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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 new product launches, incremental reviews, and price adjustments to ensure profitable, long term financial growth.- Gaining alignment for strategic growth initiatives by presenting business cases and strategic plans to executive leadership.- Driving growth and strategy of innovation pipeline through user research, workshops and cross functional collaboration with R&D, sourcing, and manufacturing teams.

- 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 profitability for key product lines.- Cultivated trust and strong relationships with cross functional colleagues to efficiently execute product development and launch strategies.- Managed expectations and priorities through supply chain challenges.- Partnered with Demand Gen teams to produce digital media content and execute digital marketing campaigns.

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 collateral to achieve consistency across channels• 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, market share and brand equity• 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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