Diane Barty Email & Phone Number

Deerfield, Illinois, United States

Alpharetta, Georgia

• Supported the company’s Chief Operating Officer and his team
• Partnered with the COO to assist in day-to-day management of Executive Team, e.g., assisting with performance reviews, managing paid time off, coordinating projects, deliverables and deadlines, working through time.
• Proactively previewed COO’s email and calendar to confirm executive preparedness, meticulously ensuring daily activities aligned with company and executive goals and objectives.
• Collaborated with COO to design a Global Performance System – AGRO Operating Performance System (AOPS) – to clearly define methods for delivering value as well as providing structure to company operations.
• Coordinated launch and integration of AOPS on a global level, increasing productivity, while reducing expenses and increasing safety.
• Assisted in the establishment of commercial and performance management structures supporting strategic initiatives.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Supported the company’s Chief Executive Officer and his team
• Reduced company travel costs approximately 10% over an eight-week period through diligent and proactive management of complex, often last minute, travel, leveraging various online sources for competitive costs. Aligned.
• Increased sales by 13% over six weeks by instituting a system for organized communication of route schedules, project deadlines and company processes/ policies to both corporate office and field personnel. Reduced.
• Decreased production time by approximately 20% through the establishment of efficient methods for the storage and naming of shared company documents related to forms, plan-o-grams and other sales tools.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Provided leadership support to Marketing Vice President and team
• Provided exceptional organization of the Executive’s schedule and travel – always ensuring both were reflective and supportive of the goals of the Leadership Team – increasing overall efficiency by 30%.
• Reduced expenses by 25% over prior year through coordination of local and global marketing team events and activities at the best, most economical, locations.
• Successfully conducted a departmental move of office space of approximately 50 marketers, managing onsite vendors, assigning workstations, and identifying team members’ technological needs, reducing overall project.
• Expertly coordinated complex conference rooms scheduling, assuring flawless synchronization of video conferencing with remote locations worldwide, saving thousands of travel dollars by reducing international and.
• Accurately and expeditiously processed invoices and purchase orders; acted as a liaison with Sourcing and Finance Teams, ensuring invoices were paid accurately and on time, reliably avoiding “overdue” costs issued by.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Supported the Chief Commercial Officer and his team of Sales and Marketing executives and professionals
• Meticulously and confidentially managed calendars, travel and departmental budgets for the CCO, giving the executive back up to ten hours weekly.
• Flawlessly executed planning for sales team and customer-facing events of varying sizes and visibility, proactively anticipating every aspect of the experience and placing measures for certain success, freeing the.
• Partnered with the Sales Teams to assist with strategic customer meeting planning by providing thorough and meticulous research related to the customers’ company financials, trends and key stakeholders.
• Consistently provided the highest level of project, organizational and administrative support, which increased overall team efficiency and allowed Sales and Marketing staff to focus on achievement of company and.

Libertyville, IL

• Supported the Vice President, Walgreens Team
• Increased customer retention by 85% by identifying the need for providing consistent, timely, post promotion analysis based on customer and management feedback.
• Achieved a 50% reduction in office administration production times through institution of administrative and procedural processes.
• Initiated revenue/spend reporting to proactively anticipate the clients’ needs for a comprehensive picture of planning, sales and invoicing. By employing data compiled from various proprietary systems, client.

Deerfield, IL

• Supported the Brand Team Vice Presidents and Directors through direct reporting to Commercial Finance Director.
• Created visibility to $110 million in Brand Investment dollars by developing and administering a detailed and organized reporting of spend activity.
• Identified an additional $3 million of unallocated promotion budget dollars through implementation of dashboarding process for promotion and advertising spend.
• Provided exceptional organization and expedient delivery of accurate financial data to Executive Management increasing their ability to make timely, well-informed budgetary decisions with a high level of confidence.
• Establishment of consistent budget reporting across Brand and Commercial Finance Teams enabled an 85% increase in marketing team annual budget compliance and resulted in Brand Management Team contract renewals.
• Overall staff organization through coordinating project management, documenting weekly team meetings, and providing detailed project tracking resulted in increased employee job satisfaction.

Lake Forest, IL

• Grainger is a leading provider of industrial supplies, MRO equipment, tools and materials. I supported the Corporate Secretary/VP Legal and her team.
• Concentrated the planning and preparation of company Board of Director meetings, through skillful collaboration with other Executives and their staff, from the existing timeframe of 4 weeks, down to 2 weeks, while.
• Implemented an efficient method for the meticulous maintenance of official corporate documents, BOD minutes, bylaws, shareholder minutes and other critical strategic records, creating a significant reduction in the.
• Execution of Executive Management’s priorities through tracking all team member projects and tasks, and providing scheduled updates and feedback to Vice President and her staff. This tracking project resulted in a 90%.

Bannockburn, IL And Then Kenosha, WI

• Teleflex is a global provider of medical technologies to individuals, hospitals and healthcare providers. Promoted into a new role in a new location, I assumed responsibility of executive and team support for the VP.
• Overhauled tradeshow appearance process to improve effectiveness and save costs. Diligent tracking of adherence to plan showed savings of more than $25,000 in the first year.
• Excellent event/meeting planning and execution, including budget management, vendor/supplier negotiations, meeting resource identification, and attendee registrations for National and International conferences and.
• Diligently leveraged broad network, developed through consistent relationship management across global locations, to accomplish budgetary, staffing and location goals for company meetings and events.
• Developed new format for Monthly Business Reviews resulting in a streamlined delivery of departmental data, and the ability to facilitate concise, effective meetings around the data.
• Fortified financial positioning through diligent management of tradeshow program details and comprehensive reporting of market value of show participation.

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Additional prior experience includes administrative assignments for Washington Mutual (2002 to 2004) and Baxter International, (2000 to 2001), based in Vernon Hills, IL and Deerfield, IL respectively.