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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

-Took an immensely complex and disparate Data & Analytics discipline spanning 13 functions across 23 distinct organizations and established relationships with over 200 stakeholders and 30 key leaders to align and define 2023 strategy. I then took that group from ideation through execution which resulted in $96M in first-year benefit across 5 distinct and novel workstreams.-Leveraged an exceptional ability to build relationships across many different spans and layers of leaders throughout teams that often have conflicting goals or agendas and got them to work together as we defined the strategy for the workstream and ultimately executed against a 2023 agenda that was the most successful of its kind and continues to provide value.-Combined my unique talent in strategic development with an ability to execute at the highest level to take the Data & Analytics workstream further than any other in the organization to establish value for the company while making the lives of providers and team members better.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

-Recognized a gap in organizational skill set then built, trained (Demo2Win Approach) and led a team of internal Solutions Consultants that represented 7 enterprise automation platforms and over 40 products and partnered with key business segments across UHG. In 2022, the team drove over $40M in annual pipeline generation, incubation, acceleration and delivery.-Identified key capability gaps and their corresponding automation solutions in the market, built comprehensive business cases to gain approval and then successfully onboarded 3 vendors that are now key strategic relationships that represented $50M of value in 2022.-Reduced internal sales cycle from 1 year to 1 month by leaning on my spectrum of experiences in business ownership, finance, technology and consulting to thoroughly understand the client, identify what they need to know to get them from interested to converted.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

- Combine knowledge of Natural Language Processing, Optical Character Recognition, Graph Databases, & RPA with extensive experience in P&L ownership to identify business need and develop strategic roadmaps to solve problems and realize benefit for internal partners.- Leverage relationship development skills to build trust and collaborate with internal customers of Advanced Capabilities to ensure the deployment of use cases totaling over $30M per year in SG&A benefits as well as revenue and medical expense savings.- Identified a gap and sourced three separate vendors within the automated process discovery and digital adoption platform space to implement tools that will deliver over $30M in annual time savings and revenue generation across the Global Operations Team.

Optum

- Led a portfolio of 3 enterprise capabilities across Image Processing, Voice Analytics and Graph Databases that included 8 scrum teams and a centralized capability management team to ensure capabilities were built and delivered on time and within budget.- Successfully built a portfolio governance model and structure for the automation enterprise capabilities group that established a center of excellence and agile and dev ops delivery model to ensure execution across 3 key capabilities that drove $15M in annual SG&A savings.- Identified a key need to establish a Portfolio Management Community of Practice to align and connect over 70 portfolio managers to operate under industry standards and built a curriculum to both share insights and teach new members to execute at the highest level.

Eden Prairie, Mn

- Collaborated with business partners to build the strategic roadmap for enhancement and new product development work across 7 different lines of business and then managed two delivery teams to build and execute against the roadmap to deliver $34M worth of capital initiatives.- Built and ran the capital planning process business partners which included the building of business cases, the prioritization activities to establish a strategic roadmap and backlog and then the ongoing governance to ensure proper execution within the allotted capital budget.- Successfully built business cases to win the business an increase in capital from $8M to $34M YoY while also directly building and managing a team of 7 resources and indirectly managing multiple scrum teams to ensure successful delivery against the awarded capital.

-Managed two programs each with several projects running concurrently that carried a budget of over $30M and drove sales in categories worth over $10B per year at Target.-Assessed and helped to assign project leads for individual project based on project scope and the skill level necessary to define and execute successful projects.-Proactively identified cross-project and cross-program dependencies on a daily basis to ensure risk was mitigated, issues were resolved and requirements met.-Achieved operational objectives by creating and maintaining comprehensive program dashboards and drove accountability within each program that was necessary to build team acceptance and results.-Promoted continuous process improvement through ongoing trainings and check-ins to ensure project leads had the tools they need to be successful in executing their objectives and developing professionally.

