Sarah Bard
Brand & Customer Success Manager
Carolina Canners, Inc.
Sarah Bard serves as Brand & Customer Success Manager at Carolina Canners, where she acts as the central liaison between production, brand partners, and executive leadership for the company’s non-alcoholic beverage portfolio. She ensures seamless execution of brand standards, contract compliance, and customer satisfaction across CCI’s company-owned distribution network.
With a background in global procurement innovation and commercialization at PepsiCo, Sarah brings a Fortune 100 lens to brand execution—bridging strategy and operations to drive growth, efficiency, and elevated brand performance.
Career & Industry Leadership
Sarah began her career at PepsiCo Corporate, where she served as a Procurement Innovation & Commercialization Senior Analyst. During her 3.5 years there, she led the commercialization of more than 50 beverage innovation and sustainability projects—ensuring packaging availability, graphic quality, and compliance with sustainability standards across global supply chains.
She streamlined cross-functional collaboration between suppliers, global procurement, supply chain, and brand innovation teams to support successful product launches. Sarah also spearheaded a portfolio-wide tab reduction initiative, reducing tab colors from 24 to 7 and generating approximately $2 million in cost savings.
In addition, she led a cross-functional stretch assignment to develop a visibility platform identifying out-of-network plant shipments, reducing freight inefficiencies and strengthening procurement oversight. She presented findings to senior vice presidents and procurement leadership, reinforcing her ability to translate data into executive-level insights.
Now at Carolina Canners, Sarah applies her commercialization and analytics background to strengthen brand partnerships, improve operational alignment, and drive disciplined brand growth across the distribution network.
Technical & Operational Expertise
Sarah combines brand development strategy with operational fluency, including:
Brand commercialization & launch execution
Cross-functional stakeholder alignment
KPI tracking
Packaging development & supplier coordination
Process improvement & cost optimization
Her experience spans procurement, packaging innovation, sustainability initiatives, production alignment, and customer success strategy—allowing her to integrate brand vision with operational execution.
STRATEGIC FOCUS
Brand Growth & Portfolio Expansion
Customer & Partner Relationship Management
Operational Alignment Across Production & Distribution
Contract & Brand Standard Compliance
Data & Analytics-Driven Decision Making
Launch Readiness & Commercial Execution
Sarah’s leadership style is relationship-driven and growth-focused. She prioritizes clear communication, proactive problem-solving, and building trusted partnerships that enable brands to scale efficiently within CCI’s production and distribution ecosystem.
Q U I C K I N F O
Brand & Customer Success Manager
Carolina Canners, Inc
sarah.bard@carolinacanners.com
943-519-1033
Brand Execution, Commercialization, Analytics, Cross-Functional Strategy
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Master of Science in Applied Analytics — Columbia University
Bachelor’s Degree - Finance — Pace University
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