chris schlecht

Managed strategic planning, budget management, headcount allocation and communication for a team of 138 marketing, compensation, sales operations and training specialists across the globe. Provided strategic thought leadership to the GM of Global Field Enablement and ensured that the organization functioned effectively.

Partnering with the world’s leading agencies and brands to provide customized and scalable digital media solutions. Selling industry leading programmatic media SaaS offering. Building a new, direct to brand, sales channel for Digilant.

Defined, delivered and excuted Microsoft Advertising's ad sales strategy for the Financial Services industry. Created and sold online marketing solutions for/to the Financial Services vertical industry.

Led a team of experienced Project Managers focused on strategic sales initiatives for Microsoft Advertising. Projects included the development/creation of adCenter (Microsoft's advertising platform for Search) and the creation/launch of an Inside Sales Organization for Microsoft Advertising.

Defined and implemented US Ad Sales Yield strategies, tools, policies and process. Led a team of Inventory Analysts in support of US Ad Sales business and served as subject matter expert on Inventory Management and Yield Strategy/Planning.

Single point of contact for Sales and Ad Planning providing inventory/product guidance for pricing, proposals, and new site launches/redesigns. Managed inventory tracking and reporting for all US Ad Sales Products. Inventory Process & Policy lead: Defined policy and process for managing capacity and availability of all standard and non-standard ad products.

Managed operational relationship with Microsoft's largest distributor, Ingram Micro. Owned coordination of the forecasting & product allocation for product launches with all MSFT Distributors. Was Data Analysis and Reporting Lead for the organization.

Create, develop, sell and execute integrated digital marketing solutions for industry leading clients such as Bank of America, Fidelity, American Express, Charles Schwab, VISA, Intuit, GE, etc…

Permanent Work Transfer (outsource) management: Managed a virtual team of internal organizations and external vendors to support production schedules. IRC Supplier Base Consolidation Focal: Developed and executed against a plan to decrease the number of outside suppliers by 30%, to streamline the supply chain and reduce vendor management costs. Temporary Work Transfer (outsource) Management: Developed and implemented a process to temporarily outsource IRC production and labor.

Driving enterprise sales/business development across Moz's top prospects and partners. Providing SEO and location data management solutions (SaaS) to ensure consumers can easily find our enterprise clients, online and offline.

Develop business while selling Mixpo's multi-screen video solutions to new and existing portals, networks, demand side platforms and media companies.

Mixpo enables advertisers and publishers to build, deliver, and measure ad campaigns across display and social. Mixpo boosts the performance of social ad campaigns by connecting the channels, campaign components, and between campaigns themselves. Through these critical campaign connections Mixpo enables better measurement, bid optimization, retargeting, and lookalike targeting.In 2014 and 2013, Mixpo was selected by Forbes as one of America's Most Promising Companies.

Activities and Societies: Four year letterman in football and baseball. Male Student Athlete of the Year award winner. A.C.E. (Attitude, Commitment, Effort) award winner.