Rachel A Brandt
Chanhassen,MN
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Manager
Sportradar
07.2022 - 10.2023
- Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations.
- Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
- Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
- Developed and maintained logistics workflows, procedures and reports.
- Met with project stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.
- Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
- Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
- Leveraged project management processes and tools to define and execute projects.
- Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders.
- Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
- Cultivated positive rapport with fellow employees to boost company morale and promote employee retention.
Business Program Manager
Best Buy Health
06.2021 - 07.2022
- Managing multiple programs and projects within Best Buy Health to support the overall initiative of the company
- Support multiple teams and their timelines along with workload for those teams to ensure they are given the best opportunity to succeed
- Provide weekly updates to leadership on the timelines and activities within our projects and programs to gain alignment and support to the work being done
- Ability to juggle different projects covering many different workstreams and efforts across the portfolio
- Work with Business teams and IT teams to help identify a schedule and rhythm around the work needing to be done.
Program Manager
Best Buy
06.2011 - 05.2021
- Managing multiple programs and projects within, Health to support the overall initiative of the company.
- Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations.
- Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
- Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
- Met with project stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.
IT Project Manager
Best Buy
- Managed multiple projects with differing timelines across multiple teams using Agile Methodology to gather requirements, prioritize backlog, execute development and testing, and deploy
- Managed financials for multimillion dollar projects by reporting on the time entry of resources and forecasting out remaining funds through the life of the project
- Assisted the Program Manager with presentations, communication, and status reporting to a larger audience within the project including executive level management
- Coordinated cross functional meetings with business leads on a weekly basis to get status updates within each team
- Reviewed and updated cross functional status reports to ensure all teams were represented and escalating issues as they arose
- Assisted with training material content review and distribution of materials along with logistics surrounding retail training
- Created Business Readiness plan for upcoming deployment, meeting with and coordinating activities between multiple work streams to ensure full delivery of functionality
- Responsible for action log along with follow up to ensure activities were completed in a timely manner
- Helped develop project plan for work streams within the project that did not have direct project management to help keep timelines in check.
Program Coordinator
Best Buy
- Manage delivery timelines, coordinating with teams both inside and outside of the Connectivity Business Group
- Manage resource allocation amongst internal and external projects for the team while keeping in line with current budget
- Orchestrated and delivered capital funding plan for fiscal year to internal review board for approval of spend and strategic planning
- Work directly with business sponsor and support teams to delivery key initiatives through product development
- Understanding and vetting extensive product requirements, organizing design, development and delivery teams while upholding the overall strategy of the business
- Weekly reporting of project status to executive level leaders.
Project Coordinator
Best Buy
- Schedule and facilitate multiple meetings on a daily basis
- Manage and maintain backlog of work for the team, assisting with set up of tasks and time entry to ensure project timelines remained intact
- Weekly time reports to present to Program Manager to ensure proper financial reporting to executive level management
- Owned and maintained project management program by developing relationship with conducting trainings
Network Services Project Manager
ADP
07.2010 - 05.2011
- Manager over 80 projects at one time with varying timelines
- Create communication with Auto Dealership clients, external service providers, onsite and offsite engineers and internal departments within ADP
- Acquire technical information to distribute detailed project information amongst team members and complete a successful install within the timeline scheduled.
Associate Client Account Executive
Lawson Software
02.2010 - 05.2010
- Responsible for creating and sending out marketing emails to current Lawson clients to set up Executive Briefing Sessions with Regional Sales Managers
- Provide sales support to clients including delivering licenses keys, login information and current system updates
- Organized weekly sales calls with Regional Sales Manager and all of the Western Region Sales Team to discuss current customer initiatives.
Business Development Manager
Analysts International
05.2006 - 12.2009
- Organize project information within our CRM tool and provide weekly reporting to Practice Director and 6 other Executive Staff members
- Responsible for monthly marketing email content (including articles, reminders, graphics, training information) which is sent to all consultants and clients
- Follow up with all contacts who respond to our website
- Represent Analysts International and Lawson at Regional User Group Meetings in MN, ME, CA and CUE (Customer User Exchange) in CA
- Solely responsible for all marketing surrounding the CUE event including Analysts/Lawson booth/table display, pre-event communication, post event communication, and client / consultant appreciation parties
- Work with multiple vendors to solicit bids and obtain giveaways and prizes for conferences
- Planned consultant appreciation parties for over 100 people including obtaining party space, pre-event communications, catering and beverages.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Communications, Marketing
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA12.2005
Skills
- Detail Oriented
- Team Leadership and Direction
- Process Improvement
- Flexible and Adaptable
- MS Office Applications
- Attention to Detail
- Cross Functional Team Builder
- Information Protection / Data Classification
- Remote Team Management
- Agile Projects
- Project Lifecycle
- Work Planning and Prioritization
Volunteer
PTO President, Bluff Creek Elementary
Chanhassen, MN
08/2020 - Present
PTO Secretary, Bluff Creek Elementary
Chanhassen, MN
08/2017 - 08/2020
Timeline
Program Manager
Sportradar
07.2022 - 10.2023
Business Program Manager
Best Buy Health
06.2021 - 07.2022
Program Manager
Best Buy
06.2011 - 05.2021
Network Services Project Manager
ADP
07.2010 - 05.2011
Associate Client Account Executive
Lawson Software
02.2010 - 05.2010
Business Development Manager
Analysts International
05.2006 - 12.2009
IT Project Manager
Best Buy
Program Coordinator
Best Buy
Project Coordinator
Best Buy
Bachelor of Arts - Communications, Marketing
University of Northern Iowa
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