Elizabeth Johnson
Senior Manager of Digital Enablement @Columbia Sportswear Company
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Manager of Digital Enablement @Columbia Sportswear Company
Portland, OR, US
Key Responsibilities• Strategy: Work with executives and leaders to identify strategic opportunities that grow capabilities.• Delivery: Research, design, incubate, and operationalize solutions for long-term impact.• Business Operations: Trusted steward of workforce and financial data, processes, and analytics.Key Achievements• Digital Transformation with CDIO: Designed capabilities framework and conducted maturity assessment. Implemented new op model and led re-org to align teams with capabilities and agile ways of working. Led Transformation Office for CDIO and CFO, driving 8 initiatives to accelerate agile journey and achieve $8.4M.• Enterprise Capabilities Expansion: Led Global Capability Center (GCC) Expansion program with C-suite to expand global talent and delivery capacity while maintaining service and achieving $10M savings. Managed 12 project tracks such as op model, org design, real estate, and support functions. Managed portfolio of 35 team expansion plans.• Automated Business Processes: Prototyped, designed, and delivered automated labor capitalization to improve GAAP alignment and reporting accuracy, eliminate manual timesheets, reduced risk, free hours of capacity, and achieve $74k savings. Designed automated capacity model to ensure achievable delivery plans and identify overallocation risks. Delivered automated testing capability to reduce time to release, increase quality, and enable production monitoring.• Designed Contractor Management program to enable enterprise-wide view of contractor labor, vendor performance management, supplier consolidation opportunities, staffing strategies, investment insights, and $700k savings.• Established new BizOps function in Tech team with processes, rhythms, and analytics for consistent management of financial and workforce data and operations. Designed and delivered workforce analytics. Implemented standard job family framework with HR to improve role consistency, performance management, and comp.
EDUCATION
Bellevue College
Associates, Philosophy
Central Washington University
Bachelors, Chemistry
Kaplan University
Masters, Management
Central Washington University
Bachelors, Philosophy
SKILLS
ABOUT ELIZABETH JOHNSON
I turn visions into reality. I know anything is possible when approached with clear objectives, respectful partnerships, thoughtful planning, and disciplined execution. I build strong, trusting relationships across teams which provides me with a broad perspective and an ability to connect the dots to deliver lasting impactful results. I bring passion and energy that inspires others so that together we can deliver transformational change.I operate comfortably in both the macro and the micro. I regularly engage with leaders and C-suite executives on long-range strategies then translate those into tactical steps that deliver measurable outcomes in line with the strategic vision. I drive cross-functional transformation across business units to increase capabilities and effectiveness, reduce costs, and simplify, standardize, and automate business processes.I have a proven ability to deliver on a range of objectives, including transformation initiatives, new product development, global enterprise programs, complex system implementations, analytics, process automation, and more.
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