Dani Hreha

Lead a team responsible for Talent Movement, Growth and Development at Amazon. We develop programs & build talent products at global scale. Our work has a direct impact on 1M+ Amazonians across all of our businesses and locations around the world.

Senior Country Program Lead for Global Innovation, focused on building the global business strategy, driving global performance and defining the global playbook for Amazon Launchpad. Amazon Launchpad is a unique program showcasing innovative products from startups and entrepreneurs around the world making it easy for them to onboard, market and launch new products to millions of our customers. We are proud to work with a growing list of venture capitalists, accelerators, incubators and crowdfunding platforms to help us identify new, inspired, and cutting-edge products for the world to discover.

Lead a team focused on driving P/L & vendor management, growing selection, category profitability, and new category strategy.

- Responsible for leading operational programs which support the business team strategy and building clear, simple and easy to execute retail facing plans. - Aligning the appropriate resources necessary in order to facilitate the working meeting rhythms to develop launch plans for multiple initiatives and then provide ongoing support plans at a corporate and retail level. - Articulate the merchant and overall business group strategy while representing the business team’s point of view in cross functional settings, as well as across other business groups and external partners. - Responsible for co- development of business strategies with direct accountability to delivery of the holistic operational plan and must balance day to day business needs with more strategic activities. - Successfully launched several strategic vendor partnerships across all channels. - Established process for strategic vendor partnership execution and management. - Direct responsibility for category and strategic initiative operational plans and processes. - Ensured successful application of projects & ensure execution of these initiatives in order to deliver a comprehensive plan (encompassing multiple retail store formats) to Retail Operations for field communications, training and execution. - Consistently worked to improve cross-functional integration across entire enterprise. - Built key partnerships with marketing, merchants, and operations across the company. - Executed business opportunities across channels and businesses and ensuring outcomes and in store experiences serve the customer and employee experience. - Influenced and drove decisions in order to provide process implementation expertise. - Provided clear direction, feedback and development for team of nine managers and specialists. - Created and managed team assignments based on strengths, talents, group dynamics and business needs

- Managed portfolio of services including Geek Squad Black Tie Protection Plans ($58M), Appliance Installation Services ($12M) and Home Delivery Services ($12M) for the Appliances Business Team. - Exceeded budget expectations by approximately $2.5M for the 6 months in role and consistently grew the business YoY each month. - Leveraged cross functional relationships to learn and personally apply tactical skills needed outside of role in order to execute business plans and needs. - Created and merchandised new service offerings, which resulted in over $1M of Gross Profit for Fiscal 2012. - Managed pricing, margin performance, and overall business growth of Appliance Service Plan business. - Supported multiple capabilities by partnering with cross-functional teams across retail and corporate channels. - Provided communication and insight to field teams in response to direct questions and requests via multiple communication lines (BBY Answers, Employee News, email, etc.). - Leveraged relationships across channels in order to better communicate existing and new service offerings for Fiscal 2012. - Launched, developed, and managed two test programs in 10 stores from October 2011 through February 2012.

Best Buy is associated so strongly with technology - but we're not only consumer electronics. Don't get us wrong; we love the stuff. It's just that we think technology should serve people, and not the other way around. You might say that we love technology, but we're not in love with technology. Technology makes a lot of promises, and we're here to make it live it up to those promises. For people. Best Buy also remains committed to being a socially and environmentally responsible corporation through programs focused on leading social change and reducing the carbon footprints of its manufacturers, employees and consumers.

- Advanced short/long term organizational goals and objectives with managing partner and senior management. - Actively managed all legal and financial matters with the client executives. - Directed all other financial, real estate, human resource, public relation, compliance and administrative functions. - Managed all office expense accounts including equipment needs, research contracts and other operating costs. - Standardized recruiting and new hire measures including the development of several Ivy League relationships, implementing annual interview schedules and creating international immigration hire procedures. - Developed and controlled all media and press releases. - Ensured overall broker dealer compliance while revamping the firm’s internal regulatory and governance structure.