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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

• Managed and oversaw strategic initiatives and complex projects as the primary lead in the Chief of Staff office to the CEO. • Designed and implemented detailed execution plans, including project objectives, success factors and risks.• Facilitated cross-functional team meetings to provide project alignment, status and to resolve any potential roadblocks or challenges.• Owned and facilitated bi-weekly executive leadership meetings. Responsible for content, agendas and follow-up items based on meeting discussions. Acted as confidential thought partner to executives and presenters.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

• Partnered with the executive team and key leaders across strategy, product, IT/Engineering, marketing, sales, finance, HR and customer care to deliver complex projects by identifying key deliverables, setting clear milestones, resolving cross-functional dependencies and driving company-wide alignment.• Facilitated solution strategy discussions by gathering and analyzing data from core teams, presenting findings to key stakeholders and providing recommendations based on insights presented.• Supported operating planning process with leadership teams to identify and quantify company objectives.• Owned and facilitated senior leadership meetings to provide status, successes, risks and challenges of critical initiatives. Created and presented ongoing KPI status reports to senior leadership and board of directors.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Drove vision and strategic direction for Global Procurement function. Oversaw management and negotiations with global third-party vendors, including hardware, software and contract resources. Oversaw Global Procurement team to obtain favorable financial and business terms with third-party vendors. • Developed and implemented business case process to obtain management approval for internal and external investment requests. • Partnered with IT leadership teams to support transition to public cloud hosting solutions and to provide flexibility in IT third-party cost structure. • Managed ~14 building leases in 10 countries and migrated from multi-year office leases to flexible space solutions. Provided leadership to team of onsite office managers.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Evolved vendor relationships to support company ownership transition from public to private. Drove multiple RFP processes to reduce hardware, software and contractor expenses, including capital purchases to upgrade data center hardware and other large-scale investments. Created processes to evaluate and onboard new vendors, including implementing security and financial qualification assessments to evaluate vendor quality and risk.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Expanded and led Global Procurement team to consolidate vendor negotiations and management across all teams globally. Developed and implemented processes to provide insight into vendor spending trends to drive expense reduction planning. Acted as subject matter expert for SAP ERP procurement software.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Drove global IT vendor negotiations, including all new hardware purchases, physical data center leases, software and contractor negotiations. Created solid partnerships with IT leaders to streamline vendors and reduce expenses.

New York, Ny, Us

Drove ownership of technology solutions, including setting and implementing product strategies, cost and revenue management and vendor negotiations/management. Oversaw internal and external technology solutions for company-owned and independent franchise travel agencies.

New York, Ny, Us

Created and implemented purchasing processes with all third-party vendors. Managed offering of all technology products leveraged by company-owned and franchise travel agencies. Led team of technology subject matter experts.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Leadership and ownership of technology vendors, products and services offered to Carlson’s company-owned and franchise travel agencies. Managed team of subject matter experts to sell, onboard and support product portfolio.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Developed strategy for and subsequently created new department to oversee growing technology initiatives and vendors for franchise division. Acted as subject matter expert for internal and external technology leveraged by travel agency customers.