Shawn Kuhlman Email & Phone Number

Travelers Rest, South Carolina, Us

Travelers Rest, South Carolina, Us

I’m supporting T&S customers and building the brand by expanding the T&S network, developing new markets and customers throughout Latin America and Canada, and helping people achieve their sustainability goals with high quality, reliable T&S solutions.

Led the newly formed Distribution segment or Retail Foodservice with $20M in sales of Prince Castle & Silver King commercial foodservice equipment (hot, cold & small wares) to our general market & regional chain business globally. Set the budget, monitored the P&L, strategically established equipment and parts pricing, put in place sales metric tools to measure success, and leveraged our network of manufacturer's sales representatives, dealers, and stocking distributors to help grow company sales by 10% in 2016. Also managed direct sale key accounts, new product releases, projects, value engineering/cost reduction efforts, long term growth strategies, and general sales & marketing strategies.

Leading the sales & marketing efforts to select strategic global foodservice chain accounts that fall under the Global Brands business unit of Prince Castle / Silver King. Includes key account management, new product development, project management, and applying 80/20 principles to assure focus and profitable bottom line growth. I'm also an ISO 9001:2008 team leader.

Now managing the global technical service and international sales & marketing for our dedicated McDonald's business unit. Previously under the same title I was managing international sales & marketing for all our international customers.

Oversee all international sales and marketing efforts for this global manufacturing company of commercial restaurant equipment.

Oversaw all international sales and marketing efforts for Europe, Latin America, and Canada for this global manufacturing company of commercial restaurant equipment.

As a manufacturing company of commercial restaurant equipment used globally, I managed sales and marketing to select US fast food chains, dealers, distributors, as well as all of Canada.

As a manufacturing company of meat processing equipment used globally, I assisted Vice President of Sales with managing of all U.S. based Regional Sales Representatives, Catalog Sales Department (parts & accessories), Customer Service, Quotations department, as well as setting pricing, etc.

As a manufacturing company of meat processing equipment used globally, I managed their Catalog Sales Department (parts & accessories), and Customer Service. Required frequent travel with outside salesmen and international distributors for technical sales support of equipment, parts and sharpening services.

As a global manufacturer of meat processing and sharpening equipment, I focused on sales and development of several new product lines to include the Cozzini Ergo Steel, Bone Collection Systems, Buffing Machine, Scissors Sharpener, new Slicer Blades and Sharpening Services

I developed sales of capital equipment and parts to the meat and food industry in the 14 Northeastern states from my home office in Pennsylvania

B.S., General Business

Summer School, Business In Latin America Program