JOEL D. TRACY
PERSONAL PROFILE
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Innovative executive specializing in freelance marketing research and successfully supporting organizations (primarily pharmaceutical and biotech) to make valuable informed decisions that substantially impact the bottom line. Instrumental in one of the most successful global product launches in Pharmaceutical Industry.
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Recognized as Fortune 500 expert with history of bringing extensive breadth and depth of knowledge to proactively identify marketing issues and opportunities, quickly bring organization to complex or vague situations, simultaneously manage multiple projects and activities, and to be flexible with changing priorities.
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Highly-skilled in planning and directing complex cross-functional projects through completion within politically-sensitive environments. Successful New Products team member to develop and implement marketing research plans for the global launch of high priority products. Most recent success in fielding numerous marketing research projects during personnel changes related to industry-leading acquisition.
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Exceptional networking and communication skills. Unique ability to build high-performance global strategic planning teams of high priority new products (including joint ventures and new markets). Widely sought-after facilitator of learning and development, mentor and coach.
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Avid user of software for analysis and to present business results.
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Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills heavily influenced by strong business acumen.
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Strategic thinker with motivation to impact business results by generating revenue and cost savings.
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Management experience includes team-building to produce synergy, reduce costs, and strengthen quality of information, including forecasting, new product pricing, new product development, supplier evaluation programs, and syndicated and secondary data needs.
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Personal Characteristics
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Demonstrated inspirational team player with strong negotiation and people management skills that produce results in a positive, collaborative, best practices environment. Ability to build off teams’ current knowledge and uncover crucial information about customers, the competition, and the marketplace.
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Proactive self-starter who can engage leaders across the organization and build wide networks quickly.
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Decisive personality with high energy, an edge for business, and a strong desire to succeed.
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Consistently displays high ethical standards that set the mantra for entire organization. Delivered bottom-line results while building coalitions that produce leaders who obtain objectives based on integrity, fairness and professionalism.
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Specialized at building benchmark-level, innovative organizations.
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Community Involvement
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Volunteer with University of Wisconsin Alumni for Community Servings, an organization responsible for preparing and delivering 3340 meals each week to homebound individuals with life-threatening illness.
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Volunteer handler for dog certified through International Therapy Dogs, Inc.
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Volunteer for disaster relief environments, including serving as process leader for the FEMA pet rescue team at Lamar-Dixon, the largest Hurricane Katrina animal drop-off site.
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Donor, American Bald Eagle Foundation.
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Education
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Madison, WI Master of Science in Business, major in Marketing/Marketing Research
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Stevens Point, WI Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, concentrating in Marketing
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Other
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Married: Cynthia A. Tracy with 2 great sons, Joshua and Matthew.
