Joe Schmitt co-leads BRG’s Retail Performance Improvement practice. He is a result-driven business professional with over twenty years of domestic and international experience primarily focused on retail and consumer products businesses.
As a consultant and industry operator, he has led high-profile engagements that have delivered measurable financial impact through cost-structure efficiency, margin expansion, sourcing effectiveness, and working capital improvement. He is recognized by management teams, boards, and financial sponsors as an expert in leading complex cross-functional business transformations in high-urgency situations. He has worked across multiple retail and consumer goods verticals, including apparel/footwear, general merchandise, and grocery, in situations ranging from financially distressed to hyper-growth.
Mr. Schmitt brings the following core competencies in retail and consumer product performance improvement:
- Vertical expertise in apparel/footwear, general merchandise, and food/drug/mass/convenience businesses
- Cost-structure efficiency
- Product-margin expansion
- Revenue growth
- Organizational design
- Store operations
Areas of Expertise
Industries
Services
Education
Villanova University
BS, Computer Science, 2001