Alicia Harmon Email & Phone Number

East Central Metro & West Central Wi

Owner of SYNERGY HomeCare of East Central Metro & West Central WI. SYNERGY HomeCare helps care for people affected by age or illness; allowing them to live where they call home. SYNERGY HomeCare is proud to offer a full range of non-medical home care services, i.e. companionship care, light housekeeping, errand services and meal preparation. www.synergyhomecare.com

-Scope, develop and implement new business models and processes that deliver measurable results of value, efficiency and quality for Target. -Lead multiple business channels and teams including Sourcing, Inventory Planning, Merchandising and Store Operations to problem solve and achieve Target objectives.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Source, negotiate and manage relationships with vendors and manufacturers representing over $1B in Domestics production out of Asia and Europe.-Recognized as a leader in building strong business partnerships to drive improved profit, ensure reliability and quality production while innovating to improve efficiency and agility.-Provide proactive, creative problem solving to ensure equitable solutions for product, pricing, and sourcing strategies for merchants, product development and business partners.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Responsible for creating the merchandise strategies and action plans which include assortment, presentation, pricing and promotion. -Built strong partnerships internally with Presentation, Marketing, Pricing, Finance, Promotions, Merchant Planning and externally with Vendors to achieve sales, revenue, profit and turnover goals.-Understanding of business financials and trends to deliver merchandising results.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Developed a negotiation and vendor strategy to support business despite economic challenges and rising costs; designating vendors, cost engineering and long term contracts. Understanding of the different levers that can be pulled to drive down costs and increase profit.-Directly trained, coached, and led three team members through onboarding at Target and within the department. -Drove critical sourcing strategies with cross functional team to influence business strategy with deep global insight.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-As a member of the team helped to achieve a penetration rate of 45.6% of total Target cost purchases, saved $326M and sourced $16.7B for Target Corporation in 2009.-Ability and knowledge to negotiate strategic trade-offs.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Managed National Brand and Owned Brand inventory needs through numerous transitions and brand launches.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked as support staff for an organization that was the primary educational and advocacy organization for the aging population in Minnesota. Worked on everything from the monthly finances to leading over 20 trips to Canada for Elders to find affordable health care. In it prime the MN Senior Federation had over 40,000 members. Worked extensively on prescription drug costs, long term care, affordable housing, transportation, church and aging issues.