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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Plantation, Florida, Us

Responsible for expanding the growth of Chewy's Proprietary Brands portfolio, leading cross-functional teams to disrupt categories through innovation, and bringing to market products and brands to delight pets and pet parents.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Drive strategy development and guide cross functional teams of senior leaders to deliver new growth opportunities for the organization. Projects included identify and executing a differentiated merchandising strategy between the Rack and Full price stores, developing a framework and rolling out a new merchandising prioritization methodology to reallocate corporate assets, facilitating merchandising sr. leadership through the development and execution of their 1 and 3 year strategic plans.

Seattle, Us

Lead a team of researchers, analysts and program managers to drive new business development for REI’s private label business. This work includes quantitative and qualitative research, business case development, macro trend identification, financial modeling, and cross divisional alignment.•Successfully implemented product innovation portfolio and roadmap. •Developed REI’s product partnerships portfolio. Fostered relationships with partners to create differentiated collaborations across varied industries including Home, Automotive, and Production Studios. Developed and executed REI's first product collaboration in partnership with West Elm Design.

Seattle, Us

Responsible for the development and execution of top growth initiatives across merchandising and private label divisions. This included the creation of the strategic roadmap and 3 year financial planning for a several hundred million dollar private label business and serving as the cross divisional lead for key strategies across all merchandising categories.•Mobilized teams across the company as the program lead for REI’s apparel reinvention. Strategies resulted in +30% sales growth in 2017 to 2018.•Optimized the private label product creation process by streamlining processes, determining decision rights, and developing an operating cadence. Product creation timeline reduced by six months across both hardline and softline businesses.•Facilitated merchandising senior leaders through holistic operating model assessment, creating the framework to prioritize resources, place strategic bets for growth, and revise their organizational design.•Recognition: 2017 Leadership Award Winner. Peer nominated and C-Suite selected group of twenty leaders across HQ and the stores are recognized for outstanding results. 2018 Leadership award peer nomination.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Drove corporate transformation efforts in partnership with executive sponsor. Led cross functional working groups to deliver holistic strategies inclusive of people, process, data, and technology, Key skills Vision and Strategy facilitation, Customer Insights, Operating model development, Organizational structure, and Change Leadership.• Partnered directly with SVP and Chief Merchandising Officer to reallocate nearly $4B in assets to accelerate growth of signature categories.• Program lead for merchandising operating model reinvention. Included the merging of the digital and physical store buying and planning teams, assessment of strategic capabilities, and process and technology priorities.• Change lead for Target’s pricing transformation and center of excellence. Included developing change plans within an Agile technology development project.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led a team of 4 responsible for the enterprise roll out of a standard change management methodology at Target. Including developing a framework, standard tools, training programs and marketing strategy. Target Change Management is utilized throughout all business units increasing transformational efficiency and reducing 3rd party expenses.  Facilitated long range strategy plans for executive committee members and their direct reports in multiple business units.  Responsible for planning and managing the Organizational Effectiveness budget, resource planning, and prioritization process.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for enterprise wide strategic initiatives in an internal consulting role. Projects include: supply chain initiatives, business intelligence, corporate strategic priorities, Skills utilized: Big picture thinking, Strategic facilitiation, change management, project management.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsibilties include: Assortment Planning,Store Merchandising, including multicultural, Trend Analysis, Negotiating, Pricing, Promotion Planning, CPG vendor relationships, Category Managment Division Captain, Leading cross functional teams, Coaching and Developing team members and direct reports

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsibilties include: Assortment Planning,Store Merchandising, including multicultural, Trend Analysis, Negotiating, Pricing, Promotion Planning, Community Relations reading events, Curating Target Book Club, Leading cross functional teams, Coaching and Developing team members and direct reports