Commercial/Product Line Leader Candidate

SEEKING A ROLE AS: A Commercial/ Product Line Leader converting strategy to commercial execution within the Food Ingredients/Food Industry.

IN LOCATION: Currently living in Chicago, IL. Open to local or hybrid roles with travel.

SKILLS & ACHIEVEMENTS:
This candidate is an experienced food industry leader with over 20 years of working in Commercial, Product Management, Innovation, Strategy, and General Management roles. With a strong background in Economics and Strategic Management Consultancy, he is passionate about food and has a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver growth, savings, and impactful solutions for customers. His core strength lies in assessing opportunities or challenges, formulating strategic approaches, and then turning them into practical plans and leading cross-functional teams to execute against them.

Key Skills & Highlights:

– Industry Experience: Over 20 years in the Food Industry, with a focus on Food Ingredients, and delivering differentiated solutions to customers
– Leadership & Management: Led global Product lines with P&L responsibility, built and managed high-performing, highly-engaged direct teams, and led many large global, cross-functional teams
– Proven Ability to Drive Growth: Led product lines and initiatives that significantly increased sales and profitability, as a Product Manager and General Manager, and through Innovation, including entering new markets, launching new products and building strong businesses at new customers
– Cross-functional Expertise: Broad commercial and operational understanding having worked in or closely with many functions including strategy and M&A, product management, innovation, sales, marketing, operations, quality, supply chain, regulatory and nutrition
– Strategic Development: Adept at creating and presenting strategies, but particularly then executing against them, with experience as a strategy consultant and in-house strategist, followed by over a decade within Business Units
– Industry Trend Knowledge: Well-versed in consumer and market trends such as health & wellness, plant-based foods, sustainability, clean label, and tariff and regulatory impacts.

EDUCATION: Holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Cambridge University, obtained in 2005

COMPENSATION: Base salary expectation is over $260k, depending on incentives, responsibilities and company.

If you are interested in speaking with this Food Industry Leader who:
– Is looking to lead teams to drive real change, growth and customer satisfaction
– Is eager to help your organization develop and execute against both strategic direction and practical roadmaps
– Is capable of leveraging deep industry knowledge, strategic insight, and cross-functional collaboration, then…
Contact:
George Blomgren
georgeb@kinsa.com
Worksite Preference:Onsite, Remote, Hybrid Onsite/Remote Combination
Employment Preference:Permanent, Contract, Board