Sarah Ray Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Thought Ensemble, a Pariveda Company, is a strategy and management consulting firm focused on helping our clients achieve significant business transformation. In December 2021, Thought Ensemble formally joined Pariveda, a leading consulting firm that delivers strategy and technology solutions.Together, we provide a more holistic set of capabilities to our clients who need to solve business problems and meet the challenges they face with sound business and organizational strategy, robust technology, and strategic program and change enablement to transform their organizations.Change is inevitable. Transformation is intentional.™

Stamford, Ct, Us

Stamford, Ct, Us

Stamford, Ct, Us

Stamford, Ct, Us

Responsible for aligning Gartner Events with clients' current initiatives, including Fortune 500 Global Companies. Working closely with CIOs, Senior IT Executives and IT Professionals to understand their mission critical key initiatives and make recommendations that provides significant ROI. Progressed from Events Specialist to Global Enterprise CSE to Business Development CSE If you’d like to discover how Gartner events can provide you the information necessary to advance your strategies, contact sarah.ray@gartner.comSpecialties: Business Intelligence, Information Management, Analytics, Master Data Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Digital Workplace, Applications, Development, Portfolio Management, Infrastructure, Operations, Security, Risk Management, Disaster Recovery, Negotiations, Data Center, Sourcing, Vendor Relations, Peer networking, Asset Management, Procurement, Innovation, Thought Leadership, Best Practices, Case Studies, Benchmarks, Supply Chain, Digital Marketing, Analyst Relations, Strategic Planning, Identity & Access Management See less

Purchase, New York, Us

As a District Manager for Frito Lay, Inc., I am responsible for coaching and mentoring a team of 19 front-line employees. In this role, I am in charge of staffing and training new individuals, growing capability of experienced employees, conflict resolution and management, strategic business planning and execution, managing efficiencies and expenses, and safety compliance to ensure each team member achieves sales targets, while maintaining perfect business partner standards. In addition, I manage a yearly sales volume of $13.5 million across 23 accounts in The Frito Lay’s National Headquarters' District. Through customer service and sales, I am able to develop individualized business strategies for each of these accounts, in a growing market, while analyzing share and competitive advantages to sustain revenue growth and profitability for Frito Lay.Subject Matter Expert | Rewards and RecognitionI cultivated a culture of appreciation for the hard work from our front-line employees in order to increase moral and organizational health. I recognized the efforts of those that achieved outstanding performance results, while coaching those to become the best that they could be in their role. My duty was to analyze the zone's data monthly in order to display the highest achievers, along with leading and coordinating with committee members and front-line employees to recognize their peers. This role gave me the opportunity to bring to light the accomplishments of new and tenured employees in order to foster a competitive environment to be the best.Subject Matter Expert | KrogerI work closely with the Kroger Key Account Manager and the Region Board Team to generate revenue growth for our customer through key performance measures. In these meetings, I assist in analyzing market share, forecasting growth, and planning volume shipments. I organize schematic compliance, key event and promotional timelines, zone execution of these promotions, and customer expectations.

Purchase, New York, Us

Subject Matter Expert | SafetyIn this role, I am responsible for the safety culture of the 200 employees in the zone. I am in charge of planning and hosting quarterly safety minded events for employees and families, administering quarterly truck checks, coordinating monthly safety meetings - including lining the agendas and giving the meetings - designing monthly safety presentations and boards, communicating weekly safety topics, and executing incident work withs with team members when applicable. I keep track of our zone's performance, analyze data of our current incidents, and communicate these findings to the zone. In addition, I am the liaison between the zone and the region, where I report the zone's safety data and submit tactical plans in order to improve and prevent future incidents. Through these efforts, I was able to improve our safety incidents from a trend of five incidents a month to two incidents a month.

Ms, Organization Effectiveness And Talent Strategies

Bsba, Marketing And Economics