Erin Lewber

Erin Lewber Coaching

Helping career changers navigate the pivot and thrive in their new role.

Resume, Interview, and Career Change Success Coaching

Founder

Amazon Business

Head of Strategic Account Management

Amazon Business $35B B2B e-Procurement organization serving 6MM+ customers.

In this role, I led a team of 12 Strategic Account Management direct reports who support Amazon Business' Fortune 1000 customers across Tech, Manufacturing, CPG, Construction, Telecom, and more.

Manager, Strategic Account Management

Developed customer relationships and grew sales within a $60MM portfolio of Amazon Business' Fortune 1000 customers within Automotive, Manufacturing, Construction, and Tech industries.

Senior Strategic Account Manager

Promoted from L5 Program Manager to L6 Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager, B2B Spend Analytics

Program Manager - B2B Spend Analytics

Business Development Manager, Amazon 3P B2B Seller Development

OpTech

Director Sales and Recruiting - Healthcare + IT

Responsible for driving recruiting and sales teams to achieve revenue and placement targets within target client accounts.

Account Executive - Healthcare + IT Recruiting

Responsible for growing client relationships and achieving placement targets within a named client account.

Account Manager - Healthcare + IT Recruiting

VisionIT

VisionIT is a Technical Recruiting and Staffing startup in Detroit, MI. As a Client Delivery Manager, I managed technical recruiting and sourcing delivery to meet Fortune 500 Automotive and Tech client needs and timelines. In this role, I worked on-site in a client-facing capacity to manage temporary staffing and project-based talent deliverables

Client Delivery Manager - IT Recruiting

Trader Joe's

Selected as one of 7 candidates out of 1K+ applicants for the highly competitive Regional Mobile Thriver (RMT) Program, which is the highest level an external candidate can hire into at Trader Joe's. As a corporate employee, I led store operations for three distinct Trader Joe's locations in Metr-Detroit and completed TJ's development program for people leadership and Trader Joe's signature "Wow!" customer service.

Sales Manager

Colasanti's Market

Managed daily operations and held P&L responsibility for a 100 employee, $20M annual revenue independent high-end grocery store

Director, Retail Grocery Sales and Operations

I lead a Strategic B2B Sales team of 12 Strategic Adoption Managers (SAMs) at Amazon Business. SAMs are a hybrid sales/account management/customer success role chartered with growing user engagement, adoption, and retention across Amazon Business' Fortune 1000 customers across Manufacturing, Construction, Tech, FinTech, Banking, and Automotive industries.  Amazon Business (AB), it is Amazon's B2B arm of the organization that helps companies buy the things they need for work through the convenient Amazon buying experience.

In addition to my work at Amazon, I'm also a resume, job search and interview coach for career transitioners and moms. As a two-time career pivoter myself who found herself without a job (or the know-how to reinvent my career), I'm passionate about teaching career changers how to remarket themselves for a new industry and/or role.

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Aside from all of that, I have a fantastic husband, two kids, and a dog. I'm a novice beekeeper, gardener, and love anything in the great outdoors!

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Head of Strategic Adoption, Sr. B2B Sales Leader

I lead a team of 12 to drive adoption of Amazon Business within AB's Fortune 1000 customer base.  

In this role, I've developed, launched, and scaled the Strategic Adoption role across Amazon Business.

Sanford Health

Provide leadership for medium to large-size projects ($100k-$1M+) and delivers projects by managing internal and external resources, schedules, and financials throughout the full project management life cycle.

Duties include creating, managing, and updating timelines, budgets, resources, vendors, and key project deliverables from project initiation to close out as well as assess project risks, propose resolutions, manage change requests, and track implementation of resolution through to completion to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

Verification of quality and that the project achieves the proposed benefits defined in the business case.

Senior Project Manager

Sanford Research

Delivered small, medium, and large-scale gene therapy and small molecule screening projects for safety and efficacy, ranging from $25k-$1M.

Managed cross-functional teams of 20+ with multiple collaborators across the country to coordinate project discovery, SOW and budget generation, active project progression tracking, stakeholder management and reporting, effective quality control and change management.

Established a therapeutics screening facility generating $1M in business from 2020-2021 with multiple pharmaceutical stakeholders.  Requiring experimental design, budgetary planning, resource allocation and delegation with multiple groups, teamwork, data collection and analysis, report generation, and strict deadline adherence.

Responsible for all phases of project life cycle including initiation, planning, execution, performance/monitoring, and project closure.

Research Project Manager

Responsible for oversight and management of all laboratory activities, orders, mouse colony maintenance, collaborative communications, and laboratory projects  

Utilize and train employees on relevant technologies and performance of necessary techniques of bench laboratory science

Design project outline, obtain necessary resources, coordinate task scheduling, and oversee project lifecycle development

Communicate with team and collaborators on project progression, needs, and deadlines

Submit and maintain all necessary documentation for laboratory compliance with organizational, state, and federal regulations

Knowledge and experience with software for mouse colony and project management

Senior Research Specialist

Primarily responsible for providing laboratory support to the Senior Research Specialist. 

Included in the mouse colony management process, also support laboratory by performing tissue digestion, genotyping, PCR and qPCR, and assisting laboratory scientists with various project processes

Research Specialist

Southeastern Behavioral Hlthcr

Oversight of a caseload of up to fifty clients with assistance of clients having a variety of mental health and co-occurring disorders to obtain resources for assistance in housing, employment, and nutrition. 

Follow-up with clients regularly and connect them with therapeutic, psychiatric, and primary care services. 

Oversee client access to medication management. 

Submit and maintain all relevant records for client support and progression

Case Manager

I add accelerant to aspiring project managers' career pivots ⛽

Unorthodox Project Manager who likes to help others break into project management in new and unique ways!

I do this by helping aspiring project managers ID pain points for why they aren't getting PM opportunities.
These typically present as one of three deficiencies:
> Lack of identified relevant experience
> Improper resume presentation
> Poor/underutilized tactics for networking

Once identified, we work through ways they can improve those pain points and leverage them appropriately for a new opportunity

Background about me and project management experience: 

I spent 7.5 years in laboratory bench science while gaining project management experience.  Obtained my PMP certification in 2018, was officially promoted to Research Project Manager in 2020, and now am a Senior Project Manager with our Enterprise Project Management Office, overseeing highly-visible strategic projects across our healthcare org's Midwest footprint.

Other PM experience:
- Project oversight of multiple preclinical gene therapies
- Project management of small molecule and repurposed drug screening projects
- Establishment of a standalone screening facility to collaborate with other research institutions, pharmaceutical, and therapeutics companies

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