Sean Barrett, CMO, Albertsons Companies

Sean is the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Albertsons Companies, a leading food and drug retailer operating 2,300 stores in 34 states with more than 20 well-known banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, and Star Market. Sean is a strategic customer-led marketer with a passion for innovation and connecting individually with customers to build deep and lasting relationships. He leads the overall marketing function with responsibility for brands, creative, digital marketing, marketing analytics, marketing technology and innovation. Sean has also previously led Albertsons’ loyalty program, media platform and shopper marketing. Prior to this role he led Albertsons’ Own Brands, Product Management and Innovation. Albertsons’ Own Brands portfolio includes exclusive brands O Organics, Open Nature and Signature Select.

Sean joined Albertsons from Procter & Gamble where he was the Chief Marketing Officer of the P&G/Whirlpool Joint Venture leading disruptive innovation com. His tenure at P&G included brand management roles in Oral Care, Fabric Care, Home Care, and New Business Creation, with work on the brands of Crest, Scope, Oral-B, Tide, Downy, Swiffer and Mr. Clean. Sean has prior experience working for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, and in the financial services industry for SEI Investments. Sean has a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Boston College, an MBA from London Business School and is a former holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

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