Janet Holt

• Responsible for all aspects of the supply chain cycle, developing trade markets, buying and selling of commodity food and agriculture items.
• Customers include retail, food service, manufacturers, further processors and distribution companies across the U.S and export trade into Canada.
• Negotiated prices for products and freight to reduce cost of acquisition to create greater trade margins.
• Established key relationships with major production facilities, transport and distribution companies.
• Responsible for extracting and sharing cdn/us daily market information, identifying new opportunities for arbitrage of whole grains, pulses, meat proteins, waste and dockage, coordinating freight logistics both truck and rail car.

• Responsible for sales and growth of a food start up that manufactured large format, fully steam-cooked, ancient grains, seeds and pulses for the foodservice industry.
• Developed manufacturing partnerships, distributor and industrial food account relationships.
• Attended trade show and events to evangelize products and generate leads
• Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
• Defined company roles and responsibilities to establish and enhance processes.
• Forged the way to being a preferred vendor of the Compass Food Group doing business with customers such as Google, Intel, Rivian, Delta Airlines, and Zoup!
• Proud to be a WBENC company.
• Awarded The Good Food Award 2021, Best New Product 2019 and Best in Show 202 at the New York International Food and Restaurant Show

• Responsible for developing out a marketplace for a new specialty grain portfolio focusing on new potential customers, hunting for new business, research and market information and discovery, building relationships of trust from cold calling, talking with major industry sectors including food manufacturing, corporate bakeries, distributors both retail and foodservice
• Identified new growth opportunities with companies like Snak King, Milmar Foods, California Cereal.
• Helped to establish ingredient formats, new product applications, and co-manufacturing relationships.
• Traveled to trade shows and events to evangelize products, answer questions and close contracts.

Focused on company's profitability and business development with an emphasis on sales, product launches, trade shows, and vendor relationships. Customers included Whole Foods Market, Costco, Fred Meyers and Albertson's. Responsible for the roll out of value-added food items leading to multi-million dollar distribution and sales deals.