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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Eden Prairie

Created new financial support model for multiple, highly-matrixed, growth businesses. Secured leadership support and funding to develop a team. Recruited, hired, and successfully on-boarded newly developed finance team. Advanced data driven decisions by leading cross-functional insights committee. Drove vision, organizational support, requirements, and successful delivery of end-to-end data and analytics strategy and road-map. Establishing aligned KPIs, high-performance Teradata data structures, and insightful Tableau dashboards that support the strategic priorities of the Private Brands leadership team. Conceptualized and implemented new fiscal planning process for a recently re-structured Professional Service business segment. Successfully influenced CIO, four newly-appointed VP leaders, two recently acquired companies, and 20 directors to align on this new process. Developed business-driven, leadership-aligned plan in shortened timeline. Established team vision and fostered alignment across the Finance and Business teams. Grew alignment and propelled impactful results through communicating vision, managing prioritization and setting clear goals and objectives. Produced long-range plans, annual budgets, monthly forecasts, provided business insights and evaluated investment decisions for Professional Services, Marketing, and Private Brands businesses.Recruited high-potential talent and created a culture of success by recognizing great results and actively managing opportunities for improvement. Drove financial accountability by creating and delivering an intuitive reporting toolkit, identifying and sharing business insights, and facilitating business review conversations.Fostered strong relationships with the CIO, VP of Marketing, and VP of Private Brands to understand business priorities and advance profitable growth initiatives on over $1B Revenue annually. Currently learning Alteryx. Expanding knowledge on Oracle Essbase, Tableau, and Teradata.

Successfully drove a top strategic priority for the company by developing and implemented new product pricing structure. Change Leadership: Developed communication strategy and managed vendor negotiations resulting in profitable financial results.Financial Leadership: Handpicked by Finance leadership team to own P&L, grow business, and improve financial management and operational processes. Drove full business turn-around in under 9 months. Operational Leadership: Created a customer transition plan for a newly acquired business. Developed operations change plan and customer engagement plan. Successfully on-boarded a team leader to execute the plans.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Drove new vision for the Wholesale reporting team that was rooted in data governance, intuitive reporting, and driving prioritized business insights. Gained leadership alignment and funding to build out the first phase of the road map. Established aligned KPIs, high-performance Teradata data structures, and insightful Tableau dashboards that supported the strategic priorities of the Wholesale leadership team. Team Leadership: Drove team alignment through communicating vision, managing prioritization and setting clear goals and objectives.Team Development: Built a team of five results-driven, influential insights analysts and project managers. Recruited, hired and successfully on-boarded three new team members. Developed high-potential talent. Created a culture of success by recognizing great results and actively managing opportunities.Project Leadership: Developed project management timelines capturing critical milestones, key due dates, responsibilities, and KPIs. Scheduled and led project planning meetings with leadership team and cross-functional team, issued meeting summaries and action items. Ensure all project deliverables were executed on time and on budget as agreed to in the statement of work. Delivered first ever Vendor Funding Insights dashboard.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed strategies to improve supply chain processes and reduce inventory expenses for the Canada business. In my time as a Senior Project Manager, I accomplished:Forecasting Excellence: Independently identified risk to revenue and expense forecasts of a $1.8B business. Presented findings and recommendations in a concise and effective manner to Finance and Merchandising VPs and Directors. Quickly became the Canada CFO's go-to analyst for all inventory related questions.Data Driven Decisions: Created a Tableau report that projected inventory receipt risk up to 6 months out. Identified opportunities to improve inventory flow process. Developed process improvement plan, gained VP+ leadership buy-in and quickly rolled out new process to team. Successfully reduced Q4 receipt risk by $27M.Analytics and Reporting Excellence: Created insightful holiday reporting package that gave Target leadership visibility to the performance of key holiday events.Indirect Influencing: Established and maintained supportive relationships with merchandising teams and global offices. Ensured effective communication, adoption and execution of new processes.Led change management strategies for newly developed analytics tools. Strategies involved impact analysis, stakeholder engagement and communication plans. Ensured business readiness, user adoption and knowledge transfer. Maximized the spend on a $17M SAP HANA development project and drove optimal business decisions through improved reporting and analytics. Process Improvement: Learned the Agile Scrum methodology through participation in a SAP HANA project. Developed a plan to improve frequency and quality of communication between the Scrum development team and the business users. Stood up a team to execute the plan, resulting in more productive sprints and improved data and reporting solutions.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed adoption strategies for an enterprise-wide technology initiative. This effort involved driving awareness and acceptance of thirty new technologies to over 20,000 team members world-wide. In my time as a HR Operations Consultant, I accomplished:Enterprise Engagement: Drove awareness to the change by designing an engaging presentation, inspiring team members to learn about the new technologies. Presentation included elements of risk taking, challenging the status quo, and highlighting exciting new technologies available to team members. The live demo presentation quickly gained popularity. My team was invited to present at over 135 team meetings, presenting in front of over 10,800 team members. I personally presented at 60 team meetings in front of over 5,000 team members.Enterprise Behavior Change: Created an innovative training series encouraging team members to experiment with and adopt the new technologies. The series focused on making it safe for different types of learners to try the technologies, watch live demos, and talk to experts from around the enterprise. Over 1,000 team members attended the series during the 14 week, 23 session event. Over 200 Team members visited more than one time.Expense Management: Developed strategies to shutdown expensive old tools and move team member engagement to new technologies. Partnered with teams around the organization to seamlessly shutdown tools soon after the launch of new tools.Leadership Engagement: Supported leadership adoption of new technologies by creating events to make it safe for this audience to learn, embrace, and encourage teams to adopt the new technologies.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provided consulting services for the creation of a vendor-facing SharePoint portal. Created training, support and communications plans for the successful site rollout. In my time as a Business Process Consultant, I accomplished:Driving For Results: Coordinated efforts with development team and end users to ensure a successful SharePoint site development. Developed and executed extensive testing plan. Site successfully launched on time without defects.Resource Planning: Projected headcount needs, secured funding, hired contractor team and managed team that executed site content build activities prior to launch. Team successfully followed processes and met deadlines.Leadership Engagement: Met regularly with leadership stakeholder group to share ideas and vision, incorporated feedback from group, and shared wins. Gained consensus and excitement on final results.Indirect Influencing: Developed change management plan for the project. Created training, support and communications plans for multiple audiences. Facilitated training, executed communication plan and implemented support services. Resulted in a successful site adoption.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Oversaw P&L of over $500M in annual sales across 1,750 nationwide locations. Managed seven transitions a year with over 1,500 SKUs from multiple vendor types within the following categories: seasonal decor, storage, non-perishable food, stationery and toys. In my time as a buyer I accomplished:Strategy Development: Developed and implemented key item assortment strategy that improved reliability for the guest. Strategy resulted in annual same space sales growth of +15% and annual markdown savings of $1.5M. Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Drove creation and integration of new process calendar. Improved strategy development, enhanced vendor collaboration, optimized supply chain and ensured safe, reliable product. Innovation: Created an innovative “Stocking Stuffers” strategy for the Holiday transition. Improved product content, display, and signing resulted in 6% sales growth.Forecasting Excellence: Developed annual department sales and markdown plan and managed monthly forecast activities.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

