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RACHEL MEEKER

RACHEL MEEKER

Cumming,GA

Summary

Seeking a position as… DIRECTOR OF ANALYTICS


TRANSLATING ANALYSES INTO ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS, DRIVING BUSINESS ENABLEMENT


Strategic business partner and visionary leader of transformative solutions that build enterprise capabilities via analytic BI dashboard storytelling and ROI frameworks embraced organization wide as the playbook for quality business intelligence. Mentors and develops teams to points of independence that enable the business to scale. Bridges the cultural gap in KPI design and fosters organizational changes through collaborative, solutions-based, multi-year analytics roadmaps.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, Multi-Channel Marketing Analytics

Fiserv
02.2022 - 04.2024
  • Directs a comprehensive business competitive intelligence strategy, designing innovative, first-of-its-kind performance reporting via Power BI and automation. This approach has yielded enhanced visibility into performance metrics, facilitating enterprise-level goal setting and driving strategic initiatives.
  • Delivered ROI analysis for sales pipelines exceeding $100 million, along with KPI metrics for campaign engagement. These insights informed business strategy and guided the setting of future objectives in decision-making.
  • Worked closely with organizational leaders & stakeholders to enhance operational processes, leveraging automation to streamline and transform data and analytics workflows. Delivered on-time actionable business insights aligned with strategic goals, driving informed decision-making across the organization.
  • Led the development and implementation of a robust and automated reporting process, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making across the organization. Pioneered the creation of a comprehensive library of dashboards, seamlessly integrating with eCRM (Salesforce) and Adobe Analytics. These initiatives empower on-demand reporting and storytelling, driving continual enhancement in business outcomes over time.
  • Led data enrichment projects by integrating diverse data sources, performing data cleansing, and enforcing best practices to ensure data governance and compliance, which guided the development of the analytics roadmap.
  • Partnered with leadership to hire and onboard new talent. Managed and mentored the team to have an eye for applying data visualization best practices to high-quality reporting products.

Senior Data Analyst - Procurement & Supply Chain

Assurant & Cox Automotive
04.2015 - 02.2022
  • Translates Analytics & Reporting insights to LOBs/lines of business, influencing long-term decisions, shaping procurement strategy, and ensuring ROI of project spend
  • Developed innovative analytic reporting solution and dashboard to track process and project KPIs, pipelines, and savings, driving achievement of key deliverables.
  • Viewed as the “Data Resource” among the peer groups, balancing business, and data acuity to guide the team on how to apply data and insights, bringing fresh perspectives on data requirements and complex reporting initiatives
  • Automated the “Master Data Hub,” decreasing cycle time for synthesizing daily, monthly, and quarterly operational reporting roll-up
  • Stewarded the “Data Enrichment” process and delivered key, succinct insights and recommendations for consolidating large data sets and achieving data integrity across disparate IT systems
  • Orchestrated a BI and analytics dashboard and reporting strategy that infused the power of data into strategic perspectives to drive category values and VOC/voice of the customer insight for sales and market expansion.
  • Oversaw Supply Chain Operations, spend category optimization, cost rationalization, competitive pricing, and sourcing in concert with RFx and Auction analytics for IT, Inventory, and Indirect category teams.
  • Realized a 15% savings on IT category computer peripherals and 5% cost avoidance through analytics around supplier review, selection, and final award.
  • Analyzed and delivered commentary to evaluate supplier performance, risks, and capabilities for RFQ/bidding events, scorecard reporting, and profitable sourcing practices.
  • Project managed and collaborated with the Finance & Accounting team on savings tracking. Technical Tools Administrator for analytics and reporting initiatives that transformed intelligence into product lifecycles, narratives, channel segmentation strategies, and high-value business processes.
  • Influenced a 30% OpEx savings on a total of $360 million spent by building the LRP reporting process with automated features to enable “what-if-payment scenarios” for Operational expenses.
  • Engaged with matrix teams as an SME/subject matter expert in eagerly handling ad-hoc projects and sharing lessons learned across the value stream.
  • Collaborated and coordinated with stakeholders and IT on implementations, process procedures, and resolving root causes for system errors. Held an SME role in technology tools management.

Supply Chain Analyst

Avanos Medical & J.M. Huber Corporation
  • Brought rigor and discipline to Supply Chain Planning by standardizing analytics processes and improving performance tracking via a regular cadence of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports
  • Built SharePoint functionality and integrated Business Objects for in-depth vendor reporting
  • Acted as an expert providing input on the annual forecasting process, preparing procurement budgets, and overseeing Ariba Spend Management
  • Simplified CapEx and monthly MRO roll-up and brought value to each SBU via the design of a dashboard for monitoring logistics late shipping
  • Liaised with internal communities globally on procurement tools and processes that helped close performance gaps, cut costs, and improve services.

International Channel Manager - Sales Operation

NETSUPPORT INC.
05.2014 - 02.2015

Customer Support & Channel Operations Leader

ARIBA, an SAP COMPANY
08.2007 - 02.2014

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Global Operations and Supply Chain Management

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH
09.2016

Bachelor's degree - finance

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
2001

Skills

  • Data Analytics
  • Talent Development
  • Data Transformation, Innovation & Governance
  • Reporting Automations
  • Strategic Planning
  • Operations Planning
  • Budget Oversight
  • Market Analysis
  • Organizational improvement
  • Documentation And Best Practice
  • Cross-Functional Communication
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Troubleshooting and problem resolution
  • Power BI and Tableau Dashboard
  • Dax and SQL coding

Accomplishments

    Key Qualifications

  • Reporting Trends, Business Performance Impact
  • Data Transformation, Innovation & Governance
  • Monitoring Market Trends & Forecasting, & Conducting Competitive Analysis
  • Power BI Data Automation and Coding and Dashboard
  • Collaborative Influencer, Translating Bold Visions
  • Talent Development, Building Future Leaders

Timeline

Senior Manager, Multi-Channel Marketing Analytics

Fiserv
02.2022 - 04.2024

Senior Data Analyst - Procurement & Supply Chain

Assurant & Cox Automotive
04.2015 - 02.2022

International Channel Manager - Sales Operation

NETSUPPORT INC.
05.2014 - 02.2015

Customer Support & Channel Operations Leader

ARIBA, an SAP COMPANY
08.2007 - 02.2014

Supply Chain Analyst

Avanos Medical & J.M. Huber Corporation

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Global Operations and Supply Chain Management

Southern New Hampshire University

Bachelor's degree - finance

Georgia State University

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