Ella Samson Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Ma, Us

• Founded a consulting business to address systemic enterprise workforce inequities and improve belonging for the gender diverse workforce.• Developed and operationalized a forward thinking, modernized, and pragmatic cross-enterprise playbook with over 250 actionable recommendations.• Led design and development of business case, strategy, branding, marketing, and go-to market approach.• Served $500M market cap biopharmaceutical company in resolving structural inequities in policy and culture.

Results-driven fractional leadership services with expertise in enhancing operational efficiency, driving execution and strategic initiatives, building teams, and fostering growth for startups and mid-sized companies. Experienced in diverse industries including food and beverage manufacturing, quick service retail, biotechnology, medical technology, management consulting, and software as a service (SaaS).

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Provide board level leadership at organization dedicated to cultivating inclusive relationships between LGBT-owned business and corporate sector to foster economic impact.

Worldwide, Oo

• Partnered with 20+ functions and certified 300+ technologies and 200+ incremental releases for software hosted in Deloitte environment, storing and processing Deloitte and client data. • Introduced more robust review program, improving consistency and clarity to improve internal customer experience; reduced risk, decreased review time by 15%, increased volume from 70 to 172, and doubled throughput per resource on team from 3 to 6. • Modernized manual certification process within disparate systems into workflow tool for US firm and rolled out globally; overcame functional limitations and built consensus across 20 work thread stakeholders to create tool that improved issue resolution and reduced overall review times. • Integrated Risk and Financial Advisory certification of assets into Consultings’ CtS program, creating efficiency.• Co-sponsored with ITS national project across all Deloitte including Audit, Risk and Financial Advisory, Tax, and Consulting to revamp 3rd party technology review process, reducing review time and volume by 50%.

Worldwide, Oo

• Spearheaded CtS transition from Excel, email, and PowerPoint to automated reporting and processes through ServiceNow to drive scale and transparency; attained full adoption of stakeholders across 16 work threads. • Developed Tech Fee review process as new monetization path while reducing review requirements by 20% and improving efficiency by 20%. • Led team to champion and support institutionalizing assets and certifications; developed and updated content to support education and adoption and positioned team as subject matter experts on certification of assets. • Built foundation for employee growth, optimizing, and improving team performance by coaching under-performing employees and realigning staff to other functions; promoted up to 3 employees annually. • Instituted strategy for employees to own process improvement projects, while empowering staff; culminated in execution of 10 to 20 employee-owned projects simultaneously.

Worldwide, Oo

• Created and managed operational reporting function, enhancing visibility of accurate data used to provide idea evolution and associated issues, risks, and results. • Redesigned intake function to streamline processes and business case evaluation; resulted in 10 successful in-market assets.• Developed 10 marketing platforms and associated website comprised of 40 market-ready software assets.

Worldwide, Oo

• Identified and resolved issues for Stock Transfer Orders between distribution facilities for distributor’s warehousing system; addressed bottlenecks in inventory transfer process.• Led efforts to integrate commercial support organizations of parent company into newly acquired organization for leading global life sciences firm. • Directed development of 5 analytics Capability Maturity Assessments including Customer, Supply Chain, Workforce, Finance and Risk internally at Deloitte.

• Successfully delivered 4 projects across 3 different groups within Abbott Diabetes Care; developed alternate demand model based on number of insulin patients; evolved model to house additional segments. • Served as additional resource for new product development on Commercial Innovation Global Strategic Marketing Team at Abbott Diabetes Care, developing business case, and refining business model. • Mobilized and drove multifunctional teams across Forecasting, Marketing, Trade Sales, Logistics, Walmart Category Manager, and Sales to build Account Demand Tracker and Wholesaler Days On Hand tools for Abbott Diabetes Care. • Served as fractional VP of Finance; assisted in turning around small beverage manufacturer and distributor by instilling transparency and implementing HR and IT processes; raised additional $3M in capital for business.

Emeryville, Ca, Us

• Played active role in company expansion through retail store margin improvement and implementation of cost reduction initiatives.

• Co-founded supply chain software company, servicing consumer goods manufacturers and retailers.

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Ba, International Relations