Chris Sparks Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Ar, Us

Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Leader for Retail and CPG teams delivering multiple engagements concurrently, overseeing 15+ consultants distributed across North America and across multiple projects. Advises the world's largest consumer products and retail companies on research design and testing strategies to drive commercial outcomes. Consulting lead for developing the CPG practice at Mastercard, contributing to annually published industry thought leadership, organizing and speaking at Mastercard conferences, and representing Mastercard as a SME in industry conferences. Key contributor to new product initiatives advising on areas such as go to market, staffing/support, and the client facing presentation of complicated analytics.

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Laid the foundation for the first solution consulting practice at Pactera Edge reporting directly to the Chief Transformation Officer. Worked to develop custom AI solutions (such as automatic shrink detection) that can be connected to business outcomes in the CPG and Retail industries

Bentonville, Arkansas

Various work with enterprises in retail development, applied strategy, customer marketing and analytics development. Body of work includes projects with companies including Avant Mining, WEI, The Lost Explorer, Onn Electronics, Socius Humano, and more.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led engagements to top US Consumer Product and Consumer Electronics companies as a retail domain expert with Quri. Built business intelligence solutions monitoring near real-time market conditions integrating Quri collected data with customer data.

Led a turn-around for the Mars Chocolate category management/category strategy organization. Rebuilt team and reputation with Walmart over my tenure, successfully positioning Mars Chocolate as a category strategy leader and significantly strengthened the relationship with Walmart leadership. Managed a team of Category Strategy Managers for three Walmart departments as well as Sam's Club plus team of two on-site syndicated data contractors.

Team Leader for Category Managers/Advisorships across Kellogg's Snacks Business Unit (5 total Walmart categories: Cookie, Cracker, Multipacks, Fruit Snacks, and Salty Snacks/Warehouse Chips)

Category Advisor/Manger – Cookie, Cracker, Snacks on the Go, Fruit Snacks Responsible for all category management functions for two business units, directly managing the Walmart relationship across two buying desks.

Leading pricing analytics for all Kellogg's business units with the Walmart account. Responsible for developing industry leading pricing processes and strategies leveraging advanced modeling practices.

Responsible for managing team focused on cross-functional strategic initiatives that reach across the merchandise, operations and membership/marketing functions of the organization and leading the implementation of analytics in the merchandising function of the business.

Responsible for analyzing strategic initiatives, designing and implementing business analysis methods that surface insights to drive action and lead process improvement initiatives.

Ancillary business dedicated finance support – led forecasting, budgeting, analytics, reporting & process improvement initiatives for Walmart's & Sam’s Club’s Fuel, Carwash, and Tire & Battery business units (Annual revenues over $6B).

Managed the total company finances for a Southeast US regional healthcare education company. Directed annual operating budget, CapEx Projects, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Payroll and oversight for customer transaction databases.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Predictive Analytics

Bsba, Finance