How did you get to work with the company?
At first, knowing little about Dial, I was not interested in the company as a job prospect.  As I researched the company, the many opportunities offered by Dial were made clear to me by discovering the remarkable people the company attracts.  I started as an Account Executive in California calling on key accounts. Soon I was offered the opportunity to move into Trade Marketing for the Personal Cleansing business and relocated to Arizona. Following I had several creative unique positions that included Sales Director for ISC, where we sold private label soaps and candles to specialty shops and department stores.  I was able to use my Spanish skills as the manufacturing facility was in Guatemala. Moving on from there, I was Sales Director managing a sales team for specialty personal care products, which includes bath and body care type products. Afterwards I managed a team at Dial in Puerto Rico as General Manager and once again was able to utilize my Spanish skills.  Back in the U.S., I went into Sales Operations working with the Special Markets team including Target, Drug and K-Mart. Over the past 18 months, I have been working as the Director of Sales for the Safeway team.

What does your day-to-day work look like?
Each day is different and very challenging. I work with the Safeway account, which is headquartered in Northern California. Safeway is one of the Top 16 accounts within the Dial Corporation in the U.S.  My responsibility is to grow profitable sales, work on developing distribution, pricing, merchandising and create unique customer marketing programs for Safeway. I work hand in hand managing our broker partner Advantage, who is our liaison between Dial and the Safeway account.  It’s a very rewarding job especially when meeting the expectations, growing the business, gaining distribution and reaching new heights at Safeway.

What about the term "learning on the job"?
Everyday, to this day, is a lesson in sales.  In general, you’re learning from day one on when entering a new assignment, e.g. when I was managing a team in Puerto Rico it was the first time for me working in a different country with a different culture. I learned very quickly by experience, by communicating with the people and the customers. Every day I learn something new, especially with and from the people I work with.  Doing the best job with available resources and seeing the process bloom into great results is very rewarding.

What distinguishes the company from other companies?
Dial is an elegant company where professionalism can flourish.  Dial sets itself apart by its image, its pride in itself and the way it treats its employees is a reflection on this.  Additionally the “people” are who have made Dial the company that it is today.  Dial is strong in diversity and supports cross-functional learning abilities. That’s something a lot of companies don’t offer to their employees. Henkel has worldwide known brands and at the moment there is a lot of innovation rising from our parent company reflecting on what we are doing here at Dial. The company gives its employees the possibility to make professionalism blossom.