Josh Carlson, Mba Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

* Centralized subscription management by partnering with Sales, Finance, Analytics and IT teams which saved hours of time and codified how the company thought about subscription services. * Purchased Tableau and grew our implementation from 11 people to nearly 200 by focusing on agile analytics development and finding quick wins across multiple teams.*.

Minneapolis, MN

• Managed five team members responsible for roughly 60 end user support requests a week, more than 100 data management procedures, and application management for 12 data models used by more than 2,000 users of SAP.
• Collaborated with IT on ETL processes to automate data and application management practices.
• Worked with BI development teams to ensure best practices were built into long term development requirements.
• Consulted on new application development to ensure that change management occurred, data quality standards were met, and end user support functions were understood and communicated.
• Built a training course for new end users, including developing materials, which facilitated long term tool and process knowledge within end user teams.
• Coached team members on career and skill development.

• Led the team’s SAP implementation project by designing and creating processes and training stakeholders. The near seamless transition was seen as one of the best in the company.
• Recognized by groups within PD, Business Intelligence, and Finance FP&A for work to develop processes for submitting forecasts, compiling reporting, and analyzing results.
• Communicated Property Development forecasts, goals, and operational storylines in front of finance leadership on a monthly basis.
• Improved data and reporting efficiency to free up both my time and the time of partners to focus on other value added work and understand underlying story more effectively.

• Created new ways to obtain data and apply data management with advanced reporting by using multiple Business Intelligence tools including Access, WebFOCUS, and Microstrategy.
• Received a Certificate of Excellence from the VP of Expense Management for my work to combine Capital Spending and Expense Spending into one Total Spending Report.
• Led team through reporting methodology change by creating standardized reporting aligned to Total Spending direction which provided a consistent message across all of Target Technology Services.

• Engineered a Performance Reporting tool that combined multiple data sets into a simple, intuitive tool that users praised as exactly what they wanted.
• Analyzed and interpreted merchandising data to provide new results and unique views on product mix to impact distribution network planning.
• Trained new team members on Target systems and distribution analysis increasing overall group knowledge.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management, 3.9

Focused my coursework on Management including highlights such as entrepreneurship, strategic leadership, negotiations, and corporate.

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, Economics, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Truth in Business: Co-founder and TreasurerDeveloped my own degree program that combined the best of economics.