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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Research manager in Product Innovation - Retail team coordinating among clients and internal sales & operations teams to plan & execute research, analyze data, and interpret & summarize results to make the research come alive for clients. Responsible for managing 4-8 studies simultaneously across a wide variety of solutions – including brand health tracking, package design tests, ad campaign tracking & evaluation, concept & claims testing, and custom awareness & usage studies.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Selected as US solution expert for top-selling package design evaluation research, responsible for answering sales & research questions about the solution, leading research trainings, and keeping the research team informed on package testing research that directly informs how clients go to market with optimized designs. Piloted an 8-country international tracker for a top client, coordinating with internal teams across the globe from consultants to programmers to field managers to successfully set the groundwork for a program that’s sustainable & adaptable to meet the client’s needs into the future.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Served as day-to-day liaison for elite Fortunate 100 clients, coordinating multiple research engagements with annual combined revenue of $1 MM+ simultaneously. Oversaw studies throughout project lifecycle, including monitoring job quality and scope changes, and overseeing execution of the research process across multiple teams.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Consistently and successfully served as a main liaison between multiple internal teams, senior management, and clients to translate clients’ objectives into actionable insights via proposal writing, pricing, survey design, sample planning, report design, and data analysis.Nominated by teammates to receive Nielsen’s Simply Excellent Award for management of a research program with a grocery retail client that resulted in a store layout change and increased visits.

Primary client contact and project management of highly visible $1 MM+ international tracker focused on retail customer loyalty (18 countries, 12 languages). Responsible for day-to-day communications, project changes, and ad hoc requests, while ensuring profitability and on-time delivery of results.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Coordinated operations and led quality control of a custom online reporting system with hundreds of thousands of data points, resulting in real time access to data for client and more than 50% reduction in research and operations hours quarterly as well as higher quality data.

Took over leadership of a highly visible study when a colleague left the position suddenly. Kept research running with consistent quality and no delay in deliverables despite the reduced team.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Performed quality assurance on data tables and client deliverables for highly visible B2C international tracking study.

Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan

Children’s English language teacher for beginning to intermediate students in Japan. Taught and wrote lesson plans for more than 20 classes each week for students ranging from preschool to junior high school age.Advanced the proficiency and enjoyment of English language for young learners while serving as a cultural ambassador, teaching Japanese children and adults about American culture.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Developed story ideas, wrote articles, took photographs, and created page layout for community newspaper serving one of Oregon’s most visited cities, telling stories and covering arts community and writing features on community members.Developed and grew relationships with community members, organization leaders, business owners, and readers, creating high quality content.

Served as the sole reporter and photographer, telling stories and covering news (general assignment reporting and features) on topics from city council and school events to real estate to business.Recognized numerous times by the National Newspaper Association, receiving multiple awards in the NNA’s Better Newspaper Contest, including General Excellence and Best Community/Lifestyle Coverage.