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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Category manager over six classes of product and serving as a digital captain overseeing three analysts’ work; Managed weekly revisions critical to category success; Provided weekly reporting in addition to ad hoc and yearly recommendations on space improvements; Continued in competitive benchmarking to ensure offers and content were on par with market; Consistently accommodated last minute requests creating a flexible environment; Assisted in creation and troubleshooting of survey language for insight team projects; Created presentation templates and standards of digital work as the space evolved.• Managed over 900 planograms, product placement on those planograms, and their segmentation.• Executed over 80 revisions in addition to execution on major transition timelines.• Received an overwhelmingly positive scorecard (4.9/5.0) from Target buyer in first full year in role.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Competitively benchmarked against total mass retailers in key time frames and launches; Trusted in recommending and confirming assortments; Created multiple copy and paste templates utilizing raw outputs of Adobe Analytics and other tools; Presented data and digital findings to a variety of audiences to demonstrate the importance of digital traffic; Trained entire teams on what digital verbiage mean, how to use metrics, and how to improve content; Curated relevant online assortments for holidays on an ongoing basis; Identified an 11k+ sku drop off online that was unknown to business unit; Utilized Adobe Analytics to identify key marketing channel opportunities on a category basis.• Desigen, wrote and provided 12 product content guideline books for establishing quality standards.• Presented taxonomy, content, and navigational improvements for 23 different projects on Target’s website.• Captured and escalated 27 instances of poor product content at launch creating higher content standards.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Examined and analyzed statistical data; Prepared project reports including graphics of research results; Managed project delivery, data proofing, and encryption of data; Programmed computer displays for all projects’ interviews; Assisted in creation and troubleshooting of survey language; Managed survey samples to help reach completion goals for qualitative and quantitative projects; Served as Security Officer in the workplace.• Created, analyzed, and interpreted crosstabs to give clients valuable insights via charts and recommendations.• Presented to various client audiences, communicating the importance of data gathered in the study.• Fully redesigned and updated company website on the Wix platform, updating a research column monthly.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Communicated and worked effectively with vendors and customers; Tracked all purchase orders; Identified issues and provide actionable information to account manager; Effectively managed the sample process ensuring they are ordered, tracked, labeled, and provided in a timely manner to the retailer; Multitasked in an everchanging role and rapid work environment.• Sample audit of over 100 items and their details passed based solely on the examination performed by myself of how the items compare to what was currently recorded in the system.• Monthly purchase order imbalances were verified and corrected as necessary working closely with the finance department.

Monticello, Minnesota

Maintained a FIFO oriented dairy selection for guests; Trusted to work independently throughout the store; Provided exceptional guest service that leaves a lasting impression of the store; Assisted teammates in any situation applicable to training I completed; Assisted guests with inquiries they have about a product or the store; Redistributed products throughout the store.

Sioux Center, Ia

Interacted with incoming members or customers of the center; Utilized facility to prepare clothing and towels for our facilities users; Controlled a variety of transactions at the cash registers based on the customer’s current status with the center.

Omaha, Ne

Utilized proprietary software and MySQL RDBMS to generate rule sets which allow standardization of business names; Tested the rule sets to ensure 99%+ accuracy; Wrote several instructional manuals describing the processes of researching business franchises and finding name variations for those franchises; Accompanied sales person on week-long trip, visiting libraries across Minnesota.• Net result of internship was the generation of 1,200 rules which added 27,000+ to the set of standardized business names.• Finishing the task of standardization earlier than anticipated left time to write up the experience documenting how to perform the standardization in the future if necessary.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration: Marketing Emphasis And Psychology: General

Activities and Societies: Leader of the Psychology Club, Concert Band, Co-Ed Dance, Variety of Intramural Sports

High School

Activities and Societies: 4 Years of Basketball: Senior Year Captain; 1 Year of Baseball; 1 Year of Track; 4 Years of Band; 3 Years.