Minneapolis

-Successfully planned and executed the first comprehensive promotional plan for the Back-to-School season within Kids Apparel which resulted in the largest ever BTS season with sales of over $13MM.-Identified key assortment opportunities through white-space analysis that resulted in a sales increase of nearly 50% within the Baby category while also reducing item count and inventory liability by nearly 40%.-Created promotional strategy for the 2014 Holiday Season within the Kids and Baby Apparel categories that resulted in sales comps of over 100% and Q4 sales of over $90MM.-Created and managed an assortment health dashboard that serves as the basis for analyzing the health of any individual business across all of Target.com and is used as a barometer of success by senior leadership.

Minneapolis

-Effectively managed and strategically drove over 100 team members across 10 different cross-functional teams with an annual budget of $26M to rollout an Omnichannel experience that drives $4B in annual sales.-Successfully executed a large-scale construction remodel rollout to over two hundred Target stores across the country which represented the largest initiative to be implemented at Target in 2014.-Managed and prioritized key deliverables, created project plan, established resource allocation need, reported progress to leadership, managed communication to users, and provided ongoing support to cross-functional teams to ensure high levels of visibility to the group.-Initiated, planned, executed, monitored and closed a strategic partnership with Citrus Lane that is forecasted to be worth $3M annually to Target Corporation.-Responsible for creating, managing and executing eight different workstreams simultaneously to successfully deliver on twenty-six milestones that resulted in a successful launch to the customer.-Identified opportunities to work with key partners and avoided standard processes which reduced both time and cost by nearly 50% without compromising quality.-Created a roadmap for success that can be used by business users to successfully execute future releases of the Citrus Lane product while also developing a strong partnership with a strategic vendor that will play a significant role in the future success of the Baby category.

Minneapolis, Mn

-Led a strategic expansion of the assortment and a multi-faceted marketing plan to increase exposure across the website which drove additional guest interaction and growth for the category. These initiatives, combined with a focused promotional strategy enabled this category to achieve YoY growth of 117% for spring 2013.-Built a comprehensive seasonal shoe markdown strategy for 2012 that reduced unproductive inventory by 50% while increasing profitable clearance sales margin by over 20% all while creating a best-in-class process for the future.-Initiated and maintained strong relationships with over 100 vendor partners to develop a seamless multichannel assortment strategy to drive sales growth of over 100% in a business that is worth $15MM per year.-Effectively managed, developed and advocated for a team of individuals to ensure both professional and personal growth while also maintaining high levels of engagement and career satisfaction.

Minneapolis, Mn

--Managed all buying responsibilities for the Men’s category which included assortment planning, managing vendor relationships, optimizing inventory, creating promotional plans and driving overall strategy which resulted in sales exceeding plan tasks by 26% and a YoY comp of 40%.-Managed all buying responsibilities for the Accessories category which included seasonal planning, assortment strategy, site presentation, multichannel integration and CFT utilization which resulted in an improved guest experience and Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 sales comps of 2000% and 400% respectively.-Collaborated with Target’s largest basics vendor in Hanes to create both process and partnership improvements which led to the development of a sustainable strategy that resulted in sales comps of 185% for the year.-Successfully onboarded eight new team members and formally mentored three analysts in the expansion of the business unit and provided the leadership necessary to execute a flawless transition that resulted in a 135% sales comp in 2012.-Partnered with store experts to initiate participation in a toys storage program which was the first of its kind and managed the implementation of the process that resulted in an incremental $200k in vendor income and put in place a best method that will be annualized for years to come.-Negotiated an updated toys ordering strategy with strategic vendor partners which saved over $1.1M in early holiday receipt orders which increased inventory turnover, decrease liability and put in place a best method to be used annually.-Received VP award for reducing inventory receiving issues by 85% by creating a comprehensive strategy and engaging in proactive communication with all cross-functional partners to mitigate risk.

Minneapolis, Mn

-Received VP Infrastructure award for creating and implementing an item launch strategy that effectively launched nearly $300k in blocked inventory while also driving a process that has led to a 90% launch success rate for a category that has traditionally achieved only 40%.-Took on additional responsibilities of a planning analyst while also managing the implementation of thousands of items within the cosmetics category to go above and beyond the responsibilities of the specialist role.