Amanda Zusman

About Amanda Zusman

MBA candidate with 10 years of IT channel experience currently responsible for bringing innovative, strategic solutions to market that drive business outcomes, create customer loyalty, and drive profitable growth for CDW. My strengths include relationship building, partner management, marketing, campaign/program management, and Sales. Result oriented, dynamic, and motivated professional with proven ability to produce results in a fast-paced environment through collaboration and influential leadership. A forward thinker with great attention to detail who is outgoing, task-oriented, and eager to learn. A team player that also enjoys leading and coaching coworkers. As part of CDW\'s Product and Partner Management organization, I build, develop, and launch new Strategic Solutions that solve customers\' most complex IT Challenges. Areas of focus in my current role include strategic planning, project management, solution and program design, build and launch of programs/solutions, program management and execution, business development and more! I intend to take my positive attitude and strong work ethic and apply it to every opportunity I am given!

Experience

1. Senior Strategic Solutions Manager

   CDW

   Mar 2023 — Present · Lincolnshire, IL, US

   Bringing innovative, strategic solutions to market that drive business outcomes, create customer loyalty, and drive profitable growth for CDW • Driving internal standardization to streamline go-to-market processes and strategy for new solutions • Responsible for managing cross-department project stakeholders to achieve goals and meet critical deadlines • Leads efforts to continuously define, contribute and to improve our overall solution management knowledge base • Develops standards, best practices, and training for team members • Establishes and owns program communication plan for all stakeholders and work streams • Leads, coordinates & assimilates cross-team communication and information and distills the information for the appropriate stakeholders. Integrates new information on the fly, synthesizes the information and charts a new course as appropriate • Has clear and concise communication. Leads and facilitates both live and virtual meetings. Keeps meetings on track, on topic and summarizes assigns and publishes follow up items in a timely manner • Adapts communication style and medium to the audience needs, up to and including executive level • Defines strategy and content for formal presentations. Creates talking points and strategic messaging • Uses political savvy and all channels of communication to finesse key messaging • Prepares and provides various reports and reviews to senior leadership and stakeholders as requested

Education

• The University of Arizona Global Campus

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

  2023

• Universidad de Sevilla

  CIEE: Liberal Arts Program, Spanish Language and Literature

  2012 — 2012

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, A

  2009 — 2013

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Spanish Language and Literature, A

  2009 — 2013

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Spanish Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Telecommunications, 3.78

  2009 — 2013