Brandon Miller Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Vernon Hills, IL

- Responsible for driving profitable growth to our core wood care brand, Varathane- Conduct yearly 360 business analysis and develop growth strategy for Interior Wood Care platform – short term and 3 years + - Leverage User Insight and Category Management teams to be the end user and market expert for interior wood care.- Responsible for P&L ownership from.

- Responsible for driving growth to portfolio of Specialty Wood Care brands – including RO Transformations, Watco, Zinsser Shellac and Parks.- Lead several strategic product launches – driving key brands growth and representing first to market innovations for the organization.- Developed strategies to enhance user and market attractiveness as well as.

Lake Bluff, IL

• Serve as brand and marketing owner for in-house brands and private label brands - responsible for online marketing content, promotions, packaging, published technical data, instruction manuals and other marketing/sales.
• Lead product commercialization projects with R&D, sourcing and sales analytics teams to identify and execute new product launches and line extensions within existing product offerings to drive company sales growth.
• Build business cases for new categories, market spaces with sales and profit projects - driving the brand’s breakthrough innovation strategy to support business growth
• Collaborate with key internal executives to represent brand and product strategy in line review presentations

Greater Chicago Area

• Identify customer needs and develop solutions to increase sales and grow existing relationships
• Extract client input to identify and understand key brand messaging points and successfully incorporate those insights into design concepts that exemplify their brand messaging
• Project management point person in a cross functional team responsible for coordination of multiple business functions
• Work directly with clients to develop winning solutions in a prompt and precise manner
• Conduct various marketing efforts to produce and develop sales leads

Greater Chicago Area

• Collaborate with a large retail client and internal business functions to design, develop, implement and manage complex retail signage programs
• Mediate customer needs with internal business functions by working closely with colleagues in design/development, manufacturing, shipping and accounting
• Operate effectively in challenging, time bound, customer facing settings
• Coordinate project details, budgets and timelines with clients, colleagues and outside vendors with a strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy of information and successful project completion
• Communicate effectively at all levels with clients and internal stakeholders using design visualization, PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets

Greater Chicago Area

• Manage all aspects of the design, development, manufacture and implementation of consumer brand marketing/retail merchandising programs ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery
• Develop project schedules and plan strategies with internal team members, clients and outside vendors holding each entity accountable for budgets, timelines and deliverables
• Work with large consumer product companies such as Black & Decker and large retailers such as Meijer to create large merchandising display roll outs
• Produce sophisticated design visualizations for internal and client presentation, using 3D modeling software and the Adobe creative suite
• Point person for Keystone's marketing efforts, including a company rebranding and establishing a new and successful internet marketing strategy

Oak Creek, WI

Supported a small team of color and surface designers working on consumer electronics products. formulated paint, sprayed samples and prepared presentation materials.

Greater Chicago Area

Developed concepts for a variety of consumer products from soft goods to hardware. Designed color-ways for existing products. Produced images for use on the website/catalog.

Bfa, Industrial Design

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