In his new and expanded role, Nicks heads up commercial capabilities for the U.S. businesses, including private brands, sourcing and merchandising services, bringing them closer together through such core digital capabilities as retail media and monetization, omnichannel marketing, product experience and design, and e-commerce fulfillment partnerships.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy uniting leadership for commercial and digital, we continue to drive simplicity and effectiveness with teams focused on both strategy and value across the full commercial ecosystem,\u201d said Fleeman. \u201cKeith has extensive experience leading digital, e-commerce, category management, retail media and retail operations\u00a0across a number of businesses, making him the right leader to carry our commercial organization forward. He is a trusted advisor, passionate about our business of selling groceries and is recognized throughout the organization for being a dedicated leader who drives innovation, performance and change, and I am excited about all he will bring to this role.\u201d<\/p>\n
As chief digital officer, Nicks led teams responsible for powering the technology and functionality of mobile applications, websites, and click-and- collect experiences for Ahold Delhaize USA brands, in addition to data, analytics and insights services for the brands and third-party e-commerce fulfillment partnerships for ADUSA companies. During his time in the role, Ahold Delhaize USA companies have generated considerable online sales growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m honored to take on this role leading a wider cross-section of our teams focused on creating great experiences every day \u2013 whether that\u2019s for customers in-store or online or our supplier partners,\u201d said Nicks, who started his career at Food Lion<\/a>, where he held a range of leadership roles. \u201cWhat I love about grocery is that it\u2019s a people-first business with customers at the center. I\u2019m looking forward to working with our commercial and digital teams \u2013 and all our partners \u2013 to leverage this customer first mindset to unlock new capabilities and value so that our mutual omnichannel businesses can continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n Zaandam, Netherlands-based Ahold Delhaize is one of the world\u2019s largest food retail groups. The\u00a0company<\/a>\u2019s family of local brands serves 63 million customers each week, both in stores and online, in the United States, Europe and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 402,000 associates in 7,716 grocery and specialty stores. The Ahold Delhaize USA division is No. 11 on The PG 100, Progressive Grocer\u2019s 2024 list of the\u00a0top food and consumables retailers in North America<\/a>.\u00a0PG also named the company one of its\u00a0Retailers of the Century<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a010 Most Sustainable Grocers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his new and expanded role, Nicks heads up commercial capabilities for the U.S. businesses, including private brands,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[24589,24591,24590,24597,24595,24596,24594,24593,24592,21429,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-44431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-ahold-delhaize-usa","9":"tag-chief-commercial-digital-officer","10":"tag-chief-supply-chain-officer","11":"tag-dollar-general","12":"tag-executive-moves","13":"tag-food-lion","14":"tag-jj-fleeman","15":"tag-keith-nicks","16":"tag-sanja-krajnovic","17":"tag-target","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114388532136026797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}