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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Onboard brand partners to the digital ecommerce space with specific trainings and guidance on how to successfully manage their Target.com assortment and how to drive sales online.
• Key Stakeholder in the successful Ultra Brands launch on Target.com and in stores. Collaborated one-on-one with Ulta brand partners to complete item setups, order management, and delivery of product.
• Lead the transition of PCN (Product, Costing, and Negotiations) system support to the Item Support Team. This is accomplished through creating and facilitating trainings, knowledge shares, and collaborating with.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and System Users on multiple new system releases and enhancements through define and discovery. Provide analytical insight into the impact of solutions. Test system.
• Partner closely with technical teams, participating in daily stand-ups to voice identified patterns, ensuring high impact is at the forefront and push for root cause. Analyze ticket volume by application through DOMO.
• Create and facilitate monthly trainings to vendors for PCN (Product, Costing, and Negotiations) and CEP (Content Pipeline) to educate vendors how to create items and content to enable a superior guest experience.

South St. Paul, MN

Responsible for managing over 400 customer accounts.-Prepare and process billing and invoicing.-Provide solutions to a variety of unexpected problems that arise daily and to customer concerns.-Provide exceptional customer service and educate customers on insurance coverages.-Advocate on behalf of customers for the best trucking insurance rates that are.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for extensive system knowledge, business process and the inter-relationship between them.-Analyze issues/processes and look for patterns and trends, recommending long term corrective actions to current enterprise challenges.-Play an active role in the testing, documentation, training and communicating of new merchandising system.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Acted as the Ariba Application Suite System Administrator responsible for client support for indirect procurement, supplier enablement, and vendor management.
• Implemented process improvements to increase levels of services, evaluated and streamlined client communication vehicles for procurement teams and vendors, and created new supplier training materials for Target's Ariba.
• Implemented enhancements to the Indirect Procurement Supplier Portal to communicate system issues real-time. Provided a new collaboration report to assist Maximo suppliers in finding their collaboration requests to.
• Utilized my Indirect Procurement Process expertise in the identification, documentation, research, and resolution of business impacts after the implementation of the TIPP/Maximo interface. Provided recommendations on.
• Identified a training opportunity for Procurement Teams on the process completed by suppliers in the TIPP/Ariba tool set. The training provided consisted of: catalog creation and publication, PO confirmation, shipment.
• Sole TIPP/Ariba support for 1800 vendors from September 2007 through January 2010. Support consisted of: supplier enablement, catalog publishing, collaboration process, and invoicing. Consistently met 24 hour LOS.

Responsible for extensive system knowledge, business process and the inter-relationship between them.-Analyzed issues/processes and look for patterns and trends, recommending long term corrective actions to current enterprise challenges.-Played an active role in the testing, documentation, training and communicating of new merchandising system.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Produced accurate, complete and executable transition communication packages for the stores.-Maintained store ties to ensure accurate footage.-Researched and responded to store transition execution questions.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Partnered with buyers and vendors to achieve optimal inventory levels and drive sales, which directly impact the bottom line. Analyzed sales trends and formulated in-depth inventory forecasts to distribute product to all stores nationwide.-Owned multiple product categories, accountable for driving sales, margin and inventory decisions.-Projected trends and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Monitored trends to help manage music inventory, order proper merchandise and streamline the supply chain. Utilized my strategic skills to drive profitable sales in my music categories.

Bachelor’S Degree, Fashion Merchandising

Associate’S Degree, Marketing