Jackie Grimm

About Jackie Grimm

As a Portfolio Strategy Executive, I’m driven by leading teams to deliver profitable growth by using data-driven strategy, market insights, and seeing initiatives through to execution - from concept to commercialization.I’ve become known as a turnaround specialist because I’m able to leverage my end-to-end supply chain (e.g, R&D, Project Management, Quality) expertise to drive impact to the total business. By harnessing my restlessness with the status quo, I’m at my best when analyzing data to uncover insights that influence strategic business decisions. My strong bias for action fuels my cross-functional teams’ ability to deliver significant impact to the P&L. A major piece of my value-add as a leader is incubating innovation – whether impacting products, packaging, or business processes – by connecting people and ideas. Proudly, my teams have a history of creating sustainable solutions across critical metrics.Recognized as an influential leader and collaborator, I’m committed to fostering trust and building rapport across the organization – because we go farther together. This is a natural fit with my role as a General Manager, delivering total business results with a cross-functional team of Operations, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Procurement, and Supply Chain leaders.

Experience

1. Vice President Portfolio Strategy & Commercialization Brand & Category Management

   Esolutions Furniture

   Jan 2023 — Present · Columbus, OH, US

   Executive team member reporting directly to the CEOLead team of ~25 responsible for product strategy and design, brand and category management, project management, and digital marketing to drive value creation in the Bush, BBF, and Bestar brands

Education

• Purdue University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biological and Food Process Engineering

  2002 — 2006

• Purdue University

  Master of Business Administration - EMBA

  2021 — 2023

Skills

• Food Science
• Food Processing
• Gmp
• Ingredients
• Haccp
• Formulation
• Analytical Chemistry
• Consumer Products
• Research and Development (R&D)
• Sensory Evaluation
• Product Development
• Food Industry
• Food Technology
• Commercialization
• R&D
• Flavors
• Product Innovation