Jake Busch, Mba Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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North America

Toronto, ON

• Relocated to Toronto to lead Target Canada’s transition initiative to identify and address process gaps, develop and implement training, and ensure overall transition execution
• Designed and implemented change management plan to drive adoption on transition process changes
• Project manager and consultant for 6 top priority transitions to ensure flawless execution at HQ and in stores by providing strategic thought, training, and tracking for the entire cross functional team
• Led 40 Transition Captains through transition management consulting to 500 Merchandising and Merchandise Planning team members
• Rebuilt and improved transition process, tools, and training documentation to reduce errors and improve team strategic thought to increase sales and guest experience

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Liaison between our merchandising end users of JDA Space and Floor and technology teams to provide troubleshooting support and training documentation.
• Document and prioritize future technology/reporting needs while partnering with technology teams to secure necessary funding and approvals.
• Business process consultant for system enhancements to JDA Space & Floor
• Leading 4 Business Analyst’s through 2 transformational business projects to provide business specific recommendation on Canada/US business connectivity with the goal of reducing HQ workload.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Develop and coach 5 employees in planogram (POG) and floor plan presentation, managing over 29,000 POGs and 3,800 floor plans for Entertainment, Electronics, Toys, Sporting Goods, Luggage, and Home Improvement &.
• Strategize to create profitable floor plan layouts for 6 divisions in all Canadian stores
• Consult with cross functional teams to successfully implement Target’s first international expansion into Canada, aiding in 124 new stores openings in 2013
• Led team of 3 analysts through fixture validation project to eliminate 185 unnecessary fixtures for new Canadian stores saving $21,000 per store
• Head best practice documentation with 5 Business Analysts to facilitate over 22 biweekly training sessions to date for new JDA Space and Floor Planning system

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Guided Healthcare division through Spring 2013 innovation to drive a 2% sales lift
• Directed 11 Category Captains and 6 Target Buyers through presentation best practices and guidelines for the creation of over 1000 Healthcare POGs
• Designed shelf level assortment recommendations to drive company segmentation strategies
• Managed employee in floor plan strategy execution and POG intercept process

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Oversaw roll out of new POG building process to Minneapolis and India POG teams
• Identified 68,000 hours of workload Minneapolis team could send to India through quantitative analysis
• Formulated and sold marketing plan to managers to increase workload sent to India by 33,000 hours.
• Mentored and coached 18 new Target India team members on Target, MPD, and Prospace system
• Invented, designed and instructed two workload reduction tools to all POG Analysts as new best practices with a yearly workload savings of over 1,500 hours

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Produced profitable presentations for 1000 Electronics POGs
• Executed the expansion of Target Mobile and the iPhone release into 700 stores in the Fall of 2011

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Produced profitable presentations for 800 Sporting Goods
• Analyzed productivity to develop expansion plan of license apparel to increase sales by $8,000,000
• Identified and drove opportunity to create a new strategy for over-indexing luggage stores near airports

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Ba, Economics

High School