Jo O’Hazo offers depth & breadth of extraordinary successes in a series of high-level roles at top tier companies that include Unilever, Estee Lauder Companies, Newman’s Own Inc., and Giant Eagle.

Jo’s invaluable expertise, broad business range and collaboration have powered a history of success that drives business insights, productivity, reliability, and client satisfaction. Jo consistently achieves an impressive command of the existing business processes while developing strategies to meet future challenges.

As Chief Data & Analytics Officer for Giant Eagle, Jo leads and delivers the vision, strategy & implementation of data driven insights and capabilities across critical facets of transformation: people, process, data & technology. Her experience in enabling business insights through data & analytics delivery span worldwide scale and complexities made simpler through leveraging the Enterprise build out of the foundational data core. Ms. O’Hazo has dedicated herself to her vision as a leader who engages with an “All-In” attitude.

With a forte for successfully building strong teams and holding key roles leading all facets of data, technology and strategy, Ms. O’Hazo has positioned her customers for success as a leading expert in the field with respect to the application of best business, data & technology practices contributing to the following winning outcomes:

• Driven enterprise-wide analytics talent transformation
• Excelled across key metrics, lowering the customer realization cycle from 24 days to 5 days, with first-time-right performance doubling in improvement.
• Architected a data-centric integrated business planning approach governing the end to end cycle from innovation to consumer point of sale.
• Collaborative with executive stakeholders through pragmatic problem solving and a strong program management approach.
• Driven delivery through various methodologies and motivating participation of stakeholders &; teams across many continents, cultures & time zones.

Prior to assuming the role of Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Giant Eagle, Jo delivered through extensive positive outcomes across Executive Management, Global Implementation Projects, Collaborative Leadership, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Talent Transformation and Process Improvement across multiple roles with Estee Lauder Companies, Newman’s Own Inc. and Unilever.

Combining her proven business instinct with an unprecedented disciplinary work ethic, Jo has continuously exceeded expectations in high stake environments positioning herself as a key member of each company and a driving force for growth & inspiration.