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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Greater St. Louis

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

Lead the design and implementation of a global enterprise data hub as well as execute global data utilization and stewardship standards. Charged with consolidating data from 56 separate ERP instances and over a dozen CRM instances into a single enterprise data platform. Supervised more than 100 direct and indirect reports. • Lead data architecture design, development and implementation of the enterprise data hub to enable a central data model that is consumed by all business units across 90 companies and more than a dozen countries.• Restructured global data and reporting teams as well as integrating 5 technology partners to drive efficiency and reduce costs.• Implemented data standards to bring the enterprise in compliance with global data protection and privacy regulations

Greater St. Louis Area

Direct the implementation of line of business reporting and analytic solutions to provide insight into manufacturing, procurement, finance, and sales units. Lead a global team consisting of 8 analysts and 15 developers to define and implement actionable KPI’s as well as analytical tools allowing for self-service BI.• Lead the execution of a global enterprise wide BI strategy to bring consistent reporting across 12 divisions comprised of over 90 companies.• Deployed Power BI as the standard reporting and analytics tool. Established standards, governance and training for the organization.• Key focus on database performance tuning, implementation of best practices, design pattern and coding techniques for optimal performance.

Manage a team of business analysts that use business data and statistical methods to provide insight into business performance and suggest area for and methods of improving operations. Implemented analytical approaches and methodologies and assisted in the interpretation of results. Collected and analyzed external market data to provide benchmarks for comparison purposes. Presented reports to management for use in decision making and strategic planning.• Designed, constructed, and implemented new sales reporting database and services• Managed creation and roll out of Hunter's first executive sales dashboard and web based reporting tools• Manage project delivery teams comprised of analysts and developers across the full spectrum of the software solution life cycle for projects

Responsible for leading the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications. Identified, researched, and resolved technical problems. Ensured that the use of business intelligence applications enhanced business decision making capabilities. • Gathered and analyzed business end user data and identified solutions strategies for report requirements• Collaborated with corporate executives to identify needed business intelligence systems and implementation strategies

Identified markets, customers, competitive threats, and growth opportunities. Defined standard analysis practices and when necessary constructed the tools and data sets to perform analysis and reporting. Prepared marketing strategies and programs for multiple product lines. Evaluated product performance to help develop and update company goals and objectives. Advised senior management on any relevant product concerns. Recommended changes to current product development based on market research and new trends.

Aggressively represented a portfolio of ten separate hand tool companies and their products against stiff competition to Ace, True Value, and Do It Best retail locations across two states. Worked with store management and owners to increase ROI through advertising, merchandising, inventory control, employee training and the use of effective promotions and cross selling.

Marketed premium and non premium branded tobacco products in 150 independent and national account locations through the use of corporate advertising materials and negotiating contracts for product placement. Achieved all sales goals by properly merchandising products, strategically placing advertising, controlling inventories, and implementing promotional products and pricing.