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Chris Hayman
Career Summary
Chris Hayman is a retail improvement specialist with over 27 years of experience in business strategy development and process improvement
in the retail, wholesale and CPG industries. His specific areas of expertise include: merchandising, marketing, operations and end-to-end supply chain management. He has experience in many retail and wholesale industry segments including grocery, discount, wholesale club, drug, convenience, specialty, home improvement and department stores.
Experience
During his career, Chris has led consulting teams on business strategy and planning, merchandising, end- to-end supply chain and IT strategy projects for several global retailers across multiple industry sectors. His clients include The Kroger Companies, J.C. Penney, Total Wine & More, Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Hickory Farms, Pearle Vision, Circuit City, Men’s Warehouse, Alberto Culver and Dole Foods.
His consulting assignments have included:
Developing a retail merchandising strategy and
operational framework to enable a $4.5billion worldwide producer and marketer of fresh fruit and flowers to operate leased floral departments in food stores.
Providing business change management support for a multi-year retail merchandising transformation of an $11 billion electronics retailer, which included a major business process and organizational redesign of merchandising and inventory business areas.
Developing the functional requirements for a centralized pharmacy system for a northwest grocery store chain. Establishing operational and merchandising guidelines for individual pharmacies and HBC departments to improve sales and department gross margins.
Leading the development of a global procurement strategy for a $1.4 billion CPG manufacturer, which transformed the company from a location centric purchasing model to a global procurement enterprise model. As a result of this activity, potential savings in excess of $1.5 million was identified by consolidating current global supplier base and leveraging existing supplier contracts.
During his career in the retail industry, Chris has served in executive roles with Mrs. Marshall’s Foods and Standard Drug Company, as well as management positions with consulting companies, such as Answerthink, Bearing Point and Infinitive Consulting.
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