Schnuck Markets announced Thursday that Jada D. Reese will lead the company’s human resources team as the company’s chief people officer, effective January 30.
Reese brings 26 years of professional experience, including HR leadership roles at BJC Healthcare, Express Scripts, and Anheuser-Busch. She most recently held the role of SVP of HR at Enterprise Bank & Trust.
At Schnucks, she will lead the HR team, overseeing department functions including teammate recruitment, retention, labor relations, training and development, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and culture and values integration. Reese will also become a member of the company’s strategy team, the 10-member team of executives tasked with leading the overall direction and execution of the company.
“As we live our mission to nourish people’s lives, we know it begins with our most important resource–our nearly 12,000 teammates,” said Schnucks chairman and CEO Todd Schnuck, in a statement. “Jada’s broad industry leadership experience in human resources, along with her values-based approach to empowering teams, will help us to position our teammates for success in everything we do to serve our customers.”
Reese has led key human resources initiatives at several companies during her career, including ideating and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies, overseeing mergers and acquisitions integrations, and developing employee recruitment and retention programs.
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