FOOD & BEVERAGE EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Leadership that runs the plant.
PROVEN RESULTS
20+
Years exclusively in food, beverage, flavor & ingredient recruiting
30,000+
Trusted, relationship-built industry contacts
< 6 weeks
Average time to placement
~87%
Placements drawn from passive candidates
WHY SPECIALIZED SEARCH
The leader you need isn't answering job posts.
A generation of R&D directors and plant leaders is retiring out of the food and ingredient industry at the same moment private-equity owners are demanding faster growth from the operations they just acquired. The person who can solve for both is already running a lab or a production floor somewhere else, and no posting is going to move them. Reaching that person takes someone who has spent nearly twenty years in this exact space and can get the call returned. That is the whole job. It is the only job we do.
SPECIALIZED EXECUTIVE SEARCHES BY INDUSTRY & FUNCTION
FROM THE BENCH TO THE BOARDROOM.
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C-Suite / Executive Management
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Research & Development (R&D): Analytical, Flavorists, Applications, Process Development, Product Development, Innovation, Research, Sensory Science
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Engineering
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Quality Assurance / Regulatory Compliance
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Food Safety
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Plant Operations / Manufacturing
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Sales / Sales Operations
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Marketing / Marketing Services
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Supply Chain / Procurement
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Human Resources
SPECIALIZED SEARCH PROCESS
STEP 1
Understand
We open with questions, and a lot of them. Your goals, your culture, the way your best people actually work. We can't match a leader to a company we don't understand first.
STEP 2
Search
Then we reach the people a posting never will, through relationships built one conversation at a time over two decades in this industry.
STEP 3
Deliver
We don't send a stack of resumes to look busy. We bring you the one person whose skills and culture fit are verified before you ever see the name.
CASE STUDY
Two VP roles. Six months of failed searching resolved in under two weeks by People Capital.
A global color and ingredient manufacturer (130 countries, 22 offices, 14 plants, 1,200+ employees) had two open VP R&D roles and no results after six months of searching and engaging two other outside recruiting firms. People Capital Executive Search was engaged. In two weeks, we placed one exceptional, passive candidate who is still thriving in not one, but both VP roles today.
< 2 weeks
From engaging People Capital Executive Search to placing one precisely matched candidate, after 6 months of failed searching by other firms.
REAL TESTIMONIAL
"When People Capital calls – I pick up the phone every time."
– The #1 leading B2B flavor sales professional in the world, currently managing $100,000,000+ of business (and growing).