Bonda Ellingson: Manager, Data Integrity and Business Process in Lakewood, CO
Bonda Ellingson
Manager, Data Integrity and Business Process
Lakewood | United States
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Industries
Fashion
Outdoor
Health & Fitness
Work experience
NAVAJO INCORPORATED
Manager, Data Integrity and Business Process | 08/2017 - Current
Evaluate current product data tables, identifying missing or insufficient information, and develop
governance policies to ensure future data consistency. Review existing processes, identifying gaps and faults from product development thru account management, and develop new processes in order to
optimize performance and ensure compliance with data quality.
• Analyzed various Product Information Management / Digital Asset Management (PIM/DAM) solutions
to determine best fit for Navajo and completed implementation of Salsify platform within 60 day
timeframe.
• Identified key data inconsistencies between purchasing, manufacturing, and sales for the same
product information. Organized work groups to document field definitions and their use, then
developed process to ensure data fields are correctly populated during item setup.
• Cleansed product data on over 2500 skus to bring them up to compliance with newly-defined
standards, making them accessible to create digital channels and catalogs.
• Mimicked print versions of product catalogs in digital format thru Salsify, enabling smaller customer
accounts to access and/or download product information they need for item setup in their systems.
This saves account managers from pulling the same information multiple times for each of their
customers.

SPORTS AUTHORITY
Manager, Data Integrity | 04/2009 - 07/2016
Organize, maintain, and direct processes of data integrity team of nine and provide subject matter
expertise on master data and system functionality to merchandising, finance, accounting, supply chain, and operations teams.
• Managed item integrity on over 350,000 active / 625,000 total skus, defining product information
standards and implementing processes to maintain those standards.
• Defined and implemented data governance standards for over 70 product attributes enabling more
consistent data for merchandising and financial reports.
• Developed annual archive and purge process for sku data that fit within Sarbanes-Oxley
documentation and retention requirements, allowing more efficient data flow by limiting obsolete skus.
• Develop queries and reports to identify opportunities to improve data integrity as well as measure
associate productivity and the efficiency of operating processes.
• Act as subject matter expert in AS400 merchandise operations and purchase order systems in order
to solve a wide range of highly complex multi-disciplinary problems having company-wide impact.
• Proactively identify gaps between systems and processes, define requirements, and perform
functional acceptance testing of development deliverables for merchandising operations.
SAFEWAY, Denver Division
Director of Pricing | 01/2001 - 01/2003
Responsible for developing and implementing regular price strategies and analyzing changes to ensure
margin availability for promotional activity. Continually monitored market conditions, the moves of competitors, internal operational changes and customer perceptions to develop highly effective price
strategies.
• Established a sensitive item list based on demographics, competition, and market data for 33 different
geographic regions. This enabled more innovative pricing strategies for individual markets, thereby
improving price image in all stores and increasing gross margins 44 basis points over previous year.
• Defined parameters for and assisted information technology department in developing an Excel-
based price modeling tool that eventually became the primary pricing analysis tool used by entire
company for the following two years.
• Trained and supported pricing teams from four other Safeway divisions during new system
installations enabling their teams to transition without interruption in regular business activities.
SAFEWAY, Denver Division
Manager Perishable Pricing | 07/1999 - 01/2001
SAFEWAY, Denver Division
Pricing Analyst | 05/1997 - 07/1999
SAFEWAY, Denver Division
Pricing Specialist | 01/1997 - 05/1997