Jill Harrison

Change Leader/Facilitator and Strategic Planner

Jill is a resourceful and experienced professional with a background overseeing various senior level planning activities. She is skilled at translating expressed needs into strategies and frameworks, then coordinating with business leadership teams. She has a proven history of assessing needs, managing change and driving improvements. Jill has held roles that allow her to understand and facilitate end-to-end supply chain flow.

Experience

• ADUSA Supply Chain –  Operations – Strategic Planning Manager
  • Pioneered, developed and implemented strategic initiatives including 3-5 year capital plans, Business Systems and IT Portfolio Partnership and Management, and Business Continuity and Contingency Planning.  Led multiple cross-functional forums to achieve outcomes.   
• ADUSA Supply Chain – Demand Planning Manager
  • Stood up a team of 10 demand planners in partnership with Food Lion Brand.  Innovated to create efficiencies in current forecasting practices, developed expertise in Computer Assisted Ordering, and prepared to install/leap to an Automated Forecast and Replenishment Platform.  
•  Retail Business Services – Organizational Development Consultant
  • Worked with all organizational levels to develop leadership and capacity for change.  Highlights include Food Lion Cultural Change work and Supply Chain of the Future design and execution.
• Hannaford Bros. – Category Manager/ Marketing Analyst/ Retail Store Director
  • Practical experience in core business functions.  Created Nature’s Place Store within a Store, negotiated a multi-year multi-million spice contract, led the transition to Hannaford Brand Private Brand Products, and successfully ran high-volume seasonal stores. Developed and promoted many people.