Kate Smith Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Lead our amazing recruitment department manager + coordinators, project managers and onsite research study team. - Created custom project bidding processes, resulting in an ongoing 35% growth in rate of projects awarded.- Developed a client communication process pipeline that resulted in a substantial increase of repeat client business frequency.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Created and executed the research capabilities of Ascendancy resulting in the growth from Minnesota based research only, to a North American research panel, with abilities to field in person as well as virtual.
• Managed a phenomenal team of Research Recruiters, providing them with new processes to attain higher quality respondents in a shorter period of time, therefore decreasing costs to client and fielding research projects.
• Increased research respondent database by equipping my team with strategic outreach collateral, reorganizing the respondent acquisition pipeline, and problem solving current road blocks in the utilization of the.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Designed, organized and launched marketing campaigns to assist in the recruitment of qualitative and quantitative research studies.- Collaborated with research management team to create and execute ongoing outreach and engagement to increase our research participation panels.- Lead a redesign of Ascendancy Research's logo, marketing materials, and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Award-winning free bi-monthly parenting magazine that address the concerns and needs of families, with a special focus on children from prenatal through adolescence.
• Developed new relationships with clients, as well as maintained existing relationships in the marketplace, leading to sales & client satisfaction growth.
• Spearheaded the creation, implementation and debut of a complete re-vamp of the magazine in terms of editorial, print quality, media kits and distribution, which led to a huge advancement in reader pick up rates.
• Successfully managed and participated in the sales team which lead to print sales ad sale growth of 233%, while simultaneously lowering operation costs.

Bloomington, Minnesota

• Non-profit healthcare provider & insurance company.
• Analyzed the correlations between medical conditions and the local communities they most frequently occur in, as well as conducted a change impact analysis to assess the potential problems/improvements that would occur.
• This work directly assisted business planning & medical plan coverage planning offered in local Minnesota communities.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Worked directly with the local Marketing Manager to promote and assist in planning the 2008 Illume event, which took place at the Guthrie Theater and Stone Arch Bridge.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Traveled to events through out the Metro area to bring brand awareness to Chevrolet.