As an Executive Strategy Partner, I deliver actionable data and strategic insights that empower organizations to drive revenue growth, mitigate risks, and craft transformative initiatives for a superior customer experience. By establishing trusted relationships, I ensure we’re aligned on goals and approach, carefully listening, clarifying, and addressing challenges through a structured, data-driven methodology. Together, we create solutions that not only solve immediate problems but also position your business for sustained growth and competitive advantage.

- Establish a centralized market research practice that serves all business units across industry verticals- Provide leadership with for the go to market strategy, pricing, packaging, branding, and product development pipeline- Demonstrated ability to influence in a highly matrixed environment following 7 business acquisitions- Lead the design of an integrated voice of the customer program; supporting more than 20 SaaS products across a variety of industries

I drive commercial excellence with a global customer focus, leading the team to generate unique customer insights and translate those into customer engagement actions. I work with stakeholders around the globe to elevate data and analytics-based decisions at Climate and the broader Bayer enterprise. Ultimately helping the business use data to drive market positioning, product development, pricing, and product engagement strategies.

I provide overall leadership, coordination, and integration of customer research and analytics across climate - centralizing market research efforts and the application of insights to strategy.

As a member of the strategic marketing team, I work closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to leverage market research and analytics to inform the business. I oversee grower and dealer feedback initiatives, analyze findings, develop assessments, and make recommendations for implementing strategic efforts. In addition, I work to improve our ability to share and disseminate key learnings and insights across the organization; including the building of a market research library.

Lead and manage a team of analysts responsible for dashboard development. Concurrently, I remain focused on delivering strategic direction to key high-value accounts by presenting findings and recommendations at the C-level, supporting pre-sales activity, and serving as an internal and external advocate for the integration of analytics and a results-oriented approach.

Expanding my role as an analyst to capitalize on my strengths and support the growing needs of our group and the business in a variety of capacities, including; pre-sales support as an acting subject matter expert, presenting analytic services and insights to clients, contributing to internal resource management, organizational structure, and workflow processes.

I develop strategic insights for our clients based on analysis of internal Maritz, client, and third party data. More specifically, I construct models which predict participant behavior and forecast engagement activity and program revenue within the scope of (gamified) channel loyalty, sales incentive, employee recognition or consumer rewards programs. All of which allows me to conduct business reviews; presenting findings, program enhancements, and marketing recommendations to the client(s).

Provide comprehensive support to the retail banking group. Aid the sales and proposal teams by equipping them with industry specific competitive and market intelligence to grasp ongoing trends and identify new opportunities for growth. Develop operational best practices to improve productivity and unify collaboration among internal project teams. Contribute to the development of official points of view (POV’s) and whitepapers to provide structured guidance in new areas of importance and extrinsic influences on the industry. Positioned as a resource for driving a focus on innovative and unique collection methods utilizing digital and social media. Maintain an active project management role on an ad-hoc basis.

Spent my first year on mainly ad hoc project work. This allowed me to gain exposure to the entire process; from design and implementation to data collection, reporting, and interpretation/presentation of findings utilizing nearly every type of collection method (Mail, Phone, and Web) currently used in the industry. Additionally, I acquired a wide breadth of experience working with different teams and clients. Time management and prioritization were key skills that needed to be developed very quickly in order to juggle up to 6 projects at once. Later focus in this role was centered on field management of one of the largest studies of it’s kind in the industry. $10MM/year project, obtaining over 1.2 million completes in 2009. Includes, but not limited to; coordination between our IT, project, and multi-national field teams. A large portion of responsibility focused on managing goals for the field, and monitoring progress and quality; keeping research objectives in mind while working toward client needs.

Managed daily activities including; sales, personnel management, and accounting duties in addition to situation recovery and future strategic planning.

Responsible for up to 12 employees per shift. Participated in hiring, firing, and disciplinary decisions. Managed accounting controls and cash, in excess of $8,000 which resulted in effective function of daily cash activities. Involved in inventory control and management of vendor relations. Was able to reduce required space for daily inventory items to allow room for early reception of promotional/seasonal merchandise, which permitted on-time placement of goods.