Katie Witte Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Eden Prairie, Mn

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading in store marketing (in store signing) for highly visible Seasonal business, including campaigns like Holiday, Valentine's Day, Summer and Back to College. As a Project Manager, I focus on:Financial Management: Manage multiple campaign budgets, ranging from $1-12M annually. I manage internal marketing budgets, as well as vendor income specific to individual campaigns.Brand Management: Drove results by managing detailed 52-week T&A, tailored for individual campaign execution. This resulted in near flawless execution for each campaign. Roles and responsibilities were clearly outlined for each partner and encouraged engagement throughout the process.Cross Functional Team: Engaged and inspired cross-functional team, including merchandising, creative, procurement and external creative agencies to perform their roles, encouraging seamless signing execution. I navigated unexpected changes and delays by clearly communicating risks and rewards of possible decisions, including financial and timing impacts to each possible solution, which allowed the teams to confidently make decisions that had positive impacts to the bottom line.Leadership Development: Responsible for developing and driving strategy for overall marketing team SharePoint site, used by over 100 team members. I developed the strategy, training plan and roll out schedule to meet company-wide goals and created structure of new site. In addition, I led communication to engage and inspire cross-functional team to encourage conversion.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading In Store Marketing campaigns in Hair and Skincare categories. As an Operations Specialist I focused on:Financial Management: Manage multiple campaign budgets, ranging from $500K - $6M. I also oversaw the vendor income collection, resulting in company savings of over $1.2M.Brand Management: I led the signing rollout of $100M fixture/signing package to key areas within Hair and Skincare.Cross Functional Team: Brought together cross-functional team, including merchandising, creative, procurement and external creative agencies to perform their roles within the timeline to ensure flawless execution of signing to stores. Leadership Development: Managed execution of Hair and Skincare signing shipments to Canada during inaugural roll out year resulting in an enhanced in store experience. I also clearly defined and presented roles and responsibilities of category captains during Merchandise Presentation Vendor Day.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading production and logistics of In Store Signing yearly transitions within Electronics categoy. As the In Store Marketing Operations Specialist I focused on:Cross Functional Team: Collaborate with cross functional team, including Merchandising, Marketing, and Procurement partners to develop strategy & execute solutions for in-store signing.Brand Management: I drove strategic initiative to streamline timing and action for product specific signing. By driving streamlined timing, project resulted in better alignment with merchant goals to be responsive to frequent product changes. In addition, I tracked progress of in store execution and continually evaluate opportunities to improve results by gathering cross-functional team for pause and learn meeting and reaching out to Store Operations for feedback after each signing set.Leadership Development: I presented streamlined timing project as potential best practice to senior managers and peers, which was implemented and utilized across Electronics category.

Primary point of client interaction for sales and event planning; directly responsible for annual revenue of over 3 million. As a Sr. Catering Sales Coordinator, I focused on: Brand Management: I leveraged strong project management and communication skills to plan and execute over 2,600 events. I also developed and established guidelines for successful client communication.Leadership Development: I on-boarded, trained and managed three Catering Sales Coordinators

As an Assistant Food Service Director, I recruited, hired and managed student staff including conducting training for all new and current employees. I also managed operations including employee scheduling for team of 20 student workers

I managed an undergraduate staff to deliver excellent customer satisfaction at an Einstein Bagels on campus. As a Student Manager, I focused on talent management by managed 20 student workers including evaluations, reviews and disciplinary action. In addition, I created and provided on-boarding training processes for new employees