1. 88 | Progressive Grocer | Ahead of What’s Next | June 2016
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Bonita Moffett
east area acting
Director, Defense
Commissary agency
(DeCa)
Moffett organized and guided
the successful launch of Flonase
in the stores she oversees when
it became an OTC drug.
When the agency’s deli/
bakery operations contrac-
tor suddenly ceased op-
erations, she stepped in to
minimize any disruption for
customers, presiding over
the transformation of 44
in-store deli/bakeries from
outside contractor-operated to
commissary-operated in just
four months.
Moffett created the first
agency-driven Push Promo-
tion Program, as a result of
which incremental dollar sales
surpassed any previous DeCA
promotion event.
Kelli
Whittington
Retail talent Development
Manager, Delhaize
america/food lion
Whittington planned,
coordinated, delivered and
evaluated the impact of three
five-week Store Manager
College classes for 60 high-
performing store managers
and assistant store managers
in two Food Lion divisions.
She helped the northern
division coach retail leaders
in four interactive cultural
change initiatives to strength-
en brand awareness, equity,
loyalty and customer service
for 17,000-plus associates.
Whittington led divi-
sional talent and succession
planning conversations to
identify, capture and recom-
mend targeted development
solutions for high-performing
and at-risk retail talent.
angela
ReynolDs-
WieganD
Retail services Manager,
Delhaize america/
food lion
Often called upon across
the organization to help
shape and innovate business
processes, Reynolds-Wiegand
and her team worked with
multiple departments on
a tag-sorting method that
made hanging tags more ef-
ficient chain-wide.
She played a key role in the
delivery of Food Lion’s Ways to
Save campaign.
Reynolds-Wiegand took on
the additional role of director
of execution and implementa-
tion, in which capacity she
mentored female store manag-
ers while continuing to nur-
ture the talent on her team.
Julie liBBy
Director, Produce,
Delhaize america/
hannaford
Libby and her team spent
significant time in the field
with farmers, learning about
their crops and harvesting
operations.
She worked with suppliers
on programs that reduce food
waste and transit times, and
led structural and operational
design work for merchandising
along the East Coast.
Nominated by her fellow
colleagues, Libby received
Hannaford’s highest honor,
the John J. Russell Award,
named for a longtime Han-
naford officer and board
member who exemplified the
company’s values and ideals.
KaRi siMs
Director,
Retail operations,
Crossmark
Sims achieved her on-top
revenue goal of $1.5 million,
and onboarded a dozen new
clients between April and
December 2015.
She launched a team to
audit execution and display
compliance for a large bever-
age brand, resulting in the
program’s ongoing expansion
across incremental markets.
To help an internal team
provide competitive informa-
tion to a client, Sims created a
monthly implemented solution
enabling the client to make
pricing modifications based
on store-level intelligence,
for an incremental spend over
budget of 87 percent.
asMita PahWa
senior Director, global
sourcing and Product
Development,
Daymon Worldwide
To integrate Daymon’s
import acquisition, Pahwa
built a hub and spoke-sourced
infrastructure across the
company’s offices in various
regions, changing the way it
sources products.
She and her team spear-
headed the creation of a
virtual showroom that allowed
Daymon to showcase its
seasonal catalogs and product
assortments, addressing the
need for differentiation and
speed to market.
Her development of an
on-trend portfolio of seasonal
general merchandise products
helped grow the company’s
customer base internationally.
MiChelle Riley
Director, global
innovation strategy,
Daymon Worldwide
Riley created and managed
Daymon’s first company-wide
innovation event platform,
working with the supplier,
consumer insight and infor-
mation technology teams to
drive inspiration and innova-
tion efforts.
She drove the creation and
development of Daymon’s first
program “kits” for retailer
partners, offering 20 to 40
supplier-sourced, trend-led
products to inspire and fa-
cilitate innovation in an easy,
turnkey fashion.
Riley led the development
of an internal innovation
process connecting retail part-
ner innovation requests with
Daymon’s supplier network to
drive efficiency and sales.
shaRon CasKey
Commissary Contract
Manager, Defense
Commissary agency (DeCa)
Voted by her peers to the
position of customer service
ambassador, she held monthly
meetings with a rotating
audience from each store
department to brainstorm cus-
tomer service ideas or voice
concerns.
Caskey presented to upper
management a 10-minute Fill
the Floor Frenzy initiative in
which all available employees
go out onto the sales floor
to the front aisles to assist
customers.
She greatly reduced waste
by coming up with in-store
merchandising initiatives
using what’s in abundance in
the warehouse.