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Ben Drescher

Brooklyn,NY

Summary

Dynamic strategy and operations leader with a proven track record in successfully launching and scaling new high-growth initiatives within established businesses. Demonstrated expertise in managing diverse stakeholders across sales, product, legal, and engineering teams to drive complex projects and achieve expanded customer reach and consistent revenue growth. Skilled at aligning cross-functional partners and clients through data-driven insights, strategic reporting, and collaborative goal-setting to optimize business performance and consistently surpass quarterly targets.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Strategy and Operations - Associate Manager

DoorDash
04.2023 - Current
  • Launched Alcohol Self Delivery business via coordination across sales, product, legal and engineering, providing 4 million customers with access to compliant alcohol delivery, and beat quarterly revenue goals by +7% in 3 consecutive quarters
  • Served as product operations lead for 4 self delivery product enhancements across DoorDash, including live order tracking for customers and an integrated fleet management solution for merchants drivers
  • Defined the key OKRs for the alcohol business and built 6 Sigma reporting dashboards for strategy, product, and engineering leadership to track daily performance metrics across alcohol category sales on the platform
  • Led quarterly golden market initiatives to improve store level performance, decreasing cancel rate by 2% (absolute) and driving 5% GMV growth, eventually scaling learnings across the business and sharing playbook to other S&O teams within New Verticals
  • Created pricing and fee strategy for liquor store business via A/B customer testing to drive GMV and profitability, resulting in a 2.2% relative lift in subtotals per order
  • Created monthly 3rd party alcohol competitive share analysis for New Verticals leadership which was used for company strategy to increase market share after sunset of largest 3rd party alcohol competitor
  • Led quarterly initiative prioritization and goaling for 25 person liquor store account management team that oversaw 3,000 merchants, contributing to +5% beats to quarterly revenue goals.

Strategy Consultant

Deloitte Consulting
07.2018 - 04.2022
  • Co-Created a 4 year digital payment strategy roadmap with client SME and cross functional partners for a large hospitality client that was a pillar of a broader $300M digital transformation
  • Developed a digital transformation business case and roadmap to drive strategic planning decisions over a 3-year period that would lead to $258M in net-new revenue
  • Led cross functional team of 7 people, including outsourced development resources and managed relationships with clients across the program office to complete multiple agile software releases that improved existing analytics capabilities and provided program office with insights across their organization.

Education

Bachelor of Science: Industrial and Systems Engineering -

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
12.2017

Skills

  • Growth Strategy
  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Product Operations Management
  • Data Analysis and SQL proficiency
  • Strategic Planning and OKR development
  • Pricing and Revenue Strategy
  • Project Management and Initiative Prioritization
  • Performance Metrics Tracking and Reporting

Timeline

Strategy and Operations - Associate Manager

DoorDash
04.2023 - Current

Strategy Consultant

Deloitte Consulting
07.2018 - 04.2022

Bachelor of Science: Industrial and Systems Engineering -

University of Florida

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