Ashley Chu Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the team that drives business strategy and operational excellence to enable the Commercial and Marketing & Communications orgs to unlock their full potential, in a way that is aligned to Verily’s larger vision and profitability.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the team that drives business strategy and operational excellence to enable the Marketing & Communications org to unlock its full potential, in a way that is aligned to Verily’s larger vision and profitability.-Lead strategic planning and budget management for Marketing & Communications, inclusive of the annual strategic planning process, ongoing budget ownership and vendor management, resource planning and management, and team OKRs and goal-setting-Define, manage and optimize how Marketing & Communications works together, inclusive of systems and processes (agile methodology), promotional compliance, and team communication channels and culture-Lead executive-sponsored initiatives with significant strategic value

San Francisco Bay Area

-Responsible for leading and driving the annual strategic planning & budgeting progress for the Marketing & Communications org, connecting the dots between org leaders and key cross-functional stakeholders-Own the process of defining, communicating, reviewing, and scoring org-wide OKRs to ensure clear focus, impact, and alignment across all levels of the organization-Identify strategic opportunities for improved process and standardization, build simple and scalable solutions to address gaps, drive teams to implement changes, and track efficacy

San Francisco Bay Area

-Identified and led initiatives to address operational gaps in process centralization, standardization, and prioritization

San Francisco Bay Area

-Responsible for leading crossfunctional program management for Verily's Healthy at Work, a product launched during the pandemic to support organizations in their efforts to ensure a safe return to work or school-Led the complex end-to-end planning & implementation of unsupervised bulk-ship COVID-19 testing for the first national account across over 2,000 sites

San Francisco, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Built and scaled the US corporate office to 11 cross-functional departments and 50+ employees, to support business operations for a global restaurant chain with 16 US sites and 2,500+ US employees.Noteworthy achievements include:-Successfully managed 4 project teams over 3 years to bring outsourced corporate services in-house to reduce costs (payroll, HR, recruiting, and accounting)-Drove a 2-year project to fully integrate the ATS, HRIS, POS, and payroll systems to reduce labor costs-Negotiated and implemented large employer health benefits plans and a new 401(k) startup plan-Led the company’s US COVID-19 reopening protocols and operations response, as an essential industry during the pandemic

-Managed data collection and analysis for over 20 phase-3 clinical trials for major pharmaceutical companies