Samantha Whalen
Strategic Business Planning and Transformation | Organizational Leadership | Change Management
- Role
- Director, Global Strategy and Transformation at Dell Technologies
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Samantha Whalen
Influential executive strategist with extensive experience impacting productivity and effectiveness by streamlining systems and processes and scaling dynamic organizations to new growth. Manage operational cadence and business strategy through transformative leadership. Expertise driving results through leading cross-functional initiatives and facilitating special projects. Drive organization\'s forward-thinking culture while staying connected to a people-first approach.
Experience
Director, Global Strategy and Transformation
May 2022 — Present · Round Rock, TX, US
Lead team responsible for business transformation, modernization, and strategy across channels. Proven success designing and executing RTM strategies across markets to unlock channel value and accelerate growth and profitability. Author multi-billion-dollar annual operating plan, quota setting, and execution enablement aligning business objectives with consideration of market dynamics, partner goals, and customer purchase behaviors Guide direction of current and future business viability through financial analysis and modeling, performance tracking and feedback, market participation strategies, product lifecycle and innovation, and brand enhancement Developed online trade-in program enabling consumer-incentivized engagement program resulting in profitable acquisition tool with $250M projected profits within next 3 years Led special initiatives team creating a streamlined rolling 12-month planning process, saving hours of labor costs quarterly by transitioning spreadsheets into dynamic data planning tool leveraging AI and ML
Education
Texas State University
Bachelors, Psychology, Communication Studies
2004 — 2008
Texas State University
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2014 — 2016
Skills
- Instructional Design
- Social Media
- Public Speaking
- Research
- Fundraising
- Public Relations
- Event Planning
- Social Networking
- Strategic Communications
- Curriculum Design
- Teaching
- Marketing
- Editing
- Leadership
- Customer Service
- Coaching
- Management
- Team Building
- Online Marketing
- Training
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