*Lenovo quota achievement combined averaged 146% (2019-2022)
Sr Manager, NA Category, Consumer & Commercial Accessories (Jan 2023 – Present)
• Leading North America Accessories category with responsibility for achieving overall category financial goals, directing go to market
strategy, with responsibility for Product and Business Managers
• Drive the planning and execution of Relationship, SMB/Channel & Consumer cycles in a quarterly campaign cycle, through collaboration
with Sales, Ops, finance, marketing, supply chain and product management
• Focus on transforming from attach to system/pc to stand-alone product category market share growth
• Responsible for leading 19% YoY growth, 520m to 625m 2023-2024, increasing market share to 10% in 13 categories
Business Manager, North America – Commercial Android Tablet (May 2022 – Dec 2022)
• Lead commercial tablet GTM strategy, partnering with cross functional leadership teams in Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning
• Restructured GTM by solution selling in verticals, identifying growth trends in market share analysis, and building targeted heatmaps
• Oversee 78M Budget, with aspirational goal of growing 20% premium to market with newly realigned GTM Strategy
• Run Weekly/Bi-Weekly/Monthly cadence calls on status of business, projections, challenges, and new strategic initiatives
• Partnered with sales operations to create dashboards for tablet account executives to track goal activities in the channel
• Improved hygiene in pipeline activities, ensuring forecasted deals took priority and leads created
General Manager, North America – Smart Connected Device/Smart Home/IoT/Consumer Retail/Distribution (April 2020 – April 2022)
• Managed Go-To-Market strategy of 30+ consumer hardware devices - Lenovo 1P & Lenovo 3P Google Voice Assistant & Amazon Alexa
• Grew revenue from $15M to $35M in 2 years and increased bottom line results through strategic net new account development, 3rd party
partnerships & contract negotiations
• Complete P&L ownership & led two seasoned account executives that focused on improving efficiency of strategic account growth
• Built strong cross functional relationships with both internal/external executive leadership teams
• Developed channel specific promotional strategy and instore/onsite merchandising in partnership with Google & Amazon 3P teams
• Renegotiated contractual terms and programs with major channel partners and distributors (Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy US & CA,
Target, Costco, DIY – The Home Depot & Lowes, Regionals & Distribution – SYNNEX/TD & D&H)
Senior Account Executive – Tablets, Smart Devices & ARVR, Consumer Retail (January 2019 – March 2020)
• Develop and quickly expanded new channel partners (DIY, Amazon, Target & Regional Retail)
• Successfully grew territory from 9M to 21M in 12 months
• Mentored operations colleague to a proficient sales contributor
• Promoted to NA GM in April 2020