Full Name
Julia Anderson
Job Title
CDIO
Company
Wella Company
Attendee Bio
Julia has leveraged technology to increase revenue, innovation, and sustainability for iconic global brands like Smithfield, Pepsi, Heinz, and Kraft. She has won multiple awards for her leadership, including for her work championing diverse teams and culture.
July 2021, Julia completed her service as SVP and Global CIO at $15B consumer goods company Smithfield. She has led several large business and technology initiatives, including a multimillion-dollar end-to-end transformation that centralized six independent companies and transitioned the business to a vertically integrated, farm-to-fork model in just four years. In 2019, Julia and her team were honored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) with the Manufacturing Leadership Award for their transformative use of Manufacturing 4.0.
Before joining Smithfield, Julia served as CIO and VP of Global Applications for HJ Heinz North America (Nasdaq: KHC). As part of Heinz’s privatization, Julia led a large-scale organizational restructure of the global IT and SAP business units and provided operational continuity and focus throughout the business transformation. Post-privatization, Julia partnered with the business and governance team to deploy core ERP across Russia, China, and the U.S. that drove >76% of net sales.
Prior to her time at Heinz, Julia spent seven years as Senior Global Director of IT of Foodservice, Bottling, Equipment, and Customer Systems at PepsiCo (Nasdaq: PEP). Her largest project there was the successful Foodservice integration of PepsiCo’s largest independent bottlers, an acquisition that doubled the size of the company to $8B. She also led a five-year strategy to rethink the supply chain and procurement of PepsiCo’s $7B Foodservice Division and made strategic technology investments that increased sustainability and captured returns of more than $150M. During her tenure, Julia was awarded PepsiCo’s Harvey C. Russell Inclusion Award twice in recognition of her achievement of going “above and beyond to support the company’s diversity efforts.”
Julia began her career in consumer goods at Kraft Foods and its parent company, Altria (NYSE: MO), where she ultimately served as Director of IT and was bestowed an internal ABC Financial Award for her leadership during the merger of Kraft, General Foods, and Oscar Mayer. She is a member of the board of Make-A-Wish of Greater Virginia, a member of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and its Advanced Practices Council.
July 2021, Julia completed her service as SVP and Global CIO at $15B consumer goods company Smithfield. She has led several large business and technology initiatives, including a multimillion-dollar end-to-end transformation that centralized six independent companies and transitioned the business to a vertically integrated, farm-to-fork model in just four years. In 2019, Julia and her team were honored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) with the Manufacturing Leadership Award for their transformative use of Manufacturing 4.0.
Before joining Smithfield, Julia served as CIO and VP of Global Applications for HJ Heinz North America (Nasdaq: KHC). As part of Heinz’s privatization, Julia led a large-scale organizational restructure of the global IT and SAP business units and provided operational continuity and focus throughout the business transformation. Post-privatization, Julia partnered with the business and governance team to deploy core ERP across Russia, China, and the U.S. that drove >76% of net sales.
Prior to her time at Heinz, Julia spent seven years as Senior Global Director of IT of Foodservice, Bottling, Equipment, and Customer Systems at PepsiCo (Nasdaq: PEP). Her largest project there was the successful Foodservice integration of PepsiCo’s largest independent bottlers, an acquisition that doubled the size of the company to $8B. She also led a five-year strategy to rethink the supply chain and procurement of PepsiCo’s $7B Foodservice Division and made strategic technology investments that increased sustainability and captured returns of more than $150M. During her tenure, Julia was awarded PepsiCo’s Harvey C. Russell Inclusion Award twice in recognition of her achievement of going “above and beyond to support the company’s diversity efforts.”
Julia began her career in consumer goods at Kraft Foods and its parent company, Altria (NYSE: MO), where she ultimately served as Director of IT and was bestowed an internal ABC Financial Award for her leadership during the merger of Kraft, General Foods, and Oscar Mayer. She is a member of the board of Make-A-Wish of Greater Virginia, a member of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and a member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and its Advanced Practices Council.
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