Cynthia Diekhans

425-***-****

ad30ec@r.postjobfree.com

Greater Seattle Area

Summary:

Seasoned Project Manager with a background in facilitating international procurement, marketing campaigns and projects for websites, retail, and print. Outstanding organizational, time management, planning and problem-solving.

Skills:

Website marketing management

Integrated marketing across business channels

Promotions and campaign manager

International procurement

Program management

Vendor negotiation

Supply chain management

Contract negotiation

Experience:

Microsoft

July 2023- Current

Project Manager—X box

Establish effective relationship with key partners and internal business stakeholders

Managing internal working events to ensure partnership optimization

Collaborating across business lines with internal and external teams to manage calendar

Publish, communicate and maintain product roadmaps

Provide transparency to and set expectations with team members

Amazon

September 2022- May 2023

Project Manager – Prime Video. World Wide

Created and scheduled individual merchandising campaigns for the international Prime Video homepages across website, mobile apps, and living room devices

Managed internal working events to ensuring campaign optimization

Executed campaigns featuring new movie and TV content from client Video Channels

Collaboration across business lines with internal teams to manage calendar

T-Mobile July 2021 – April 2022

Project Manager

Programming digital business partnerships across categories

Building streamlining solutions and cost effectiveness within digital environment

Educating teams on future of procurement in digital space

Microsoft

April 2019 – Oct 2019

Project Manager – X box

Facilitated marketing campaigns for Website, Retail, social media, Print and Trade show marketing promotions and campaigns for future MS product launches

Develop and maintain schedules

Managed internal working events to ensuring campaign optimization

AT&T

Aug 2018 – May 2019

Website Marketing Manager

Collaboration with stake holders, building future growth strategies based on customer behaviors

Digital marketing focusing on KPI’s and driving traffic

Partner with internal clients to understand program deliverables and actions to develop product marketing plans

Site merchandising metrics reporting

Manage the processes for providing timely program status updates, milestone reviews, action items, and risk mediation

Lead “Terms and Conditions” updates; working with legal, suppliers and internal partners. ATT has since adopted the process for all ecommerce platforms

Manage roadmaps, monitored delivery conflicts and explored opportunities for the Spanish market and southern boarders to increase sales

AB test lead

Boeing

July 2015 – Apr 2017

Inventory Analyst

Project manager for raw material future strategy

Supplier management

Contract reviews; Vendor liaison

Procurement analyst

Analyze vendor KPI’s for forecasting and trend analysis

Cross functional teams identifying cost saving opportunities

Facilitate the development of feasibility studies for cost and use reduction

Managed performance reviews with stakeholders

Microsoft Feb 2014 – Nov 2014

Project Manager -X box

Product launch procurement management

Promotion project manager

Visual merchandising procurement management – coordinate project requests, asset delivery, purchase orders, production schedules and timelines for in store print materials

Supplier management

Provide direction/coordinate with vendors managing deliverables

Partnered with creative group and vendors in developing schedules for print projects to ensure that deadlines are met, and all required milestones are completed on time

Cross function management of multiple business and marketing teams to track feedback and approvals

Coordinate visual merchandising execution with field merchandising and production vendors to insure execution across multiple retail partner

Sunrise Identity Marketing

Aug 2009 – Nov 2013

Website Marketing and Procurement Manager

Business analytics to drive company sales

Lead team in Website marketing, merchandising and inventory control for Starbucks, T-Mobile, Microsoft, City University, Dogtopia, Precor, People to People Ambassador Program and Trident Seafood

Campaign optimization

Monitored KPI’s through Google Analytics to increase sales and traffic

P&L analysis

Contracts negotiation for Microsoft, Starbucks and T-Mobile programs

Increased efficiency within Programs by streamlining processes and recruiting strong talent

Developed and procured product for Fortune 500 based on brand requirements working directly with vendor base

Importing and QA Manager

Eddie Bauer

July 1994 – Dec 2007

Sourcing Manager

Developed yearly and monthly budget for each category

Global Supply Chain Divisional

Operations Manger

Designed merchandise

Procured internationally and negotiated pricing with vendors to ensure margin objectives were met

Awarded “Best of Bauer” for 2004 and 2000 (Most prestigious award based on sales, innovation and leadership)

Merchant Hero award recipient 8 times (Quarterly award given for best company sales to plan)

Developed strategic direction of product categories utilizing competitive analysis, trend awareness, and historical performance and company initiatives

Built balanced product assortments to drive sales determining style count, ranking, flow, item presentation, color palette and customization

Owned retail pricing strategy to meet sales, value and profit objectives

Partnered with VP Merchandising, VP Design, Merchants, Developers, Technicians, and QA to build product, which supported the Eddie Bauer brand

Collaborated with coworkers on Marketing plans to ensure division held best ability to drive sales as a team

Education:

Business Management, University of Montana

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