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Kirkland, WA, US

Boston, MA, US

• Lead team of talent business partners, people analytics and learning & development managers tasked with identifying and executing strategic initiatives impacting more than 3,000 employees; focus areas include.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led global team serving SVP/VP internal clients on engagement based projects to scope, research, and report actions using various research inputs (i.e., focus groups, interviews, surveys, user testing, third party.

Seattle, WA, US

• Prototyped competitive benchmarking platform using Design Thinking principles to identify user needs, collect and prioritize inputs, and communicate MVP requirements to technical teams for development.
• Led team to gather and summarize input from 20,000 customers across 6 countries to identify, prioritize, and present a roadmap of actions and initiatives to SVP-level clients impacting a $43B+ business.
• Drove $9M in forecasted annual cost savings by creating a new vendor evaluation playbook, scorecard, and RFP process by collaborating across strategy teams to identify business requirements, and create, socialize and.

New York, NY, US

• Led a team for 16 weeks to develop a vision, approach, and roadmap for assessing customer and employee experience improvement strategies, and measuring Return on Experience (RoX) with PwC Strategy&'s top 150 retail and.
• Led a team for 7 weeks to synthesize and analyze demographic data, create consumer segments, and recommend engagement strategies to expand the donor base of a national U.S. nonprofit.
• Facilitated a digital marketing assessment across 5 global markets to identify existing capability gaps and recommend gap-closing technology investments to the executives of an $18B multinational company.
• Organized and led 50 interviews, 6 workshops, and 3 focus groups (in local language) in 5 countries as part of a 15-week employee experience (EX) improvement assessment affecting over 10,000 employees.
• Developed 8 skill assessments and 26 learning modules using customer experience (CX) journey mapping to create a comprehensive performance development tool for leaders of a Fortune 500 financial institution.

St Cloud, Minnesota, US

• Increased click rate 21% and reach 15% by consulting with brand managers to frame issues, develop agile solutions, and execute them via social media engagement campaigns for clients.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Developed and presented an optimized online merchandising strategy for the Larabar brand, and managed graphic designer through initial implementation phases for Amazon, Thrive Market, and Jet.com eCommerce retailers.
• Sold 2 exclusive flavors successfully to Target and Kroger after leading a cross-functional team of 9 people to formulate, design, sample, and produce the new product.
• Analyzed category-wide sales performance, using insights to present a business case persuading leadership to pursue 4 feet of additional shelf space for the Larabar brand.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Promoted twice within 90-day period with vice president support, 15 months earlier than other analysts.
• Synthesized complex request from 4 internal executive level clients to right size a $2B business by scoping, researching, presenting, and executing a solution from issue to impact.
• Influenced $2M in inventory expense savings by analyzing sales data to present formal recommendations that garnered executive support to reposition and segment a product assortment.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Launched Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6+ nationwide driving +$5M in release week sales by collaborating closely with internal & external stakeholders.
• Achieved a 69% sales lift within a $499M mobile business in 42 test stores by redesigning and implementing a simplified fixture procurement process.
• Increased sales by 16% in 45 test stores by creating new product presentation strategy for a $300M business, later scaled to 274 stores to burgeon growth.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Executed aisle level merchandise strategy execution of a $1B dollar business within the Electronics division for all U.S. Target stores.
• Communicated timing and action needs across the organization and removed execution barriers to ensure cross-functional teams met key milestones.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Conducted competitive pricing comparison of a product line across integrated web and print marketing channels leading to future a mark-up pricing strategy.
• Strategized, wire-framed solutions, and delegated execution of a project to simplify the online sales channel shopping experience in partnership with Sr. E-Commerce Product Management.
• Researched, pitched, and won senior leadership buy-in to invest in a social media ad campaign supporting a growing online retail sub-brand.
• Delved into sales channel sampling data to analyze and minimize current and future sampling expenses. This analysis more efficiently satisfied demand, and lowered vertically integrated production costs.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Researched and presented trend analyses of technology, digital, out of home, print, and television advertising channels on a weekly basis.
• Assisted the media planner with publisher reporting and invoicing utilizing research tools such as Dart For Advertisers and Google AdWords on a weekly basis to track time series data specific to our digital campaigns.
• Monitored budgets for a number of client accounts under the supervision of the Media Planner to ensure our awareness and acquisition campaigns were on track with budgetary contractual agreements.

Marshall, Minnesota, US

• Created and implemented primary market research through survey development/execution to gather data that informed and influenced our B2B market position.
• Collaborated with a remote team of 4 to create & present a cross-functional intern project to Schwan's senior management revitalizing our brand packaging to communicate our sustainability goals and objectives.
• Collaborated with agency account management and brand planning teams to re-align our brand strategy within the Food Service Pizza Division.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• Conducted field research to glean insight on changing demographics and target market purchasing characteristics in the University of Minnesota vicinity regarding a small retail grocer.
• Distributed surveys to target market consumers to gain cross-sectional data on and analyze purchase point decision making by our target sample population. Used survey data and analysis to assist in proper retail.
• Utilized regression models including conjoint analysis specifically to gauge consumer tradeoffs when choosing a grocer in the University of Minnesota East Bank vicinity.
• Presented recommendations regarding store layout, and retail strategy to a group of 45 colleagues based on primary research.

Bachelor Of Science, Applied Economics, Marketing

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Corporate Strategy, Marketing