Affiliate Marketing Lead who manages organizational traditional affiliate partnerships and budget. I manage the program NET budgets of over $5 million ($15 million program wide) as well as vendor and brand funded campaigns totaling over $12 million in collected marketing development funds. I also manage the personal partnerships with 10 main direct affiliate partners that bring in at least $1 billion in Best Buy revenue annually. My daily responsibilities include interfacing with internal Best Buy category marketing managers and creating affiliate marketing plans for multichannel vendor and brand campaigns. I also manage relationships with a variety of external vendor partners including RetailMeNot, Rakuten, and Ibotta as well as content providers such as CNET, Red Ventures, and Ziff Davis. Through our team’s influencer specific manager, I also have regular contact with organizations such as MagicLinks and LTK; formerly LikeToKnow.It.

Promo Ops Marketing Lead in charge of Appliances and Gaming and previously Home Theater, Entertainment categories, Computing, and Geek Squad. I manage, validate, and analyze the promotional content entries that build our Newspaper Weekly Ad, Digital Weekly Ad, Global Homepage, and Weekly Brand Email. I manage relationships between Best Buy’s category marketing team, merchant and merchant analyst teams, our internal creative services teams, and our main on site advertising agency, Wunderman. I oversaw sections of the larger conversion of our ad intake program into JustEnough’s MMT Program. This was a massive cross team undertaking more than 2 years in the making. The new program currently holds over 600 weekly promotions that are represented in our newspaper weekly ad, digital weekly ad, global home page, and weekly brand email. I was involved in process creation, training, and one-on-one category work to make sure that the transition ran smoothly and did not put our weekly rhythm at risk. Two year of lead for the Media Ops Black Friday Ad team which will handle one of the most important ads of the year. I own communication with the business team and creative teams during important milestones including creative print and digital reviews. Since every promotion runs through our team we will handle the entry and quality assurance of over 1,000 unique entries during this time period.On a week-to-week basis I am in charge of the overall accuracy of the promotional content entered into our multiple internal tools. This content directly reflects the output for our public marketing and advertising vehicles and often determine the MDF our marketing team collects. I work closely with our internal and external creative services teams to understand their needs when it comes to how content is provided and how this reflects visual output.

Events Project Manager in charge of Entertainment on the E-commerce Experience Team. Departments include: Movies, Music, Mobile Electronics, Musical Instruments, and Video Games. In the past year I have also managed the Digital Imaging and Tablets and eReaders categories. My responsibilities include managing the creation and workflow of over 1,300 online sale assets contributing to an online sales growth of 24% during 2013 and 2014, Weekly Best Buy Exclusive Offers, and Quality Assurance Testing. I am also positioned as a coach to the project coordinators who support my departments.During 2014 I worked internally managing an ongoing conversion of our Best Buy website. I helped facilitate the change on many of my pages to an even better customer centric experience. During this time I worked with multiple internal teams including our SEO, A/B Testing, and Business teams to build a pages that can easily reach our customers and enhance their shopping experience.During this time I have successfully trained six new employees. I also created a 44 page training guide that is used with all new E-commerce events project managers.

Managed the launch of over 25 check products including the design and approval processes from licensing companies such as Disney and the PGA. This entailed working with our in-house design team and our national printing partners. I helped regulate printing standards and quality on all recently released check products.I also assisted in the creation and moderation of a nation-wide consumer preference survey, by designing and monitoring an internationally distributed in-package advertisement. This survey was printed and delivered to more than 100,000 customers over a six month period.

- Performing informational updates for http://northernspark.org- Collecting, editing, and posting images for all Northern Spark events- Completing regular service updates and general administration needs

- Delivers and encourages Booksellers to deliver our customer service commitment- Assists store management in training of booksellers- Contributes to achievement of financial goals established for the cash wrap- Reinforces performance standards established to control shrink and potential loss to the Company

- Contacting art buyers and creative directors to set up portfolio showings- Building and organizing current and new business leads- Designing and managing contact lists for archival and future reference- Maintaining client relationships during photoshoots

Product manager for React Gaming accessories for Best Buy and Psyclone Gaming Accessories. Assisted in the release of over 60 different gaming accessories across the current generation including Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. Accessory manager for the Nintendo licensed game Pop Star Guitar. I helped design, source, and license the Air Guitar accessory that was included in game; including personally visiting our internationally based partners to confirm the accessory’s quality.