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Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

Primary job function is to work closely with the parts desk personnel at various branches, coordinating market analysis and sales training to drive parts counter sales growth. Responsible for the establishment and achievement of incremental over-the-counter sales targets. Gather and act on market pricing intelligence, with the intent of positioning Ziegler products where they offer the most value to the customer while also maximizing margin for Ziegler. Maintain a high level of familiarity with Ziegler parts competitors in territory.

Shakopee, Minnesota, United States

Lead a team of 20+ associates that picks and pulls all stock orders for curbside or truck delivery. Provide resolution for all delivery issues. Reduced use of non-standard delivery vendors by 90% monthly. Exceeded regional results for all relevant metrics (order accuracy, wait time, NPS, order fulfillment span).

Southern Minnesota

Lead a team of 6 account managers responsible for maintaining high quality relationships with our valuable blood program leaders and sponsors.Participated and collaborated in production planning meetings to ensure that all goals were met or exceeded. District goals exceed 4 out of 6 months.

Washington, Dc

Collaborate with Operations leadership to develop user-friendly, actionable reports and dashboards. Participated as Subject Matter Expert for the system design team. Developed MS Excel based reports that increased operational efficiency from 88% to 93% by increasing the on-time start time. This improvement increased donor and volunteer satisfaction, while reducing cost per unit collected.Designed employee attrition rate trending report that gave leadership visibility to; trends in termination reason, rates by years of service, and potential cyclical trends that improved staff/hiring planning.Utilized Business Objects, SSRS, and MS Excel, to design and develop a hierarchical dashboard for the operations department

Maplewood, Mn

Assist customers in acquiring necessary product information and specifications based on customer requirements. Automated data acquisition process that saved 10 hours of work per 500 SKUs. Automation process ensured that team met major business initiative in last 60 days of the year. Drove an inventory reclamation project that saved the business $250,000 in inventory write-offs.

Maplewood, Mn

Responsible for managing the content for a key B2B e-commerce platform. Responsible for understanding the entire process of adding and removing SKUs with an exceptional level of attention to detail and caution, and achieving business merchandizing objectives within the site. Responsible for identifying and implementing process improvements and participate on corporate teams to advance B2B e-commerce overall. Liaise with product owners to plan and communicate product content & marketing campaign launches. Using gap analysis skills, partnered with Marketing Team to enhance product listings on the web stores. Subject Matter Expert for website maintenance application. Developed process automation to reduce upload file creation time from 1 hour per SKU to 5 minutes per 75 SKUs. Developed a full understanding of the data flow for the order processing system in under 30 days.

Eden Prairie, Mn

Utilizing vehicle operations data and telemetry, I collaborate with customers to identify cost savings opportunities by reducing vehicle idling, speeding, unauthorized use, and route optimization, as well as identify potential operating savings by moving driver/routes to electric vehicles. Assist marketing in identifying product enhancements and innovations.

Subject Matter Expert and Product Specialist for the Safety Solutions program. Conducted sales presentations for the Accident Services, Motor Vehicle Record, and Driver Safety Training products. Focused on customized solutions and strategies to reduce customer's accident rates and costs. Served as liaison to vendor for accident claims management regarding customer issues, system/program enhancements, and new customer implementations.Identified $3.5MM cost savings opportunity to a large customer.Served as Subject Matter Expert for team that created new reporting tool to quickly identify cost savings opportunities.Drove implementation of ten product system enhancements increasing customer satisfaction and reducing order-to-completion cycle time by 70%.Led LEAN project reducing handoffs by 50%, and decreasing wait time by 50%.

Bachelor Of Arts, Theater

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi OmegaAbsorb the liberal arts education it provided.

Accounting

Study accounting

Hs Diploma, College Prep

Activities and Societies: Drama club