Wendy Wexler: Sales Manager in San Diego, California

Regional Account Executive Foodservice West RGN (Hain Celestial)-Advantage Solutions-Salt Lake City, UT11/22-Present ● Sales to broadline distribution food channels, national accounts, and regional national food chains. ● Serve as the agency relationship manager with the client to ensure their needs and objectives achieved through execution of strategically grounded marketing programs. ● Deliver measurable results to the client for their brands through program management. National Sales Foodservice Manager- Passport Foods LLC Ontario, CA 3/22-8/22 ● Develop business relationships with potential and existing foodservice: distributors, brokers, chains, and operators to maintain and expand sales as identified in annual sales budget. ● Leads and maintains all customer documentation and support. ● Establishes and maintains accurate forecasting by customer and product. ● Recommend products to foodservice operators, based on operators' menu needs and interests. ● Contact current and prospective distributors/operators to demonstrate products and explain product features and benefits. ● Provide on-going support to existing customers including offering resolution of problems, questions, and concerns. ● Monitor market conditions, product innovation, menu trends and competitors' products, prices, and sales.

● Sold premium coffee/espresso equipment and coffee to hotels, restaurant chains, cafes, business, and industry. ● All coffee sales were funneled and sold through distribution.

● Sales of Dinnerware, Flatware and Serveware into Hotel Chain Accounts, Foodservice accounts. ● Work with Food and Beverage Directors, Executive Chefs, Banquets and Stewards ordering products for dining, banquets and in room dining and corporate events. ● Qualified prospects based on analysis of sales volume and patterns, assessed customer concerns with existing supplier relations, and established pricing and service levels to meet customer needs.

Consulted with Food and Beverage and CPG startups to develop their internal sales methods and landing key regional and national accounts.

● Sold sausage casings and meat snack casings within the Western US. ● Increased sales by over 63% within my accounts and distributors in the Western US. ● Set up meetings with new potential customers; attend Trade Shows in the USA and Europe. ● Managed 2 distributors and 1 broker to achieve sales and distribution targets with retail and foodservice customers. ● Achieved high gross dollar sales for Kosher and Halal products.

Western Regional Sales to Michelin Star Restaurants, 5-star Hotels of fine porcelain Dinnerware ● Sell to Chef's, Distributors, Chain Accounts within the region. ● Performed over budget 2 years in a row in the Retail and Hospitality Sector, over $300,000 in sales.

● Sales Revenue Responsibility $6-million-dollar territory ● Manage over 300 accounts, P&L within regions. ● Increase up to 4 new dealers-distributors per month.

● Responsible for the Sales Revenue of $6 million-dollar territory that included 150 managed accounts. ● Directly worked with Regional and District General Managers to increase revenue and profit within their account base in their District and Region.

● Built territory from the ground up, servicing 65 accounts representing $2 million in annual sales. ● Achieved top growth percentage over previous year for Northern California region. ● Received and processed all stock orders, set up special orders from a database of over 100,000 product line items, and maintained relationships with manufacturers.

● Earned Top Sales Achievement Award servicing 25 accounts in the San Francisco, Bay Area and Northern California region. ● Managed 200 accounts within Northern California Region

East India Coffee & Tea Company, Organic Coffee Company, and Fairwinds Coffee Company