Speaker profile
Jim Flannery
Jim Flannery is Senior Executive Vice President, Operations and Industry Collaboration at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). He leads the association’s Industry Affairs practice, which engages with members and prospective members. In addition, Jim helps GMA identify and implement innovative services and programs that enhance the value of GMA membership.
Jim also has primary responsibility for developing and implementing collaborative relationships, initiatives and programs with retailers and their trade associations across all retail channels.
He leads GMA’s work to develop and launch the industry-wide SmartLabel™ transparency initiative, which enables consumers to get access to information about hundreds of attributes on thousands of food, beverage, personal care, household product and pet care products.
Jim joined GMA in 2013 from after 36 years at Procter & Gamble (P&G), where he most recently served as Managing Director, Customer Development, P&G Global Operations. Prior to that position, Jim was Director, Global Customer Marketing, from 1998 to 2003 and had responsibility for P&G’s industry-wide commercial collaboration efforts and the internal capabilities required to deliver them.
His responsibilities at P&G began in the U.S. soap and detergent and food and beverage businesses from 1977-1994, where he had sales and management roles in the coffee, orange juice, shelf stable drink, peanut butter and snacks businesses. He served as Market Strategy and Planning Manager for P&G’s food and beverage business before departing to Australia in 1994. From 1994-1998 he directed customer business development and customer marketing in Australia and Asia.
At P&G, Jim held volunteer leadership positions at GMA, the Food Marketing Institute, ECR-Australasia and ECR- Asia, and played an instrumental role in the creation of the Consumer Goods Forum.
A native of New York, Jim holds a B.A. degree in Human Resources Management from Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey.