Starbucks
Sarah Garrard is a marketing executive with over a decade of experience in the industry. Sarah currently serves as the Director of Owned Channel Strategy & Operations at Starbucks, a position they have held since July 2021. Prior to this, they served as the Group Marketing Manager, Marketing Operations at Starbucks from November 2018 to July 2021, where they oversaw 50+ campaign deployments per week across email, app and web.
Sarah has a deep understanding of both marketing and technology, which has allowed their to navigate seamlessly between marketing and technology teams. Sarah is known for their ability to build relationships, document best practices, and educate cross-functional partners. Sarah is also an expert in vendor management, contract negotiation, and product feedback.
Sarah Garrard has an associate's degree in biology from Cascadia Community College. Sarah also has a certificate in Foundations II - Ruby from Code Fellows.
Starbucks
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Starbucks ethically sources and roasts high-quality arabica coffee. They are known as the leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffee globally. Starbucks purchases, roasts, and serves award-winning coffee to its millions of customers. Their food and beverage offerings include Italian-style espresso beverages, cold blended beverages, seasonal drinks, hot breakfast, lunch, snacks, a bakery, and premium teas. Additionally, they sell merchandise like tumblrs and mugs as well as gift cards for special occasions. In some stores around the world, they sell alcoholic drinks. In everything they do, they always live by their mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, Starbucks began as a single store front in Pike Place Market. Originally, they sourced their beans from Peet's Coffee & Tea. Eventually, Alfred Peet stopped supplying his own beans and began to train a new Roastmaster for the company. Following this transition, they sold the company in the 1980's to Howard Schultz who had Italian Coffeehouse aspirations. Originally a coffee bean store, Howard set out to make Starbucks an espresso-based coffeeshop and led much of the expansion of the franchise. With shifts in leadership over time, a decade was spent growing market share and defining corporate social responsibility. Starbucks went on acquire several operations as part of their strategy such as Seattle's Best Coffee, Torrefazione Italia, and The Coffee Connection. Today, Starbucks operates in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Asia with about 32,000 stores worldwide.