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Jack DeAlmo
- Career Summary
- Jack DeAlmo is a broadly skilled and
seasoned executive, most recently from
the retail drug industry, with more than
27 years of experience in store
chain management, M&A integration, real estate,
information systems implementation, and large-scale
project management.
Jack has extensive experience in staff and executive
development, organization change management, and
pharmacy and regulatory affairs. He has been at the
forefront in the retail industry’s evaluation and
development of next–generation RFID technology, the
Electronic Product Code (EPC), taking an early role in
its continuing development, as well as in the EPC
Global standard setting process.
Experience
Jack has held a number of senior management
positions in both the drug retail and automotive
aftermarket industries. Most recently, he served as
Vice President of Inventory Management and
Merchandise Operations at CVS Corporation. In this
role he led the development and successful roll out of
CVS’ first replenishment system, which improved sales
while reducing customer complaints by 50%. During
the same period he was CVS’ key executive in charge
of its EPC/RFID development efforts. He also served
as CVS’ Vice President of Loss Prevention and Field
Audit where he implemented a more effective field
organization and improved loss performance
substantially in the first two years. During this period,
h was a founding member and first Chairman of the
Drug Industry Loss Reduction Team, a group that made
collaborative EAS source tagging a reality in drug
retailing.
Jack was also a CVS Area Vice President for Store
Operations where he led the field organization through
the Arbor Drug acquisition and the first year post
acquisition period during a significant pharmacist
shortage. In another role as Vice President Store
Operations Support at CVS, he led the highly
successful development and rollout of the company’s
first point of sale system completing it in record time
without a single store failure. During the same period
he served as store operations lead on the Peoples and
Revco chain acquisitions.
As Vice President of Supply Chain, Jack led CVS’ first
complete supply chain re-engineering effort, which set
the systems development direction for several years.
Serving as Director of Property Management for CVS,
he implemented the industry’s first landlord audit and
real estate tax abatement programs saving the
company millions in occupancy cost.
Prior to joining CVS, Jack held senior management
roles in sales and marketing in the automotive
aftermarket industry.
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