Christopher Kline

Experience

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  Solon Gershman, Inc.

  Aug 1998 - Jan 2003

  Commercial Real Estate Broker

  Responsible for real estate sales and leasing. Solicited office, industrial and retail listings for sale and lease. Represented Verizon Wireless, Rally’s and Metro Imaging.

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  The Desco Group

  Feb 2003 - Aug 2004

  Retail Leasing and Sales Associate

  Represent landlord in lease negotiations of grocery-anchored shopping centers in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana markets. Responsible for leasing over 1.25 million square foot portfolio. Out parcel land sales. Gather competitive market information. Design marketing strategies, tools and materials. Orchestrate tenant mixes, shopping center flow, space allocation. Member ICSC

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  Lennar

  May 2006 - Jul 2010

  Treasury Manager & Corporate Lease Administrator Responsible for analysis, reporting and management of project specific Joint Venture debt among the company’s more than 200 JVs. Responsible for all company leases including a 2 million+ square foot portfolio of Lennar office spaces and tens of millions of dollars of equipment leases, including furniture, IT equipment, fixtures and other various assets Hosted company’s 5-minute weekly intranet news program every 3rd week, over 40 episodes• Delivered vital news and messages to the entire company.• Developed on camera communication skills.• Worked closely with Lennar Communications group.• Only male host. Internal “face of the organization.” Asset Manager – Corporate Investment Committee CIC consisted of 6 Asset Mangers and 1 Systems Analyst whose primary role was the management of all land and homebuilding assets as well as investments in all Joint Ventures. CIC was responsible for Corporate analysis and approval of all land acquisitions and dispositions, Joint Venture investments and any and all cash requests by homebuilding and land divisions. “Gatekeepers of Cash”

  • Treasury Manager

    Nov 2007 - Jul 2010

  • Host – Lennar News Network

    May 2007 - Jul 2010

  • Asset Manager

    May 2006 - Oct 2007
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  Schnuck Markets, Inc.

  Aug 2010 - now

  - Leader of rapidly growing and market share dominant Fresh Bakery department across 112 store chain.- Responsible for manufacturing, procurement, logistics and merchandising.- Responsible for the operation of a 150 teammate Central Bakery plant which makes more than 70% of all raw and ready-to-eat products sold.- Direct reports include Category Manager, four Deli/Bakery Field Merchandisers, Bakery Plant Manager.- Responsible for design and execution of significant FSMA driven remodel of 50+ year old Bakery plant. Show less - Responsible for the creation of high-level pricing strategy across merchandising departments including everyday low pricing and traditional promotions.- Accountable for $40M of retail pricing investments.- Lead architect of all price-related "test and learn" strategies across 5 state market.- Developed rule-based pricing structures for Low Price Every Day strategy.- Developed and launched Fresh Low Price program in home market.- Lead team that identified $30M of cost savings and revenue augmentation opportunities to fuel price investments. Show less I am a Professional Transformational Leader at Schnuck Markets currently undertaking an extended comprehensive training opportunity to learn and experience store operations. I will spend weeks or months in each department at various stores across our chain. My goal is to develop a holistic understanding of supermarket retail operations and merchandising as well as the requisite skills to lead a store.During this time I will maintain my responsibilities as "Schnucks Beer Guy" including:- Certified Beer Server Lead Trainer (47 certified and counting)- Certified Cicerone Lead Trainer (Beginning Fall 2013)- Weekly blogging (every Friday on schnucks.com)- Social media contributor on Twitter @schnucksbeerguy Show less Merchandising Analytics Managers main responsibilities:– Manage team of nine Performance Analysts– Analyzing performance, with particular focus on promotions– Analyzing assortment, and helping Category Managers make assortment decisions– Analyzing Trade Partner performance, and supporting CMs in their negotiations– Planning and forecasting– Adhoc financial and merchandising analysisIn addition to my responsibilities as Analytics Manager, I also blog and Tweet as @schnucksbeerguy. I have been the lead planner, administrator and instructor of Schnucks Certified Beer Server training program which has yielded 32 newly certified teammates and 20 more candidates awaiting testing. I plan to train dozens more as CBS and a select group to become Certified Cicerones as well. Show less

  • Vice President, Bakery

    Oct 2020 - now

  • Director of Bakery and Deli

    Apr 2018 - Oct 2020

  • Director of Pricing Strategy & Innovation

    Mar 2016 - Apr 2018

  • Director of Strategy

    Mar 2015 - Mar 2016

  • Director Merchandising Analytics

    Aug 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Pharmacy Category Manager

    May 2014 - Aug 2014

  • Professional Transformational Leader & Operations Trainee

    Aug 2013 - May 2014

  • Merchandising Analytics Manager

    Aug 2010 - Aug 2013