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| I am representing a growth executive who has built new-product pipelines from a standing start in three separate businesses, and run a P&L while doing it. |
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| Seeking | Chief Growth Officer. Open to COO. |
| Sector depth | Food and beverage manufacturing, 20+ years |
| Scale operated | Businesses from $400m to $2bn |
| Region | Midwest US, fully relocatable |
| Compensation | Base $370,000 |
| Available | In role. Confidential, proactive search. |
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| Why I am representing them |
| Most growth executives I meet are commercial people who have learned to talk about product. This one is the reverse: a chemical engineer who ran R&D, quality and engineering first, then picked up brand, category and consumer insight when a leadership restructure left the work on their desk. They did not hand it back. I took this on because the technical half is the hard half, and they had already done it. |
| Track record |
| • | Built a new-product pipeline where only line extensions had existed. The lead launch is tracking to $80m to $100m against a previous company record of $7m. |
| • | Took a business unit from manage-for-cash to a $350m growth platform as interim general manager, with full P&L ownership. |
| • | Reverse engineered a platform lockout built to shut private label out, protecting a $400m business running at 50% margin. |
| • | Lifted capital delivery from 5% to 65% on time and on budget inside one year, and engineering project success from 10% to 75%. |
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| Where they fit |
| A PE-backed or founder-owned business that needs organic growth to justify its next multiple, and knows the answer is new product rather than more salespeople. Also an acquisitive platform: they have run diligence on more than twenty targets and integrated ten, including one at multi-billion-dollar scale. |
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“I put the growth-officer question to them directly rather than sell them a bigger title. They chose the harder, narrower target. That told me what I needed.”
Scott Williams |
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| If this profile fits a gap you are carrying, or one you can see coming, request the resume below. I will send it the same day. |
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Williams Recruitment is a specialist executive search firm, personally led by Scott Williams, focused exclusively on food and beverage manufacturing.
With a focus on the US, the firm partners with mid-market private equity firms and family- and founder-owned businesses to place Director-level through C-Suite leaders across Operations, Quality & Food Safety, Supply Chain, Engineering, and executive leadership.
A family-run business built on 20 years in food manufacturing and 10 years placing its leaders, recognized as a Financial Times Top 150 Recruiter.
Scott Williams |
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