In my time as a pricing leader I accomplished:Strategic Communication: Designed and led cross-functional implementation of new Strategic Pricing Dashboard, which shared critical insights and highlighted progress-to-date on team objectives. Audience included Director, VP, SVP, and EVP levels.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed clearance pricing strategies for multiple divisions and multiple company-wide seasonal markdown programs. In my time as a pricing expert I accomplished:Expense Management: Championed clearance markdown strategies that delivered the first-ever green clearance scorecard for a Domestics transition. Strategies implemented resulted in over $5M gross margin savings.Team Development: Mentored multiple Pricing Experts. Focused on building self-confidence, developing systems knowledge, and building relationships with key partners.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Oversaw inventory management of a fast growing ecommerce business. Developed import, domestic and direct from vendor inventory flow strategies for Preschool Toys and Boys Toys. In my time as a senior business analyst I accomplished:Driving Data Driven Decisions: Developed and implemented efficient ordering processes, projection/chase/cancel strategies, and improved timelines for the Target.com Toys BU that resulted in achieving sales +33% to plan, gross margin rate positive to plan, and turn improvement +40% to plan.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Oversaw inventory management of a fast growing ecommerce business. Developed import, domestic and direct from vendor inventory flow strategies for home office furniture and back to college furniture. In my time as a business analyst I accomplished:Driving inventory discipline: Developed and implemented efficient ordering processes, projection/chase/cancel strategies, and improved timelines for the Target.com Furniture BU that resulted in achieving sales +100% to plan, gross margin rate positive to plan, and turn improvement +120% to plan.Supply Chain Process Improvement: Streamlined problem receiving process with supply chain teams to identify and resolve receiving issues quickly. Team Development: Mentored multiple business analysts and managed interns. Focused on building self-confidence, developing systems knowledge, and building relationships with key partners.

Executive Education, Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Mini Master in Financial Management, Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Leadership and Management Program

Bs Economics, Economics And Business

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude, Economics Department Tutor