Europe General Manager Food Ingredients mfd

Overview

This is a B2B job. This role is not suitable for candidates from FMCG Horeca Hotel or Restaurants.

Geiger Food Ingredients Recruitment & Consulting is searching for an international Food Ingredients Company with a global network of plants, sales offices, and R&D centres. Position: General Manager Food Ingredients Europe.

Location : Northern Italy onsite

This is a Business-to-Business role. Please apply only if you have experience in Flavours, Colours, Extracts, dried fruit and vegetables, and other value-added Food Ingredients, and not FMCG/HORECA.

Responsibilities

• You will be in charge of Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, R&D, NPD.
• You are a specialist in Food Ingredients.
• Develop strategies and formulate annual business plan; set market share objectives.
• Lead a larger team: Finance, Operations, Sales, Business Development, R&D, NPD, etc.
• Develop, lead, and manage all commercial activities of the business and implement an innovative, growth-focused commercial strategy.
• Focus on new product areas and emerging markets.
• Ensure profitable business growth and that commercial success is achieved.
• Drive the entire business operations for the Food Business with focus on top-line and bottom-line performance; increase revenues and profitability.

Requirements

• MBA from a reputed institute; 15–20 years of work experience in the Food B2B industry.
• Responsible for driving the entire business operations for the Food Business with focus on top line and bottom line performance.
• Experience as GM in Europe for Food Ingredients.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.
• You speak English and Italian.

Key Skills

• Customer Service, B2B, Market Analysis, Strategy

Employment Details

• Employment Type: Employee
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• Vacancy: 1