Taylor Watson Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

• Spearheads strategic direction of tools to identify and resolve issues with items in season to maximize customer experience and company profitability; Earned top business priority ranking for the project from executive.
• Establishes clear business priorities for daily merchandising reporting to product, engineering, and design partners; Decommissioned outdated reporting and delivered new, omnichannel report in a single quarter, earning.
• Streamlines direction for ad hoc reporting workstream to reduce duplication of efforts from hosting 3 tool platforms with 97% overlap to a single tool platform
• Develops enhanced, structured business prioritization model to standardize benchmarking of backlog items and drive objectivity in ranking
• Optimizes training process to enhance effectiveness and timeliness of training materials while minimizing rework as iterative features are deployed bi-weekly

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Developed tracking tools to monitor performance of critical pricing strategy; Identified and mitigated large annual profit risk after auditing pricing strategy and implementing new data driven, automated pricing process
• Leveraged design thinking experience to lead a cross-functional team in tackling the problem of availability from a customer focused lens; Isolated and communicated 5 asks to ensure surety of supply to EVP
• Partnered with senior directors to establish forum across Food merchandising team that targeted 30 associates’ efforts on 9 cultivated workstreams tackling high priority enabler and strategy driven projects over 4 months
• Rationalized department reporting to eliminate manual, weekend work for users; Created a tool that reallocated the time of 450 users from pulling and validating data to analyzing and actioning insights
• Developed suite of tools leveraging Alteryx and Tableau to eliminate blind spots in availability metrics for replenishment team; Detected and prioritized impactful sales opportunity
• Supported peer associate’s onboarding and development through cultivating a comprehensive training plan and establishing weekly connections to provide guidance, feedback, and development opportunities

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

• Leveraged relationships with key merchants to develop exception reporting on margin trend abnormalities; Identified incremental annual profit opportunity across SBU
• Automated manual market share reporting process at the beginning of COVID to provide crucial insights to EVPs to capture fair share of allocation; Saved 1 full-time resource and provided more robust, timely, and.
• Sought out opportunities to develop Walmart’s talent pipeline by mentoring 22 MBA interns in Merchandising
• Constructed immersive learning experience for the Walmart Girls Who Code program including a pivot to a virtual workshop environment

Chicago, Illinois

• Developed advanced time series forecasting models to predict demand for a $1.5 billion account; improved forecast accuracy by 33%
• Produced 5 promotional videos utilized to advertise the analytics team’s purpose and mission

Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Mentored 2 team leads and 5 advisors; utilized weekly meetings and activity lists to achieve end goal of radically affecting truck driver retention and online sensory experience
• Served as sole thought leader for supply chain innovation concepts; published 1 article, curated 3 monthly newsletters, and expanded knowledge base

Fayetteville, AR

• Led officer meetings and professional development seminars available to 46 organization members to enhance the collegiate experience of supply chain students, specifically females
• Spearheaded change among 4 supply chain student organizations to form 2, focused organizations resulting in a 60% increase in overall membership and 3 new financial sponsors

Houston, Texas

• Analyzed and proposed cloud strategy for $30 million AspenTech software contract; facilitated business
• Created Tableau software usage dashboards to reduce spend on AspenTech software
• Rationalized use of 35 data flow interfaces down to 5 automated interfaces for a critical refining application through intensive demonstrations and field research

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Tutored 1-on-1 and small and large groups for Data Analysis periodically

Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Managed communications with members and directed the future of the organization to increase member engagement

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Headed a team of 15 Data Analysis SI Leaders to improve communications between SI leaders and program coordinators and performance of the team as a whole

Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Led study sessions for up to 100 Data Analysis students per week to improve student grades by 1 letter grade, on average

Bartlesville, OK

• Executed and debugged 170 automated tests using ALM software in preparation for annual SAP upgrade to ensure no gaps in software usage
• Prepared and delivered 45-minute capstone presentation boosting graphic design and presentation skills

Bartlesville, OK

• Provided organizational skills and interacted with the public while observing various business roles
• Developed documentation and video training materials to enforce new office policies and to streamline the business

Fayetteville, Arkansas

• Tutored 8 one hour sessions per week of business and non-business courses

Bartlesville, OK

• Tutored sisters aged 11 and 13; resulted in both receiving “all A’s” for the first time
• Mentored preteen girl challenged with brain tumor; helped her cope with teasing in school and personal development

Bartlesville, OK

• Managed small business employees, social media, and daily operations

Bartlesville, OK

• Learned customer service through being a cashier
• Stocked groceries; learned how to count and stock inventories

Master Of Science In Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Information Systems - Business Analytics And Supply Chain Management - Retail

Activities and Societies: Student Alumni Association, Student Ambassador, Leadership Walton, Walton Honors College, Women Impacting Supply.

Honors Microeconomics And Art History

5 week study abroad program through the University of Arkansas in Rome, Italy; May - July 2016