Seth Thomsen
Chicago,IL
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
Target
Minneapolis, MN
07.2023 - Current
- Product Manager with functional expertise across domestic purchasing capabilities.
- Led cross-functional teams in the development and release of three truckload optimization capabilities that project to save the company ~$40M.
- Manage backlog prioritization to current global supply chain strategy for quarterly planning.
- Collaborate with engineering and project teams to define product roadmaps, features, and go-to-market strategies.
Senior Inventory Intelligence Manager
Target
Minneapolis, MN
05.2021 - 06.2023
- Manage relationship between Product Managers, Process teams and users to implement new tech capabilities, systems and processes while garnering valuable user feedback.
- Influence prioritization of feedback requests from end users in collaboration with Product Managers to influence sprint prioritization and OKR planning.
- Drove activation of 22 product departments/19M item-locs/1,000+ end users across the enterprise onto modern purchasing capabilities.
- Directed discovery sessions for the modernization of domestic purchasing, truckload optimization purchasing, and import purchasing to inform needed process solutions and product capability developments.
- Accepted into competitive Product Management Fellowship Program where I identified and drove forward a distribution center optimization solution for WMS that will save the company ~$5M per year.
Inventory Analyst
Target
Minneapolis, MN
09.2018 - 04.2021
- Inventory Management lead for 25 global suppliers, 1280 SKUs and $343M in annual sales
- Improved inventory health by creating inventory allocation, ordering and forecasting processes.
- Reduced store out-of-stock inventory from 32% to 6% year over year on 20% less inventory.
- Decreased Unproductive Inventory (UPI) from 20% to 2%.
- Awarded Inventory Analyst of the Quarter for implementing inventory management strategies to mitigate COVID-19 supply chain issues effecting Home categories.
Education
Master of Science - Supply Chain Management
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago02-2024
Bachelor of Arts - Supply Chain Management
Michigan State University
East Lansing05-2018
Skills
- Leadership
- Effective Communication
- Product Management
- Process Improvement
- Inventory Management
- Supplier Management
- Data Analytics
- Agile Strategy
- SQL, R-programming
- Jira, Confluence
Timeline
Product Manager
Target
07.2023 - Current
Senior Inventory Intelligence Manager
Target
05.2021 - 06.2023
Inventory Analyst
Target
09.2018 - 04.2021
Master of Science - Supply Chain Management
Loyola University Chicago
Bachelor of Arts - Supply Chain Management
Michigan State University
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