For some former high-level industry executives, the end of one career is just the beginning of another.
As the massive Baby Boomer segment of the population approaches retirement, and as companies like Supervalu undergo restructuring, more and more supermarket executives are exploring life after food retailing. For some, that means becoming industry consultants, for others it means starting their own businesses, and for many it means being able to schedule more time with family after years of long hours and busy travel schedules at their previous jobs.
The ability to work in an environment with more freedom is attractive to many industry executives who have worked their whole careers for large organizations, said Jose Tamez, managing partner in the Denver office of Austin-Michael Executive Search.
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“Some executives also want to establish relationships with the core workforce — moving on to something that harkens back to their old days and how they started out in the business has a lot of appeal,” he said. “A lot of these senior-level executives spent much of their career building a big bureaucracy, a big behemoth, and yet in the latter part of their career they develop a distaste for what they just got through building, in terms of its size and scale.”
Following are three examples of former supermarket executives who have successfully made the transition from being high-ranking leaders at large supermarket chains to new careers.
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