Key Account Manager - WA & AK @ Key Account Manager for all chains in Washington State and Alaska From October 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaKey Account Manager - WA @ Key Account Manager for all chains in Washington State From March 2012 to October 2014 (2 years 8 months) Redmond, WACategory Manager @ Category Manager for Western Control Division, WA/OR/ID/UT From March 2011 to March 2012 (1 year 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaKey Account Manager @ Controlled Forecasts, Closed Sales Presentations, Placed Ads, and Created Marketing Programs for over 12 Chain Banners in WA state ranging from Grocery, Drug, and Mass. From July 2007 to March 2011 (3 years 9 months) Greater Seattle AreaNational Analyst / Technology Trainer @ Worked at HQ testing software for category management as well as new employee instructor for Microsoft Excel, Access, and JDA Pro Space From June 2006 to June 2007 (1 year 1 month) Modesto, California AreaCategory Manager / College Recruiter @ Analyst in Chicago for 2 Grocery chains in the Midwest. Category Manager responsibilities included data analysis, plannogramming, and reporting for both grocery clients and account managers at the winery. College recruiter for Indiana University. From May 2004 to June 2006 (2 years 2 months) Greater Chicago AreaCategory Manager @ Category Manager for independant liquor and grocery accounts. From March 2003 to April 2004 (1 year 2 months) Greater Chicago AreaDistrict Manager @ District Sales Manager for wine sales in five sales territories in Chicago, IL. Acted as manager to five sales representatives and one merchandiser. Attended and orchestrated major sales presentations, trained new reperesentatives, and gave presentations for monthly sales initiatives to the sales teams. From August 2002 to April 2003 (9 months) Greater Chicago AreaSales Representative @ Sales representative for the Gallo wine portfolio. Sold in monthly programming to grocery stores in a sales territory on the western border of Chicago, IL From May 2001 to August 2002 (1 year 4 months) Intern @ the Monarch Beverage internship was an intensive summer immersion job that gave early access and experience to the beer & wine industry. Interns merchandised stores performed sales calls, participated in marketing events, work with beer draft technicians, and other assorted mechanisms in the distributor world. This internship was critical to my successful interviews for the Gallo Winery during my senior year in college. From 2000 to 2000 (less than a year) Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Marketing/Management Double Major, Business @ Indiana University Bloomington From 1996 to 2001 Leith McAlister is skilled in: Grocery, Wine, Pricing, Sales, Sales Operations, Management, Sales Presentations, Key Account Development, Retail, Marketing, Alcoholic Beverages, Beer, IRI, Beverage Industry, Forecasting