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Summary
This Toy Marketing and Brand Management consultant is a dynamic product commercialization leader with a 10 year proven track record of increasing revenue and market share for mid-sized organizations looking for exponential growth. She is known for driving results through collaboration with stakeholders at all levels. She successfully translates market and consumer insights analysis, customer data, and business objectives into strategic, actionable plans. Her recent experience is in complete product life cycle oversight for two toy companies; specifically in building product commercialization plans, pricing strategy and sales support, and go-to-market planning for new launches.
Highlights
- 10+ years of experience
- PIM management expertise
- Global retail (digital and B&M) experience
- Process and results focused
- P&L Ownership
- Data-driven decision making
Relevant Accomplishments
- Presented detailed competitive analysis, financial metrics, and consumer insights to senior management to garner support and investment to enter highly competitive pre-school toy category; a $10M incremental opportunity for the Baby Einstein brand.
- Leveraged market data and in-depth P&L analysis to develop pricing structures that maximize profitability while remaining market competitive; realizing $4.5M in sales over 45 days during the 2023 holiday season for Hearthsong Toys.
- Successfully sold in a $7M Baby Einstein toy program at the world’s largest mass retailer; placed a collection of 5 SKUs in the baby toy aisle along with a 2022 holiday season end cap.
- Replaced a top-selling product from a major toy brand at a major US retailer with a Baby Einstein offering through thorough analysis of drivers of market performance and consumer need; resulting in additional placements in major mass and global retailers.
- Developed and currently maintain strong relationships with specialty retailers through Diverse reps, Atlanta’s America’s Mart, and independent retailers.
- Developed and implemented packaging and marketing briefs, communication plans, and complete go-to-market documentation and processes, fostering accountability across key functions, clarity in product positioning, and high probability of launch success.
- Successfully driven 100+ product development projects through an innovation pipeline by demonstrating exceptional cross functional leadership, project management, and setting robust KPI hurdles.
Roles
- Senior Product Manager
- Senior Category Manager (Baby Einstein, Bright Starts, Ingenuity Toys
- Brand Manager (Baby Einstein Toys)
- Senior Brand Manager, Innovation
- Senior Manager, Innovation
- Manager, Innovation
- Various Marketing Roles: Pizza Hut, UCI Athletics, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Angels
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