Mondelez International names president of U.S. sales

East Hanover, N.J. — Mondelez International has named Valerie Oswalt president, U.S. sales, effective April 1.



In this role, Oswalt will lead all direct-store-delivery retail and customer headquarter activities for the company’s snacks and confectionery businesses in the United States, supporting a product portfolio that generates annual revenues of approximately $6 billion and includes such brands as belVita, Halls, Honey Maid, Oreo, Ritz, Sour Patch Kids, Stride, Trident, Triscuit and Wheat Thins. She will be based in East Hanover, N.J.



Oswalt joined the company in 1996 as a sales finance analyst based in Chicago, and has progressed through a broad range of cross-functional roles within the customer team, retail, supply chain, strategy and finance organizations, in both field and headquarters assignments.



Most recently, Oswalt was VP, sales, West Area, a position to which she was appointed in 2012. Prior to that, she spent a year as customer VP for business development, playing a key leadership role in establishing two distinct customer teams and retail sales organizations to support the Kraft Foods/Mondelez International businesses as they divided into two independent public companies.



Among her many career highlights, Oswalt held the role of Walmart customer VP of beverage and grocery from 2008 to 2010, during which time she and her team delivered successive revenue and share growth for the business and were named Walmart’s “Supplier of the Year.”