Kalon Executive Search & Staffing will find you the right match in any health & wellness sector, including nutrition, beauty, and fitness. Here are our top 4 candidates of the week:
Gil – Marketing & Sales Executive
- Gil is an experienced sales, marketing & management executive with USA and International brands in food, ingredients, confections, private label, food service, and beauty brands, specializing in developing new market channels and enhancing existing ones.
- He has extensive knowledge of dairy and other ingredients from his time as a COO and President of subsidiaries.
- With marketing experience encompassing brand management and tailored marketing programs per country and channels to draw customer attention, Gil has consistently driven increased sales.
- He has extensive international negotiation experience, having worked with over 1,000 suppliers in Europe, Asia, Latin America, The Middle East, and the Caribbean.
- Gil possesses a wealth of expertise in food, beverage, confections, snacks, health & beauty products, and other CPG products.
- Also, he has successfully navigated partnership negotiations with 2 popular retail and food and beverage brands in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Olivia – VP of International Business Development
- Olivia’s 20-year career journey in the food, beverage, nutraceuticals, and supplement industries has uniquely equipped her with the skills and experience to excel in the VP of International Business Development role.
- She has a proven track record of developing and executing successful sales strategies, as evidenced by the following key accomplishments:
- As the Sales Director at a food company, she achieved a 4% increase in profit margin in 2023.
- At a protein platform company, she developed a robust pipeline and moved key new opportunities to successful sales and product launches, despite a competitive market.
- At another food company, she built strong product positioning and increased margin by 10% compared to budget targets and up 15% compared to the prior year.
- She has a proven track record of developing and executing successful sales strategies, as evidenced by the following key accomplishments:
- Olivia played a crucial role in successfully introducing pea protein to the USA market, significantly increasing market share and revenue.
- She secured multiple-year contracts, doubled the projected sales volume and revenue, and sold out the plant.
- Olivia has a strong track record of partnering with the world’s largest brands and emerging companies, driving significant value creation, and contributing to research and development projects and product launches.
- These projects encompass various functional attributes (flavor masking, stability and texture improvement, boosts, binders, fillers, enhancements, shelf-life extension, and fortifications) and benefits (gut, heart, and brain health, muscle growth, weight loss, clean label).
- She collaborated successfully with various premier food and beverage companies.
- Olivia’s experience living and working on two continents, coupled with fluency in multiple languages, has endowed her with a global perspective and a profound understanding of diverse cultural dynamics and challenges.
- This has enabled her to effectively manage critical accounts in South America and select, onboard, and train distributors in Latin America.
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Andy – Sales Professional
- Andy is a highly experienced sales professional with an extensive and diversified background in the life sciences.
- He has brought growth and profits to each of his roles in the past 12 years of his professional career, and is a supreme advocate for health, life science, and well-being.
- Since graduating from USC with a Bachelor’s in Human Biology, he has combined his science degree and sales skills to be a constant sales champion in each role.
- He is a major advocate for health, life science, and longevity.
- Andy has generated over 20 cold clients to repeat order clients in the first year of his current role and brought in over $1.2M in total sales for his current role selling lab consumables to universities, research centers, biotech companies, etc–many of which are interloped with this industry.
- Andy has grown his territory by a minimum of 100% in each of the sales roles he has taken, continuously earning awards and recognitions for his success, such as the coveted President’s Club award at a pharmaceutical company, given only to the top 12 representatives in the nation out of 500 sales representatives.
- Andy understands his territory extremely well and is very well connected in his networks, especially in Southern California.
- With over 10 years of experience in B2B sales, pharmaceutical sales, and biotech sales, he is an ideal sales candidate.
- In addition, he has successful experience helping to launch brand new products to market and continuously ranks amongst top sales leaders.
- He can handle diverse responsibilities, including leading an effective sales team.
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Chris – Business Development Executive
- Chris is a distinguished sales and business development executive in the Evidence-Based Nutritional Ingredients and Natural Products industries, renowned for exceptional leadership and strategic vision.
- Chris led market expansion efforts at a health company, drove significant growth for premier partner companies, and built distributor networks at PLT Health Solutions.
- Chris played a key role in establishing a health company as a global brand, orchestrating strategic alliances, and implementing effective sales strategies resulting in exponential growth.
- He excels in transforming sales and marketing teams into customer-centric units, achieving significant increases in sales volume and profitability while maintaining strong relationships with distributors and direct accounts.
- With extensive experience developing international networks, Chris has built and managed distribution systems across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the EMEA regions, collaborating with key industry players.
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