Alan Dickerson Email & Phone Number

Iving, Tx

Manage the Council Community, Council roster database, and Council recruitment process.

Iving, Tx

Continuous work at Broadlane/MedAssets/Vizient due to buyouts.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Clinical Advisory TeamConduct industry market research, survey committee members, reporting approved contractsProject Management for new eSourcing platform implementation and user support for four internal departments

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Advocate Account TeamManaged project timelines, organized meeting, analyzed data analysis, and created presentations

Plano, Tx

Utilized MedAssets data sources, primarily SI, to analyze financial impact of contracts, looked for non-contract spend and found potential contracts, validated data integrity, consulted and presented to client managers and clients

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Kaiser Permanente Account TeamNew position developing methodologies for market research, analyzing client information, accessing internal data, commercial sources, benchmarking costs, project management and reporting. • Created reports on industry trends, market conditions, cost drivers, major vendors and significant developments to support project strategy and contract negotiations• Tracked project milestones and created client facing project progress reports • Utilize industry, market, financial and government reports/data, client internal usage data and many other sources for research and analysis• Researched and recommended commercial data sources and methodologies. • Financial analysis of transactional information to determine impact of changes to agreements by usage groups

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Quickly adapted skills to modify and create methodologies to determine best markets for entry, ideal site locations and number of stores per market. Utilized data from customer and store sales, created custom surveys, used secondary sources from census, MRI, Simmons. • Improved methodologies for multi-market businesses to identify opportunities for expansion or store improvement• Presented and explained methodology to increase client confidence in research system• Developed ranking system for new market entry or expansion• Identified best real estate locations based on customer and trade area profiles • Created scoring system to rank site locations • Determined co-tenancy impact on store performance• Developed test and control markets to evaluate retail financial performance• Surveyed store management for real estate, expansion and renovation recommendations

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Database marketing analysis; including segmentation, promotion ROI analysis, internet usage/profitability analysis, secondary data sources and primary research when needed. Utilized decision trees to identify prospects and increase marketing program ROI. Analyzed reward program membership behavior overtime to determine impact of promotions.

Masters, Market Research

B.S., Business, Communications