• Global Product Management Leadership: Lead a global product management team overseeing core vendor data, web platform, and support services. Team’s focuses included developing and implementing a new core vendor data management product, developing a GenAI-powered chatbot to improve the speed and quality of user support, and beginning to develop a new web platform• Enterprise Product Strategy Development: Led the development of the Product vision, principles and strategy to simplify the ecosystem of 65+ applications and dashboards vendors use to conduct business with Target• Product Culture and Operating Model: Led the development of an experience-led product taxonomy to facilitate planning and collaboration routines across 12+ product domains in support of operationalizing the enterprise product strategy. • Organizational design & resourcing: Collaborated with senior leaders to secure funding for Product Management, Engineering, and UX resources in support of enterprise priorities. Worked with UX, Engineering, and Data peers to prioritize and align resources while coaching teams to operate in a product model

•Team Leadership: Led a team responsible for defining and implementing consistent end-to-end activities, roles & responsibilities, and KPIs for the assortment planning process• Organizational design: Redesigned and operationalized the customer success responsible for developing and delivering the support and training for Financial and Assortment Planning products. The new team delivered faster and higher quality support while reducing Product Manager and Engineering involvement in unplanned support-related tasks. • Enterprise Priority Management: Served as the initiative lead responsible for driving the quarterly planning and update routines as well as connecting assortment planning initiatives with other enterprise priorities to enhance cross-functional collaboration, reduce duplication, and align resources

• Product Strategy & Vision: Define and execute the roadmap for advanced assortment insights, focusing on integrating new and existing consumer demand signal data to inform product selection and development strategies.• Data & Analytics Development: Lead the end-to-end development of innovative data solutions, including advanced analytics and reporting tools, enabling teams to track and act on national and localized consumer behavior trends.• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal stakeholders in Merchandising, Marketing, and Technology to align product solutions with business goals and ensure seamless implementation and adoption.• Partnership Management: Serve as a strategic representative for key external partners, such as Google and Pinterest, collaborating on proof-of-concept initiatives that harness their data to enhance merchandising decisions.• Insights & Decision-Making: Leverage consumer insights and market trends to continuously refine product offerings, ensuring the organization stays ahead of emerging retail trends and customer expectations.

• Project management: Project based consultant, working with Merchandising VPs and SVPs and leveraging Market, Guest, and Competitive insights to drive merchandising strategies
• Cross-functional leadership: Led multiple cross-functional teams through the project life cycle, from project definition to execution. Develop and managed project plans, stakeholders, timelines, and communication • Insights generation: Analyzed, interpreted, and synthesized information from multiple sources including guest data, financial reporting, market insights, category managers, vendors, and competitive analysis to derive actionable insights

• Merchandise strategy: Responsible for developing initial assortment, space, and presentation strategies for multiple businesses including Healthcare, Beauty, Household, and Baby Essentials for first-of-their-kind small format stores. Categories accounted for 25-40% of the assortment and 30% of Sales in small format stores, which were a key growth factor for the company• Cross-functional Team Leadership: Lead multiple cross-functional teams in evaluation and development of new business opportunities for Target including transit cards and postage stamps

• Team leadership: Led a team of 3 Business Analysts and 1-2 trainees with the responsibilities of forecasting, ordering, and allocating $2B+ of inventory annually • Supply chain strategy: Work with many of the world’s largest CPG vendors to design supply chain initiatives to minimize average inventory and supply chain expense while maximizing Sales and Instocks• Coaching & development: Prepared and delivered performance evaluations, and built development plans based on team members’ strengths and developmental opportunities

• One of 6 Project Leaders selected to be a member of a Supply Chain Special Projects team within the Merchandise Planning Operations division. My team was one of only a few teams in Target to win a “Best Team” award in 2011 for our efforts to develop and test new supply chain strategies and technologies.• Lead a cross functional team to identify root causes for inventory misallocation. Designed processes and systems that in 2012 blocked over $120MM of misallocated inventory, saving Target over $31MM in markdowns.• Represented Merchandise Planning as part of the End to End Supply Chain Initiative to identify innovative tactics to improve inventory flow from truck to shelf.

• Merchandise Planning Analyst responsible for managing the sales forecast, ordering and allocation of more than $300M of inventory annually.• Partnered with Buyers and Vendors to develop sales forecasts and replenishment strategies focused on maximizing the profitability of the assortment for the Office Tools and Storage categories.• Worked with Target’s Business Insights & Analytics team to develop a more accurate process and model for forecasting partial store markdowns, which enabled Target to proactively address under-performing SKUs in-season which reduced markdown liability by $2MM during the 2010 back-to-school season.