

  • Boise

  • Category Manager

    • Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
    • Boise

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  Dean Foods

  • United States
  • Dairy Product Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager, Category & Consumer Insights

    • Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Manager, Category & Consumer Insights

    • Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

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  Happy Trails

  • Boise, Idaho Area

  • Buyer/General Manager

    • May 2009 - Aug 2013
    • Boise, Idaho Area

    Manage 8-15 employees for sales and fabrication business.• Oversee operations for Internet Sales, phone and showroom sales, shipping, fabrication and packaging• Responsible for meeting project sales goals, analyze metrics and report information back to the business• Work on management team to implement plans to sales, shipping and packaging staff along with all training• Develop and implement marketing and sales strategies to maintain growth of Dual Sport Motorcycle after market accessories along with Happy Trails owned production items

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  Kraft Foods Group

  • Boise, Idaho Area

  • Category Manager

    • Mar 2007 - May 2009
    • Boise, Idaho Area

    Built and maintained multiple categories with yearly sales goals of over $30 million which included revenue and market share objectives. Developed and implemented sales strategies which produced market share gains for Supervalu.• Coordinated and implemented sales between Kraft Foods and Supervalu• Optimized sales and market share by utilizing category analysis and strategic planning• Negotiated major contracts totaling over $500K per category• Developed business plans, managed promotions, pricing and product mix, maintaining market share in a difficult economy• Organized community events to increase product awareness and salesCustomer Category Manager CoordinatorFacilitated workflow and communications with Kraft Foods and Supervalu Category Managers. Including, implementing procedures for numerous projects to help minimize the workload for Category Managers resulting in increased share for the team.• Provided data and analytical support via Nielsen/IRI data• Saved over $100K by analyzing funding and deduction management• Facilitated and presented business reviews

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  ConAgra Foods

  • Boise, Idaho Area

  • Category Analyst

    • Oct 2005 - Mar 2007
    • Boise, Idaho Area

    Developed analytical approaches to increase team effectiveness and integrated with company systems.• Coordinated new item(s) initiatives with sales team and Albertsons• Utilized established measures, guidelines and reporting structures to provide actionable information on team results• Team point person on operating group’s trade management systems, including field sales training

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  Albertsons

  • Boise, Idaho Area

  • Item Integrity Group

    • Jan 2000 - Oct 2005
    • Boise, Idaho Area

    Responsible for managing a group of associates who set up all new item communications between Albertsons Inc and Vendors for all categories. • Coordinated new items within Corporate and Division Operations• Provided Retail Performance teams with needed Category Business Planning information• Responsible for training distribution procurement and staff on system data flow• Developed and implemented system enhancements, date flow and file rewrites• Business contact for special projects and provided Information Technology business resources