Global VP Food Ingredients

About the role

The Global VP Food Ingredients will drive accelerated organic growth for the global Food and Beverage business as a member of the Executive Leadership Team. This role involves managing a global virtual P&L, leading principal relationships, and providing strategic direction to regional teams to ensure commercial excellence. The position requires a visionary leader capable of navigating a matrix organization to deliver sustainable growth and execute M&A strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the global Food and Beverage strategy, balancing principal relationships and customer needs
• Own the global virtual P&L and deliver sustainable double-digit growth in EBITA, GP, GP%, sales and volume
• Lead global principal management and develop new global and regional principals
• Provide strategic and commercial direction to regional Food teams to drive commercial excellence, cross-selling and pricing/margin optimization
• Identify, evaluate and integrate M&A targets and prioritize investments by ROI
• Build, develop and retain high-performing global and regional teams, including succession planning
• Represent the business with key global accounts, in industry forums and to the Executive Leadership Team

Required skills

• P&L management
• Strategic planning
• M&A
• Supply chain
• Pricing optimization
• Stakeholder management
• Food and Beverage industry knowledge

Qualifications

• 20+ years of leadership experience in distribution with proven P&L responsibility
• Proven track record of developing end-market strategies in a global distributor environment
• Experience in portfolio management and acquisition integration
• Success in aligning global strategy with regional execution in a matrix organization

About the Company

The company is a fast-paced, global specialty distributor.