Gina Meola Email & Phone Number

Supplier Relations• Maintain working relationship with vendors to ensure cost control and standardize administration, organization, documentation and contract management.• Develop and maintain a supplier database management system.• Maintain purchasing activities in the evaluation, selection, management and communications with suppliers.• Monitor potential suppliers and their performance to provide recommendations, pricing and agreement negotiations.Online Panel Specialist• Provide a central point of information, control and expertise to research, evaluate and recommend sample sources.• Subject matter expert for evaluation, selection and management of online respondent panel providers.• Resource for online sample quality practices and incorporate tools and processes to find and eliminate poor quality respondents.

• Managed US portion of an international automotive tracking study and Ad Agency (Ethnic) accounts.• Responsibilities included proposals, pricing, sample planning, report writing, ad hoc analysis, client contact and presenting.• Managed a team of 6 plus relationships with support staff for the tracker as a whole.• Led company-wide Internet Team to determine best practices in online research and panel management.• Sought and negotiated panel bids for international tracking study (up to 50 countries).

Gina's previous position entailed working on the Latin America and Middle East portion of a multi-country automotive brand health study.

•Chart creation/interpretation for U.S. and Canadian automotive clients and completion of ad hoc requests (including aiding clients in goal setting and ad spend analysis).•Coordination, management and analysis of reports including client contact.•Client presentations.•Creating internal training programs.•Redesigning syndicated production processes for maximum efficiency.•Managing Offshore team and one assistant.

•Initiated and carried out medical research (Responsibilities included recruiting, running studies, data entry, analysis, interviewing for new positions, management, results presentation).•Analyzed preliminary results of 2 studies.•Completed 2 pharmaceutical clinical trials.•Created a “cd processing” method and database to be used by the Central Scoring Site.

Ba, Economics/Business, Music

Activities and Societies: Kalamazoo Community Orchestra, Developing Leaders Program, Resident Assistant, Regional EDGE intern

Education record

I am currently working on an MBA @ Wayne State.