Board-Level Technical Director: Shaping Food Manufacturing

HPRExecutive; Dublin; On-site; EUR 163,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

HPRExecutive is partnering with a highly successful privately owned multi-site food manufacturing business to appoint a Technical Director who will lead the technical agenda at board level and steer the transformation into chilled and higher-care manufacturing environments.

You will shape the technical strategy, build capability across sites, ensure food safety and quality standards, lead a large multi-disciplinary function, and act as the external face of Technical to customers, retailers and

Qualifications

• Minimum degree educated and ideally further education in related field.
• Significant senior technical leadership experience at board level.
• Strong retailer-facing credibility with major customers.
• Experience in chilled and/or higher-care manufacturing environments.
• Proven ability to lead large technical teams and drive transformation.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the technical vision and strategy for the organisation.
• Lead, develop and inspire a large multi-disciplinary technical function.
• Drive food safety, quality and compliance standards across multiple sites.
• Lead the technical workstreams associated with higher-care manufacturing evolution.
• Build capability, succession pipelines and a high-performing technical culture.
• Act as the senior technical representative with customers, retailers and external stakeholders.
• Influence cross-functional peers to ensure technical excellence remains embedded throughout the business.
• Support investment decisions relating to facilities, processes and future growth.
• Provide strategic input as a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Skills

Board-level leadership

Food manufacturing

Technical leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field

Job description

HPRExecutive is partnering with a highly successful privately owned multi-site food manufacturing business to appoint a Technical Director who will lead the technical agenda at board level and steer the transformation into chilled and higher-care manufacturing environments.

You will shape the technical strategy, build capability across sites, ensure food safety and quality standards, lead a large multi-disciplinary function, and act as the external face of Technical to customers, retailers and