KRIS FRANKS
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Strategic analytics leader with over a decade of experience driving data transformation across Fortune 500 companies. Proven success in building high-performing teams, implementing enterprise-wide data platforms, and translating insights into business impact.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director, Data Product
NIKE INC.
01.2021 - Current
- Led the global transformation of purchasing data reporting from legacy ERP systems to SAP, enhancing currency hedging accuracy and achieving $30M in tariff and duty savings
- Spearheaded development of data asset platforms to automate calculation of global materials costing KPIs, powering a $92M margin savings offense for footwear
- Transformed landscape for demand planning reporting with multi-year data platform strategy, moving from manual excel manipulation to automated brand revenue KPI walks that have increased full price realization by 50 basis points
Senior Manager, Strategy & Analytics-Data Products
WALMART
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Partnered with senior leadership to lead audit of business processes resulting in cross enterprise technology portfolio priorities and 30% reduction in role overutilization
- As technical lead for data algorithms, ensured delivery of one stop shop root cause application with data scientists and data engineering team resulting in actionable recommendations for 90% of low retail KPIs
- Owning product roadmap, technical requirements, release schedules, and cross functional stakeholder story generation for forecasting dashboard that has surpassed customer success metrics and improved post-Covid retail recovery by 30%
Sr. Product Manager Intern-Baby Team
AMAZON
06.2018 - 08.2018
- Conducted a gap analysis and discovered a $1.2B opportunity in growing share of wallet for parents of 0-5 year olds currently shopping on Amazon
- Developed and launched onsite customer targeting experiments with machine learning team that pulled purchases forward by 3 months, generated a 9% increase in sales, and a 12x enhancement to CTR
Category Development Manager-Analytics
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Led cross-functional team to construct joint value proposition between Procter & Gamble and Lowe's Home improvement to create $5 million in new sales for Swiffer Duster
- Created strategy for new air care shopping experience at Lowe's based on shopper research and marketplace analytics resulting in $7 million dollars in new sales, doubled share and lead aisle position for P&G products
- Created previously nonexistent internal analytics to track promotion and display ROI for store groups enabling sales team to hit record +16% quarter during Lowe's peak season
- Implemented a new critical path schedule for third party store labor company resulting in 20% improvement in display execution and averted $2 million sales loss risk to budget
- Secured and headed monthly business reviews with Lowe's senior merchants to track progress on growth targets resulting in 6,9,and 12 month strategies for each P&G brand at Lowe's
Senior Financial Analyst
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
01.2015 - 12.2015
- Created revenue tracking analytics to monitor the growth of packages through competitive benchmarking, resulting in enhanced market targeting
Mathematical Statistician
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
01.2013 - 12.2014
- Piloted performance metric monitoring of revenue and costing statistical data collection systems for Postal geographic areas resulting in 100% on time compliance
- Customized analytics queries resulting in mail volume variance reports summarized and communicated to C-Suite
Education
Master of Business Administration -
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics
University of Miami
Miami, FL05.2013
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Agile Product Management
Leadership And Strategy
- Global People Management
- Cross-functional Alignment
- KPI Development
- Agile Product Management
- Executive Communication
- Roadmap Creation
Analytical Tools
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- SQL Proficient
- Cloud Data Platforms
Timeline
Director, Data Product
NIKE INC.
01.2021 - Current
Senior Manager, Strategy & Analytics-Data Products
WALMART
01.2019 - 01.2021
Sr. Product Manager Intern-Baby Team
AMAZON
06.2018 - 08.2018
Category Development Manager-Analytics
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
01.2015 - 01.2017
Senior Financial Analyst
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
01.2015 - 12.2015
Mathematical Statistician
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
01.2013 - 12.2014
Master of Business Administration -
University of Michigan
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics
University of Miami
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