Rod Bambach
Vice President - Sales
- Role
- Vice President - Sales at Pascha Chocolate
- Location
- Charleston, SC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rod Bambach
Forward-thinking SENIOR-LEVEL SALES EXECUTIVE with 20 years of expertise in the national consumer products goods industry. Broad experience includes achieving targeted team/individual sales, leadership, strategic planning and new business development. Accomplished Sales Executive with strong record of developing new business and improving both team and individual performance by leading, training and coaching. Strengths include strategic sales planning, key account presentations and management, marketing activities, market and competitor analysis, staff training and development. Effective combination of analytical and interpersonal skills as well as quantitative skills for business budgeting and planning processes.• Experience pioneering brands across multiple channels: natural, conventional, club, mass, specialty including private label.• Proven track record with established brands as well as start-ups.• Passion for mission-based organizations.• Secured distribution in and managed key National and Regional Accounts including Wal-Mart, Costco, Target, Safeway, Kroger, Whole Foods, HEB, Meijer, Giant Eagle, Costco, Sprouts• Management of regional and national distributors including UNFI, KeHe.• Implementation and management of national and regional broker networks
Experience
Vice President - Sales
Jan 2022 — Present
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BA, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
1984 — 1988
Skills
- Ac Nielsen
- Competitive Analysis
- National Accounts
- Budgets
- Nielsen
- Purchasing
- Business Development
- Sales
- Wholesale
- Categorization
- Natural Foods
- Food & Beverage
- Coaching
- Sales Operations
- Pricing Strategy
- Strategic Planning
- Spectra
- Retail
- Management
- Private Label
- Food Industry
- Sourcing
- Direct Store Delivery
- Forecasting
- Retail Category Management
- Trade Marketing
- Distributors
- Pricing
- Sales Management
- Sales Presentations
- Merchandising
- Organic Products
- Shopper Marketing
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Brand Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Packaging
- Marketing Strategy
- Key Account Development
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