Kya Abernathy

• Managed schedules, events and travel plans for conferences, meetings and seminars, as well as domestic and international trips for the Commercial Law Team.
• Processed travel expenses and reimbursements for Commercial Law Team.
• Managed complex calendar scheduling with focus on proper allocation of team or individuals availability.
• Contributed to smooth business operations by planning and organizing meetings and conferences
• Maintained professionalism while handling sensitive information by adhering to strict confidentiality protocols at all times.
• Streamlined executive schedules by managing appointments, meetings, and travel arrangements to ensure smooth daily operations.
• Created expense reports, budgets, and filing mail systems for law teams.
• Managed executives' complex and frequently changing travel arrangements and coordinated pre-planning of trips for international trips and visa requirements.
• Distributed company-wide announcements, booked conference rooms and coordinated catering for annual staff meetings.
• Transcribed, formatted, input and edited text, data, and graphics for legal letters and contracts.

· Executive Assistant to Team Leader (manages calendar, meetings, expense reports and office coordination)

· Plan and executes all major office meetings for Customer Development Leadership Team and customer meetings

· Schedules and runs team board meetings and larger internal meetings for Customer Field Team leaders

· Coordinates onboarding of all new hires to include Leadership Development Programs, co-ops and interns

· Process all office PO’s and responsible for maintaining SGNA office budget

· Organized and maintained reporting systems including Atlas, Target’s Partners Online and the Team’s monthly Tableau shipment updates and presented at monthly Team meetings

· Organized major office renovations and technology upgrades

· Completed 6-week private coaching and training on Excel

· Acquired proficient skills in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Concur and Target’s reporting systems

· Team Leader for managing Target’s Partners Online access for internal and external users

· Additional skills in ecommerce to include: Curalate where there is a partnership with Instagram to find user generated content to appear online on Target.com for all team brands. This resulted in user generated content being displayed in 2021 resulting in over half (51%) of the visitors scrolling through the image carousel shopping for Beauty & Cosmetics on Target.com.

Women’s Studies research and volunteer work required by University

• Project leader to understand the needs and procedures of expecting parents on maternity and paternity leave relating to shopper insights. Insights used to determine brand loyalty of Baby products. This research determined incomes less than $25K were 42% brand loyal and Incomes $25-$50K were 36% brand loyal.
• Worked on PDP pages to improve content Health Score for an improved Target Guest experience by 12%
• Organized and prepared OTC products with relevant information (UPSPW, SPSPW) for the POG Line Review
• Hosted an office volunteer day at Casa de Esperanza to algin with the Credo to give back to the community