VP, Food Business Unit

General Summary

The VP, Food Business Unit Leader provides leadership and general management for the Business Unit, which includes flavor creation, applications, and marketing. The position is responsible for developing and executing multi-year growth strategies across segments, product lines, and channels that drive sustainable revenue and profit expansion, while ensuring consistent delivery of positive annual P&L results.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Create multi-year strategy identifying where and how the BU can grow annually and deliver expected growth.
• Identify and drive key performance indicators and analyze operating results relative to established objectives, ensuring necessary steps are taken to achieve business goals.
• Understand market needs and opportunities to enable McCormick Flavor Solutions a competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with Research & Development, Marketing, and Research, sensory, culinary & Innovation to establish and implement best practices within and across areas of responsibility to enhance customer delivery, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Resource the BU to support 70% reactive and 30% proactive business development activities while prioritizing all significant BU commitments.
• Engage cross-functional leadership to ensure category-specific requirements and differentiators are built into the broader business system.
• Lead, motivate, and manage a high-performing, customer-focused team to meet established growth and profitability targets as well as BU goals and objectives.
• Partner and influence across cross-functional teams including Supply Chain, Finance, Regulatory, Marketing, R&D, etc.
• Partner with sales leadership to shape joint business plans and strengthen strategic customer relationships.
• Develop and strengthen customer relationships and engagements, supporting the sales team to achieve maximum focus and growth for the BU across priority categories and segments to drive market and segment expansion and penetration.
• Identify and develop opportunities to differentiate McCormick in the marketplace through support activities that add value to our core offering.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5–10 years of progressive experience managing significant P&L responsibility, with demonstrated financial acumen and a strong track record partnering with senior business leaders to drive performance and strategic decision-making
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver business results
• Proven track record of developing and executing multi-year growth strategies, identifying clear pathways for annual business unit expansion, and consistently delivering targeted performance outcomes
• Ability to lead a staff of both technical and non-technical professionals working on multiple projects (reactive and proactive) simultaneously while maintaining business continuity within organization all for the purpose of continued growth
• Holds self, individuals and workgroups responsible for agreed upon results (Managing performance and accountability)
• Initiates and/or participates in change in support of the strategic direction of Revenue Generation
• Ability to redirect efforts based upon shifting demands (Change management)
• Leverage capabilities of Geneva, Hunt Valley, Lakewood, and Irvine locations to enhance our point of difference and ability to win briefs – collaboration between BU’s to support and expand customer needs and relationship
• Develop a solid relationship/following with customers and allied industry leaders and any other entities that may positively impact the growth of the BU (Customer orientation/Business acumen)
• Must be able to communicate (verbal and written) technical/business aspects pertaining to the Market in understandable terms for customers (internal and external) to firmly grasp (Interpersonal effectiveness)
• Deep understanding of flavor systems, formulation economics, and commercialization processes