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Managing Director

Employer
Food Industry Associates
Location
London & South East
Salary
Executive Package to attract the best
Closing date
7 Jul 2016

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Marketing, Other Job Function, Sales

Job Details

The healthy consumer trend continues, and this represents a fantastic opportunity to lead a healthy snacking organisation into future and the next phase of its growth. Following a number of years establishing themselves as a household name, the business is now looking for an outstanding leader who can continue to build the brand and the business, taking them to new levels in the UK and globally capitalising on recent investment and ever growing ambitions.

The role will be the figurehead of the business, ultimately accountable for the people, brand, P&L, performance and governance. Setting and implementing the strategy will be a key focus, ensuring you build a best in class team to deliver the future plan, whilst building a robust and enviable culture that attracts, retains and motivates your colleagues. You will be the key driver in further growth in the UK, ensuring more consumers enjoy the products and building building an innovation pipeline which will inspire new consumers, whilst also building the global development plan and overseeing the expansion into international markets.

You will be a first class operator in the food and drink sector, with a passion for healthy eating, and building brands from the ground up. Fundamentally you will have a demonstrable track record in building brand profitability and business growth through inspiring your teams to achieve first class levels of performance. An inspirational leader, you will be able to define and implement a business strategy that will ensure business objectives are exceeded, whilst at the same time positively driving change into the business to build a better business for the future. You will have strong general management capabilities, be highly commercial, and be brand and consumer led. This experience will have been gained in a mix of classical blue chip FMCG businesses coupled with smaller/SME/challenger brand organisations. 

Please apply below, or contact James Manby at James@foodindustryassociates.com for a confidential discussion. 

Company

For over a decade now, Food Industry Associates Ltd have proven to be a recruiter of choice for ambitious SME food and beverage manufacturers across the UK.  We don't recruit for the big corporates by choice.  Instead, we choose to work with companies with personality, entrepreneurial flare (not process), looking to disrupt the market with cutting edge innovation to provide consumers with better, healthier choices.

Are you an early stage start-up struggling to find the right solution to help you gain your fist listings in a specific customer channel before you can raise the budget to employ somebody on a permanent basis?  Maybe you know you need to source a commercial leader but aren't 100% clear in what format, or how to adequately incentivise somebody from a much larger business to join your mission?  Come speak to us.

If you're a more established business looking to bring fresh talent on board to drive ambitious sales targets, source a creative innovator to help you drive in to new extended categories, or looking to strengthen in marketing / category terms, again, come speak to us.

We've a proven record in recruiting talent for an array of businesses, helping them source commercial talent to help them achieve their goals.  From early stage sales talent through to equity-incentivised leadership roles, we've proven time and time again to find the right people for our clients at the first attempt.  

How are we different to most of our competitors?  Unlike most, we don't have as diverse a portfolio of clients we work with.  However all those we do work with continuously come back to us whenever they next have another need.  In our opinion successful recruitment is achieved when two businesses truly 'partner' and collaborate together.  In our opinion the better we know you, the better we understand all the extra elements aside from simple skillset and experience to ensure the right 'fit' is identified at the first attempt.  In our opinion, this is recruitment, done properly.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 3572245
Location
Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB

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