Europe General Manager Food Ingredients m/f/d

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 for the position of 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, not FMCG or HORECA sectors.

• 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 the annual business plan, market share objectives.
• Lead a larger team: Finance, Operations, Sales Business Development, R&D, NPD, etc.
• Develop, lead, and manage all commercial activities, implementing innovative, growth-focused strategies, especially in new product areas and emerging markets.
• Ensure profitable business growth and commercial success.
• Require an MBA from a reputed institute and 15-20 years of experience in the Food B2B industry.
• Responsible for driving the entire business operations with a focus on top-line and bottom-line performance, increasing revenues, and profitability.
• Fluent in English and other local languages such as Italian.

Tasks

This is not an FMCG or Hotel General Manager role.

Requirements

Please apply only if you have held a GM position in Europe within the Food Ingredients sector.

Candidate should be multicultural, personable, and willing to travel 50% of the time.