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Rickard Vallöf

PartnerGothenburg

Rickard Vallöf

PartnerGothenburg

Helps leading retailers and consumer-facing industries in Scandinavia with full-scale transformations

Rickard leads the firm’s retail and consumer work in Norway and Sweden, specializing in full-scale transformations and strategies for profitability and growth. He also helps clients secure a customer-oriented approach. Rickard is oriented toward aiding organizational and industrial leaders in driving long-term impact and change by engendering company-wide transformations influencing thousands of employees. In retail organizations with around 10,000 frontline employees, Rickard accomplishes this by changing the mind-set of executives toward a focus on transformational ideas.

Some of his recent client work includes:

  • implementing a multiyear retail transformation addressing pricing, promotions, formatting strategy, network optimization, in-store excellence, and sales-channel excellence
  • helping engender several consumer-product value-creation programs across Europe and in India and the United States
  • aiding in end-to-end commercial transformations across consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) opportunities, including both fast-moving goods and slow movers
  • mapping key retail trends, ambitions, and implications for CPG players

Rickard has been with the firm for the past decade and is deeply committed to developing the future of private consumption by doing things like analyzing the consumption of food, discovering ways to enhance quality of life and everyday convenience, and utilizing spare time to do away with common inefficiencies through digitization and the simplification of routine processes.

Published work

State of Grocery Europe 2024: Signs of Hope,” McKinsey & Company, April 2024

State of grocery Europe 2023: Living with and responding to uncertainty, McKinsey & Company, April 2023

Will brick-and-mortar supermarkets survive in Europe?,” McKinsey & Company, June 2021

Value-for-money perception must go beyond price for European grocers,” McKinsey & Company, May 2021

A year like no other for European grocery retailers: The state of the industry post 2020,” McKinsey & Company, May 2021

What food retailers should do during the coronavirus crisis,” McKinsey & Company, March 2020

Past experience

SEB (Sweden)
Client assistance

Kinnefrukt AB (Sweden)
Key account manager

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
MBA, business and management

Chalmers University of Technology
MS, BS, industrial engineering

Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law
BS, economics