Jessica Davenport

Establish a culture of performance management as part of the transformation for a Global Marketing and Sales organization

• Implement a framework for operations to track progress for development and deployment of over 50 multi-phased, multi-region initiatives with ability to easily identify, monitor and communicate accomplishments, risks and issues to global leadership in a simple and transparent way
• Partner with project management leads around the world to plan for regional deployment of initiatives, and extend performance management and change management best practices globally
• Coach senior team members to develop and enhance their personal project management and change leadership skills

Implemented processes and systems to increase organizational engagement, productivity and efficiency for Corporate Marketing, Communications and Corporate Affairs

• Developed and deployed internal portal to increase digital collaboration
• Advanced strategy to implement a strategic solution for digital marketing needs
• Led planning activities for organizational participation in signature external events to ensure connection to strategic pillars

Managed the strategy, relationships and work products between IT and Strategic Retail Customers for precision digital agriculture software platform

• Led IT and business teams smoothly through transition of work to The Climate Corporation utilizing a change management mindset

Led engagement and collaboration between Global and Regional IT leads to execute organizational goals

• Owned internal communication between Infrastructure and Global Vegetable IT, Global Supply Chain IT teams

Managed vendors, contracts and strategic negotiations for global IT

• Led monthly calls with regional procurement representatives to coordinate activities, consolidate vendor spend, and maximize contractual benefits and realize savings

Managed vendors, contracts and strategic negotiations for Corporate IT

Interfaced between business and IT to create software solutions for private and public sector clients

• Gathered functional requirements, designed systems, led developers, tracked and reported progress to senior leadership

Developed performance-based software for students as art of a start-up Internet Company using Java