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Cloquet, Minnesota

K1 Sportswear, established in 1987, is the leading manufacturer of hockey uniforms in the United States. K1 uses the most advanced pattern making, cutting, sewing and printing technologies to produce high quality products at five manufacturing and warehouse facilities in Minnesota, and leverages long term strategic partnerships in both Canada and Asia.K1.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

RedBrick Health, acquired by Virgin Pulse, reinvigorates health and wellness. The distinctive consumer experience spans high tech and high touch and is driven by powerful business intelligence and deep clinical and behavioral insight. The result is better engagement and stronger returns on everyone’s investment in health.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Recognized for developing comprehensive implementation of master plan for Target’s largest store opening in history, including 124 stores launched in five separate waves spanning across 11 different opening weeks in.
• Developed and implemented brand new technology infrastructure, unique to the Canadian business. This included creating over 10 million data fields within a matter of months, integrating hundreds of 3rd party support.
• Recruited, trained, and on-boarded 20,000 new team members across 10 provinces, including personally interviewing over 200 executive candidates.
• Responsible for all functional areas of the business including Merchandising, Marketing, Finance, Stores, Supply Chain, Human Resources, External Relations, and Legal.
• Delivered $1.3 billion in sales (first year), and on track to deliver $2 billion in sales for second year.
• Recognized for marketing Target Canada through local, regional, and national speaking engagements, with audiences ranging from 300 to 14,000.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Recognized for leading team of 400 across areas in Business Intelligence & Analytics, Strategic Pricing, Process and Systems Development, Business Partnerships & Negotiations.
• Built plan delivering $1 billion dollars in gross margin savings (by 2013), including $145 million (in 2010). Met plan through strategic approaches including strategic pricing strategies and strong merchant vendor.
• Led creating new Merchandising & Marketing Business Intelligence strategy for corporation. This included launching Long Range Planning process, creating growth strategies for merchandising pyramid and division, while.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for $4.5 billion in annual sales (with full P&L responsibility) across two divisions, while driving profit dollars over goal for each during a significant economic downturn.
• Drove market share increases in Toys and Sporting Goods while consistently outpacing industry growth.
• Recognized for leveraging comprehensive customer insights research by re-merchandising Toys floor plan, grouping categories by how customers shopped. This made it easier for our customers to shop, as demonstrated by.
• Launched comprehensive Toys floor plan relay with first focal fixture presentation, driving double digit sales increases, in a very mature business.
• Sporting Goods market specific adjacency relay, driving significant incremental sales within the first year.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed creative methods for managing $400 million in inventory budget, delivering lowest inventory levels in previous five years.
• Recognized for driving innovative approaches (to secondary space replenishment) realizing a 15% reduction in backroom inventory rate.
• Drove Six Sigma instocks initiative, providing visibility to gap between sales floor and system instocks. Led companywide launch of “Smart Pulls” system, delivering 170 basis-point improvement in food instocks.
• Drove efficient set and replenishment strategies, delivering lowest unproductive inventory for division in two-year period.
• Delivered successful merchandise transition, delivering highest transition scores in company.
• Created team culture of developing/retaining talent at all levels while being recognized with a 100% favorable rating on leadership upward feedback.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area