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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Building your 'third place' away from home. Creating bespoke, high-end experiences for customers looking to spend time with friends & family with quality food, drinks, and experiences.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Building better-tasting, better-for-you CPG brand. Using real organic ingredients. Delicious nostalgia, quality ingredients.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Boutique retail negotiations firm creating value for retailers and their shoppers by building creative partnerships and maximizing financial outcomes. Led client engagements for leading US Retailers. Set vision, goals, and activation plan across engagement, responsible for on-time delivery, excellent communication, and client-specific engagement goals for grocery and big box retailers across the country.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

As a GLG Network Member, I bring over a decade of experience in the logistics, digital, and innovation industries to help clients solve some of their toughest business challenges around strategic decision making.GLG is the world’s insight network. It connects decision makers to the right experts so they can act with the confidence that comes from true clarity and have what it takes to get ahead. Its network of experts is the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Lead development of Pharmaca and Medly omnichannel Retail Strategy process; responsible for crafting strategic roadmap, building prioritization criteria, communicating to executive leadership, and implementing strategic priorities with core teams• Built third party marketplace strategy and launched Same Day fulfillment via Shipt • Hired and led the first retail strategy and analytics team focused on driving evidence-based decisions for the retail enterprise. Initiatives include SKU rationalization, pricing optimization, segmentation, and promotion strategy• Lead cross-functional Services work with Pharmacy Operations teams to pilot and scale new-to-Medly Health Services pyramid• Responsible for New Verticals concept development, market sizing, and learning plans and sharing directly with CEO

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Using a human-centered design thinking ethos, was responsible for identifying emerging business opportunities and internal inefficiencies. Led project teams that identified opportunities, diagnosed root causes, generated potential solutions (concepts), ran market sizing, and build and executed experiments to evaluate business-critical hypotheses• Responsible for communicating to executive leadership team. As team lead, my job was to add structure & clarity while reducing roadblocks for my team• Led large cross functional team across five pyramids exploring ways to increase profit recovery on salvaged goods. Built the first-ever Target sales platform outside Target-branded properties to test a digital discount channel

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead the development of strategy, business cases, project management, and implementation for Target's Global Supply Chain & Logistics (GSCL) Transportation Innovation team. Specifically focused on emerging automation technologies, store automation, and same day delivery. Responsible for building Same Day Delivery SOPs at pilot stores in NYC• Appointed by senior-leadership to act as an advanced subject matter expert. Hosted internal ‘REDTalks’ specifically about emerging transportation technologies like autonomous freight logistics Evaluate the costs and benefits of various project proposals and serve as project leader with multiple cross-functional teams responsible for determining goals, operational excellence, and financial budgets. Act as an advanced subject matter expert specifically related to emerging transportation technologies.

• Single point of contact to manage Target’s digital domestic marketplaces. Responsible for digital site experience management, assortment strategy, marketing, promotion planning, business strategy, and market expansion. Managed small product team to develop, build, and deploy experience enhancements. Grew annual revenue from $9M to >$100M in two years across eBay, Google Express, and Instacart• Led Target and Instacart launch cross functional team across eight pyramids and over 30 team members. Built new-to-Target item data to sell perishable grocery digitally for the first time in Target’s history• Awarded eBay’s ‘Seller of the Year’ award in 2015

• Responsible for daily inventory optimization, business strategy development, and process improvement for Target.com's biggest toy vendors including Hasbro, Mattel, and LEGO, driving over $200M in annual digital sales• Supply chain captain, lead chase / cancel process for Holiday inventory planning, negotiations with store merchant teams to optimize inventory between T.com and stores, and acted as single point of contact to 4 Target.com Fulfillment Centers for all Hardlines Business Analysts (Electronics, Toys, Sporting Goods, Music, Movies, Books; approximately 20 analysts)Developed an innovative new ordering process in partnership with LEGO to improve fill rates, instocks, and sales during volatile selling periods, new item launches, and key Q4 promotional periods to drive industry-leading digital market share.Significant supply chain initiatives included:Introduced an early-read process of pre-selling toys online to gauge in-season sales behavior. Provided an additional six weeks of sales for early-set items, eventually reducing $300,000 of unnecessary inventory on 100 key holiday items.Proactively transferred $2 million in inventory to effectively balance inventory and reduce overstock- markdown risk, one of the largest transfers of inventory in the company’s history at the time.

Greater New York City Area

Monitored audio and visual internet media content for trademark, patent and copyright violations; drafted legal documents; responsible for research related to ongoing litigation; drafted and submitted trademark applications.