Kelly Clayton Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Lead Product Developer for Key Accounts.
• Oversees Development & Design strategy for Key Accounts. This includes the steps from ideation through the product life cycle.
• Manages Communication to Key Accounts. This includes day to day emails & sales presentations.
• Collaborates with Design Team to ideate & develop product with each Key Account in mind.
• Manages Product Development calendars across several accounts to meet key milestone dates. Directly manages these dates with Product Development, Design, & Sourcing to align and ensure deadlines are met.
• Works with Sourcing Manager to meet both internal and client margin goals.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Collaborate cross-functionally to establish design, product development, financial analysis and assortment strategy.
• Responsible for tracking and managing all financial aspects of programs to meet or exceed budget goals.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and project management to multiple departments from initial development to in store sets, including pre- production and production.
• Support and manage all stages of the product life cycle, generating ideas and identify gaps in assortments that can help determine where there is need for product development and innovation.
• Utilize macro to micro trend development through competitive and market shopping, trend service review, and lifestyle/cultural research. Stays abreast of trends in the marketplace to ensure the product/assortment's.
• Ownership of in-depth business trends, product innovation, customer brand guidelines and business objectives.

• Primary Responsibilities Include:
• Work collaboratively with the Product Development Manager and Product Designer to accomplish product development goals.
• Effectively communicate with factory partners to seek and confirm materials, finishes, and items that achieve value and costing requirements.
• Data management of costing received from factories within various documents ( I.e line plans and costing worksheets), to effectively do duct costing meetings with Supply Chain Managers.
• Manage the internal timing and action calendar based on customer's timelines and deadlines to help the entire Product Development & Design team plan for deliverables.
• Create and Manage presentation decks to help support product direction at line reviews and key meetings.

• As a Product Development Assistant, I am responsible for supporting the Product Development Manager in creative development and execution of assigned product categories.Primary Responsibilities Include:
• Participating in brainstorming sessions for new product ideas that meet company initiatives and customer needs.
• Responsible for competitive product and sales analysis including market research and competitive shopping among key retailers to track trends, pricing, and packaging formats.
• Responsible for sourcing trend right product online in foreign markets to fit within the pricing constraints.
• Creating and maintaining development grids using internal database system to track samples, item costs and spec information throughout the development process.
• Involved in overseas communication to follow up on product sourcing, sample tracking, and development sample issues.

• Key responsibilities included data management, file organization, drafting office memos using Microsoft word.
• Managed awards and proposals for their final destinations, entered data into excel and kept the database organized.
• Provided administrative and executive support within a busy office.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Acquire, convert and retain users on the ByME app.
• Identify and execute on campus marketing opportunities.
• Participate in business strategy decisions with senior team members.
• Find and meet with influential students and staff on campus.
• Schedule and give mini presentations in front of classes and student groups.
• Inform senior team members of issues students are having with the app.

Ecommerce

• Increase brand awareness and generate leads and sales.
• Market Ellie across various social networking sites.

University Of Minnesota

• My role within EFDAQ was promoting and marketing this innovative new POS experience to retail food locations everywhere.
• Perform Market Analysis and develop marketing strategies.

• I was selected to be a denim expert and jewelry expert for AEO. I was responsible for maintaining jewelry displays through inventory, marketing, and sales to generate effective product movement as well as being.
• Worked with other sales team members to help store achieve daily and monthly sales goals as well as develop a rapport with the customers to establish a more effective customer relationship.