Hannah Lungren

About Hannah Lungren

Accomplished and highly competent merchandising and supply chain professional with record…

Experience

1. Director Merchandising Process and Training

   Ulta Beauty

   Jun 2022 — Present

   Create a long-term vision for merchandising workflows that ladder up to Ulta’s strategic initiatives, ensuring any new initiatives/ongoing development of current processes and training drive optimization and are a measurable value add • Lead, coach and develop a team that are strategic partners to the business on Merchandise Process Development, Training and Change Management, ensuring initiatives and priorities are integrated and aligned with the long-term vision for the merchandising workflow and continuous improvement processes to add value and efficiencies • Develops strategic partnerships with cross functional partners to enable transformative business decisions and process implications across multiple workstreams, partners with Key Stakeholders at the Chief and Officer level to gain buy-in and adoption • Partner closely with senior leaders to assess change capacity and organizational readiness, and strategically pace, prioritize, and implement multiple change programs • Develop change strategies, a harmonized merchandising change management framework and plans at both the departmental and individual level • Leads the training vision and roadmap of Merchandising Training and Education, aligning with business leadership and overseeing execution of roll-out. • Drive communication, marketing, and engagement strategy for learning portfolio. Partner with internal partners, including senior leadership, on messaging to engage learners and leverage appropriate change management processes to facilitate adoption • Implements training measurement strategy to ensure programs within the portfolio are sustainable and stakeholders are engaged. Success metrics are regularly evaluated and measured. Utilizes creative methods for consistent reinforcement of learning concepts and on-going accountability • Manage and mentor team through playing a key role in creating future leaders by actively managing and prioritizing career development/ growth and performance coaching

Education

• US Army Signal Command

  Signal Officer Basic Course

  2002 — 2002

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master's Degree, Finance

  1997 — 2001

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor's Degree, Economics

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Operations Management
• Merchandising
• Jda
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Retail Category Management
• Demand Planning
• Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Management
• Logistics
• Manugistics
• Retail
• Strategic Sales Plans
• Inventory Management
• Retail Buying
• Leadership
• Product Development
• Process Improvement