Sophia Esquivel

Project Manager @Taylor Farms

Serves as the key liaison with National Account Champions to support all plant involvement which supports national customers. • Manages all plant communications aspects across multiple departments to ensure all relevant direction and changes are followed. This involves both new and discontinued products. • Troubleshooting and solution-based approach to daily challenges across multiple departments (QA, Buying, Operations, R&D, Commercialization, Transportation, Customer Service) • Creates/Manages product specifications for new and revised products • Assist R&D & Commercialization on innovation as well as recipe development based on customer strategy. • Works closely with procurement on new and discontinued items to ensure ingredient inventories are managed effectively • Develops price modeling which requires understanding multiple operational practices such as labor, overhead, efficiency planning • Assist with National Bid pricing for key customers • Sales analysis and ongoing tracking of customer product sets supported by plant