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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Pull & analyze weekly sales data and communicate insights & trends to clients• Lead forecasting, inventory flow, and reporting for clients’ Target business• Manage a varying portfolio of new emerging brands and existing in Food & Bev, Baby, & Essentials• Constantly analyzing brand performance and executing ways to improve the business• On behalf of brand partners, pull together quarterly business reviews• Developed a dynamic forecasting Excel grid that secured bi-weekly meetings with Target and help the client reach their goal forecast within 3% • Negotiated over $1M in build orders and front-loading for top brands

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Within 6 mos grew revenue to $41M an 19% increase in annual sales. • Presented biannual line reviews and weekly merchant team meetings to secure inline product placement and developed/negotiated 24+ unique out-of-aisle and cross-category retail statements. • Hired and led an item specialist and onboarded a new sales team on the Funko/Target business. • Led the development of a pre-sale business on Target.com; coordinated efforts across marketing, site merchandise and licensor teams to drive 94%+ growth and $9M+ in annual e-commerce sales. • Expanded everyday business with Target by launching 5+ new product lines as first-to-market opportunities, and brought 100+ exclusive items to Target.

Minneapolis

• Responsible for routing, tracking, and managing POs in Funko's ERP• Collaborated with Target inventory analysts to generate, edit, and cancel POs• Forecasted and recommend quantities for Funko’s SKUs by program• Owned Funko’s item setup within Target's item systems• Managed and tracked Funko's domestic inventory and direct shipping for Target• Responsible for weekly sales reporting and maintaining sales order files for internal communications• Owned sample coordination and asset delivery to Target & category management teams• Managed testing and trademark release documentation for FOB SKUs

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Managed two new brand launches simultaneously for Target• Created an item master tracker for both brands and update them daily to track the team’s progress and merchants adds and drops• Collaborate weekly with photo studio to track samples and bring up any possible issues• Engage in a weekly digital cross-functional team to represent the Item team and share my knowledge of the brand assortment to the Site Merchant, Content, and CGI teams• Driving high ready-for-order and ready-for-launch metrics week after week• Manage a SKU intensive business with 5,000 items annually with an additional 1,200 Variations• Created and maintained strong working partnerships with all internal teams• Found opportunities within my business to improve site navigation. Collaborated with executional team to create a better guest experience and increase in digital penetration by 28%.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

- Improved the item setup process by constructing a grid that flowed with the way I setup items and how my counterparts ordered them. - Led the team through a conversion to an Omni-channel inventory. - Composed a bi-monthly newsletter to Target.com housewares vendors to inform them of process changes reducing item setup issues by 50%. - Received recognition for my newsletter by peers & management- Served as Target India MS Captain and offered the team ways to improve their communication with their partners through quarterly video calls and bi-weekly phone calls to check-in. - Pulled weekly sales reports with MerchIQ and analyzed trends.

Fargo, North Dakota Area

Created a social media presence for SpaceAge Synthetics with Facebook and LinkedIn. Wrote, designed, updated, and translated literature pieces to generated brand recognition and product knowledge. Researched global markets and logistic solutions.

Fargo, North Dakota Area

Developed a Wordpress blog, branding for a new refrigerator line, and "Green" kitchen literature for Culinex. Entered online purchase orders and added products to online stores to increase sales and revunue. Designed biweekly sales flyers with Publisher to move overstock products.

Fargo, North Dakota Area

Conducted four to six samplings a week to promote and boost catering sales in the Fargo-Moorhead area. I helped with events and promotions, like Football Fridays with Big 98.7 and Jr. Bison Club to engage with customers on a personal level. Managed the social media for Erbert & Gerberts the Fargo-Moorhead and Bismarck stores and generated a greater following and interaction with customers. *Left position during my study abroad experience from January to July 2013.

Rennes Area, France

Translated the current website from French to English to communicate more international students. Helped in planing and preparation for the spring open house for prospective students. Created a marketing strategy for attracting international students and a database of potential partner schools. Researched successful English programs at French universities and created a strategic plan for EME to establish one with in the next five years.Presented the plan to the board of directors and EME currently is offering a one year English program and more English classes.