Aaron Fenton

Aaron Fenton

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Chief operating officer at G&G Independent Insurance
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
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  • G&G Independent Insurance
    Chief operating officer
    G&G Independent Insurance
    Jan 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 5 months)
  • G&G Independent Insurance
    Chief growth officer
    G&G Independent Insurance
    Apr 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 10 months)
  • The Hershey Company
    Customer sales executive - sam's club
    The Hershey Company
    Feb 2017 - Apr 2019 (2 years 3 months)
    - Develop and execute collaborative joint business plans with Sam's Club buyers across multiple categories, delivering over $300M+ in Hershey's annual sales.
  • The Hershey Company
    Category Management Strategist, Walmart Advisor
    The Hershey Company
    Aug 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 7 months)
    Walmart Category Advisor for the $2.3B Everyday Candy Category (Dept 1)
  • The Hershey Company
    Small formats strategist, walmart advisor
    The Hershey Company
    Jan 2015 - Aug 2015 (8 months)
    - Developed short and long-term strategies to drive sales, profitability, and customer satisfaction across Walmart’s current and future prototype small format stores.
    - Provided guidance to Walmart C-Suite executives on Small Formats FYE2016 Key Agenda Initiatives.
    - Executed and evaluated test and learn projects with Walmart’s Digital/Physical integration strategy including Grocery Pickup, store layout/aisle adjacencies, and next generation prototype stores to better support digital/physical integration.
  • The Hershey Company
    Category Management Consultant, Delhaize America
    The Hershey Company
    Jun 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 7 months)

    • Responsible for acting as Category Captain to drive collaborative customer relationships and to leverage consumer, shopper, and category insights to drive sustainable growth for Delhaize America's $205M confection category
    • Leader in the joint Strategic Business Planning process leveraging trade management and business development tools and processes
    • Partnered with Category and Banner Merchandising Teams to developed new seasonal strategy which delivered +18% growth or +$3.5M across Valentines, Easter, Halloween, and Holiday in year one
    • Gained alignment to replace 5ft of declining Magazine space on the Kiosk Checkout with Candy/Mint/Gum in 600 stores resulting in 216k incremental Front End inches for the categ
  • The Hershey Company
    District Sales Supervisor
    The Hershey Company
    Oct 2011 - Jun 2013 (1 year 9 months)

    • Leader of an 11 person sales team responsible for driving sales, increasing distribution, and gaining market share in both Convenience and Food class of trade while training and motivating the team o Additional small chain responsibilities; 15 convenience and 5 food chains o Team calls on 1,500+ stores accounting for $20M in annual Hershey sales o Team impacts 3 Nielsen Markets; Chicago Convenience, Chicago Food, and Milwaukee Food
    • Created/Executed a plan to lead the Chicago Convenience Nielsen Market to #1 in the country in share gains +3.8pts while increasing sales $1.4M or +14%
    • Secured 3 new small chain accounts in Chicago resulting in over $400,000 of incremental business
    • Team increased c-store distributi
  • The Hershey Company
    Retail sales representative
    The Hershey Company
    Jun 2010 - Oct 2011 (1 year 5 months)
    - Responsible for driving sales and executing sales plans in 11 Walmarts and 17 grocery accounts accounting for $4M in Hershey sales.
    - In 2010 finished #1 in district of 11 Retail Sales Representatives based on sales growth vs. objective in Walmart.
    - Directly increased distribution in grocery accounts by 197 SKUs or 12.3 new items per store.
  • AT&T
    Account executive
    AT&T
    Jan 2010 - Jun 2010 (6 months)
    - Responsibilities include finding and bringing on new clients for Search Engine and New Media Advertising.
    - Visiting businesses to obtain pertinent information about the business itself, potential markets, problems faced in doing business, current advertising and results from it.
    - Preparing sample visuals and value proving background information, as basis for recommending Internet advertising programs customized to meet the needs of each business.
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Master of Business
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2017 (2 years 1 month)
  • University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
    Bachelor of Business
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2009 (3 years 1 month)