Ellin Sidell

CEO @Sidell Method

✔️ ITBusiness Owner🧨 Consulting✨ Business OwnerExecutive CoachingITConsultingSystem AnalystProduct ManagerProject ManagerBusiness Analyst

Ellin Sidell is the CEO of The Sidell Method, a boutique professional services firm. The firm has a proven track record of helping smart companies drive growth by maximizing human-centered process improvement, innovation, and leadership. Ellin is a committed professional acknowledged for 30+ years of leadership and impact in positions involving global programs and project management, cross-functional solutions delivery, business and operations analysis, process-driven supply chain, forecasting analysis, and more. Her breadth and depth of experience informs the keen understanding of projects, processes, technology, and, most importantly, the people strategies needed to realize favorable outcomes. She is a persuasive communicator, thought leader, and team builder. She possesses a reputation as a tireless customer advocate and builder of lasting professional relationships, and is results-driven and respected, with communications savvy. Her career serves to demonstrate that she knows how to ask crucial questions at exactly the right time. This has elicited the rare type of feedback that has helped her to build effective teams, systems, processes, and solutions that have grown multi-billion-dollar businesses for iconic companies such as Nestle, Microsoft, and Costco. At Costco she founded the Leveraged Mentorship program that served over 200 mentees over five years and was recognized by both the Costco VP of Diversity and Inclusion, and the then Costco CEO, Craig Jelinek. The program continues to this day. At Microsoft, Ellin was instrumental in removing friction between Ops and Sales, thus delivering myriad multi-million-dollar IT initiatives. She also established and optimized Retail Sales Account Manager processes for the $1B+ Xbox brand. She has partnered with Dr. Cialdini, author of the bestseller, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, to become a Founding Member of the Cialdini Institute and a Cialdini Certified Professional. She holds certifications as a Certifie

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The Sidell MethodCEO of The Sidell Method, a boutique professional services firm.

Sep. 2018As a CEO of a boutique professional services firm, The Sidell Method, Ellin Sidell’s heartbeat for leadership flourishes on guiding professionals and managers - at all levels - to advance their careers and enhance their organization’s outcomes. The Sidell Method is dedicated to assisting smart organizations maximize human potential at all levels.

Costco WholesaleProduct Owner / Business Analyst (BA)

Oct. 2015 - Sep. 2022IssaquahResponsible for facilitating business change management by developing vision and scope of new modernization projects and driving the requirement elicitation process. Skilled in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Attained Scrum Master, SAFe 5 Product Owner/Manager, and Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (ACSPO) certifications. Solid knowledge of writing User Stories and tracking progress in ADO and JIRA systems. Establishes strong customer stakeholders relationships throughout the project life cycle to help realize business benefits and define a set of business requirements that will translate into valuable business solutions and technology systems.

Costco WholesaleBusiness Process Analyst (BPA)

Dec. 2013 - Oct. 2015IssaquahResponsible for facilitating enterprise level process improvements. Contribute to strategy development through cross-team engagement and creation of artifacts that promote business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration into modernized technologies. BPA will support and engage multiple stakeholders toward the goal of implementing continuous process improvement. BPA will analyze, implement, and evangelize process improvement opportunities in all stages of the project life cycle.

MicrosoftSr. Program Manager

May. 2002 - Apr. 2004Managed multiple vendors and programs that had positive corporate-wide Customer Partner Experience and Continuous Fiscal Improvement impact.

MicrosoftSr. Manager of Retail Operations

Jul. 1999 - Apr. 2002Managed a team of Operational Account Managers who were responsible for the overall purchasing, communications, inventory management, and operational relationships with direct, key, strategic, retail customers.

MicrosoftSr. Solutions Manager

Sep. 1997 - Oct. 2013May 2004 - October 2013 - Sr. Solutions Manager As Senior Solutions Manager with Microsoft’s Manufacturing Supply Chain Information Solutions Group (MSCIS), works as a consultative partner in the success of clients, interfacing regularly to attain strong understanding of business structure, strategies, marketing opportunities, performance gaps and objectives. Serves as the voice of the client in evangelizing development of multi-million dollar solutions across myriad applications and functions. Successful implementations have spanned eCommerce, manufacturing, operations, retail and supply chain areas. Internal (MS) clients include CSS (Customer Service Support), www.microsoftstore.com, Supply Chain, Xbox and others. Driver of software requirements elicitation process, collaborating with SMEs to facilitate comprehensive global business process architecture, user acceptance testing and training. Advocate for Scrum Agile SDLC management methodologies and for ensuring testability and traceability of requirements. Serving as a de facto business and systems analyst, leading numerous digital and physical supply chain IT projects resulting in improved supply chain systems (SAP R/3, CRM, proprietary systems).

Nestlé USAForecasting Manager of Friskies PetCare Division

Apr. 1996 - Aug. 1997Oversaw forecasting processes for a $1.3BB annual sales division. Served as Program Manager for an operations-critical forecasting system implementation, translating internal customer needs to features and requirements. Greatly streamlined and simplified company’s consensus forecasting process, consolidating numerous functions to a unified corporate demand plan.

Nestlé USAProduction Planning & Logistics Manager

Mar. 1995 - Mar. 1996Led integrated team of production planning, deployment, and forecasting personnel. Improved finished goods inventory turns by 16% over the prior year while maintaining 98% service level and generating $6 million dollars in freight savings. Managed $50 million dollars in finished goods inventory and $33 million dollars in annual freight budget.

Nestlé USAForecasting Supervisor of Friskies PetCare Division

Sep. 1993 - Feb. 1995Supervised implementation of major process improvement project. Streamlined procedures resulting in significant analyst time savings. Instituted metrics. Used data to improve forecast accuracy.

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