Alissa Kramer Email & Phone Number

Happy Valley, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, United States

Provide strategic guidance and expert advice to support the organization's mission of offering a home-away-from-home for families with seriously ill children. Collaborating with leadership, leveraging my professional network, and offering insights on fundraising, community outreach, and program development, ensuring the sustainability and growth of services, helping the charity to make a meaningful impact on the families it serves.

1st hire, lead multiple departments, helping grow the company in 6 years from idea through rapid growth to $25M global goods media company with 50 employees and an AppleTV+ series.Spearhead and facilitate annual strategic planning with the executive team including budget, goal setting, and key initiative sequencing.Oversee HR, ensuring continual compliance in HR practices, facilitating streamlined onboarding and offboarding of employees and contractors, and facilitating multi-state compliance for remote work in 9 states during COVIDManage all legal partners, including IP, corporate, entertainment, and litigation specialties with 25-50 annual contracts and production facilities around the world.Cadenced review and refinement of company processes to reduce departmental and cross-functional pain points and streamline efficiency.Key contributor to CEO and Co-Founders preparing meeting content and deliverables to optimize their time and effort toward the highest business priorities. Coordinate quarterly board meetings including scheduling, content preparation, and post-meeting follow ups.

Lead product strategy and product development including a team of 2 designers to align with annual business revenue projections, margin targets, and quality expectations over six development windows each year to secure 65% of total annual revenue.Direct publishing editorial schedule and project manage all new book development leading to over 50 titles published and over 1 million books sold.Leverage extensive product knowledge to create seasonal merchandising plans across 3 sales channels, including pricing structure and bundle discounting efforts to ensure a premium customer experience.

Vancouver, Washington

Managed local production for all Slumberkins products and then facilitated the transition to overseas production as the company grew, achieving a 10% improvement in gross margin on core products.Ensured timely filing of all business taxes and registrations as well as managing the financial reporting and bookkeeping.Established internal inventory management, shipping, and fulfillment process and then managed outsourcing all inventory and fulfillment services to a contracted partner to reduce storage and fulfillment expenses by 20% Built backend technology infrastructure to support efficient management and data availability for business operations, improving inventory tracking accuracy to 99% and expanding reporting capabilities to support an omni-channel business.Managed a team of 5 operations staff in the execution of inventory control, receiving, and fulfillment.

Faubion School

Assist parents and guardians in enrolling students in school and coordinate placement of new students into classrooms to ensure even class sizes among grade levels.Manage all new student records transfers from previous schools with keen attention to detail for accuracy.Coordinate placement of substitute teachers throughout the building and support them as necessary in class preparation.Support school principal and administrative staff in daily tasks and responsibilities.Implemented an attendance management process to improve attendance record accuracy across the school by 10% and reduce student absences by 10% over 3 years.