Christen Olson Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Minnesota, United States

Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Throughout my career, I received consistent feedback from coworkers, managers, and mentors that my strengths lie in the ability to quickly build a rapport with key individuals within the organization and joining Oggi allowed me to embrace my outgoing personality in a role focused on partnership. Because I walked the walk, it was easy for me to relate to.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Partner with Warewash Marketing organization to execute and plan strategic initiatives for $970M product portfolio.
• Develop financial model for product innovation, analyze post launch key metrics, and partner in recommendation to senior leadership.
• Prioritization of work flow for one direct report and mentoring across finance organization.

• Cross-functional strategic business support partner for Sysco Sales and Marketing organizations, Ecolab’s largest distributor partnership ($125M in street brand sales, $600M in total).
• Provide executive decision support through analysis of key business trends and reporting tools to deliver sales growth targets.
• Develop new reporting tools to efficiently and effectively communicate business results and identify opportunities for field sales growth.
• Improve team engagement through individual and team coaching.

• Conduct financial and operational reviews to ensure adequate controls are in place, compliance with policies and identify process improvement opportunities.
• Manage, coach and develop six staff auditors.
• Perform high risk, high exposure special projects.
• Effectively staff, scope and manage new audit approach as requested by senior leadership.

• Provide sales organization support to Global Sales Vice President.
• Define and execute sales model evolution strategy through hiring, compensation, territory alignments and expense management.
• Assist in launch cadence for account selection process by providing analytics to appropriate sales management.
• Establish compensation design and administration process for sales organization.

• Manage quarterly forecasts and annual plan for selling organization affiliated with Cardiology, Rhythm and Vascular Group.
• Analyze monthly expenses to ensure compliance with plan by performing monthly variance analysis and ad-hoc reporting.
• Lead significant cost saving initiatives on cell phone and vehicle expenses.
• Co-lead project to develop reporting tool that measures profitability at sales region level.

• Create and manage working capital report to measure monthly plant performance and improve operating results.
• Support fixed asset SAP implementation for assigned business unit.
• Direct the collection and utilization of operating and strategic data and report to operating management.
• Understand and utilize appropriate analytical methodologies, tools and systems.

• Analyze and interpret business and customer information to increase profits.
• Identify underperforming markets and create margin improvement goals and strategies.
• Engage with members of sales management and margin analysts to resolve compliance issues, influence pricing decisions and improve margins.
• Create and review profit statements with field and corporate leaders at account and market level.

• Calculate, analyze and explain factory cost variances using unit cost statements, pricing analyzes, etc. and communicate these to appropriate controllers and operating management.
• Calculate and analyze unit cost statements to value inventories and establish international contract and transfer prices.
• Lead multiple initiatives to improve product processes, plant production reporting and unit cost measurements.
• Collect, evaluate and present actual and forecast data to plant personnel. Work closely with plant financial analyst and product managers.
• Green belt Six Sigma certified.