Food & Beverage Industry Executive Search and Recruiters
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Direct Recruiters has been recognized as the relationship-focused executive search firm that assists Food & Beverage, Food CPG and Natural Products organizations with recruiting, acquiring and retaining high-impact food industry employees for mission-critical positions. We provide executive search, recruitment & staffing services to fill food and beverage processing jobs. For employee recruiting assistance, placement assistance or to be considered for a food industry job, please contact our food and beverage processing recruiter, Cherie Shepard at 440-996-0582 or cshepard@directrecruiters.com.
Finding Top Talent
The food and beverage industry includes growers of raw ingredients, and processors that transform raw ingredients into food for human consumption, whether it be one-off production, batch production or mass production. In addition there are food manufacturers, distributors and food CPG companies who contribute to a thriving industry. Direct Recruiters builds long-term relationships with food industry companies of all types to bring top talent to their companies. We provide retained, contingency and temporary solutions for organizations looking for food industry experts. Our team is dedicated to sourcing, identifying, acquiring, and retaining top performing professionals to elevate the success of our client organizations. In addition, DRI's food executive search specialists are experienced in working with Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Growth Equity firms to recruit their portfolio company leaders and teams.
As food company recruitment specialists, DRI’s Food & Beverage practice area has placed industry-specific executive talent at leading companies. Our extensive network of industry contacts along with our proprietary sourcing techniques allows our Food & Beverage recruiters to deliver the best slate of executive level candidates including C-Suite, VPs, Directors and Senior Managers.
The DRI team is comprised of Food & Beverage experts including Researchers, Senior Recruiters, and Practice Leaders who devote 100% of their efforts in this industry. They have a thorough understanding of the current job market and what it takes to fill open positions.
Food recruiters at DRI continually receive resumes from food industry sales, operations, R&D, safety & quality, engineering specialists and more, to submit the best resumes to hiring managers that contracted with DRI for recruiting services. Food recruiters at DRI review the experience of each candidate to ensure that it matches the job description and requirements of food industry companies that have engaged DRI on a contingency, retained search, consulting or contract staffing basis.
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Food & Beverage Roles We Place
On a daily basis, we are in contact with Food & Beverage management and hiring authorities looking to hire key industry professionals in the areas below:
- C-Suite
- Controller
- Director level
- Engineering Manager
- Executive Level
- HACCP Manager
- Marketing Manager
- National/Global Account Manager
- Operations
- Plant Manager
- Product Development
- Product Engineer
- Product Manager
- Production Manager
- Project Manager
- Quality
- Regulatory Affairs
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Safety
- Sales Manager
- Sales Representative
- Vice President (Sales, Engineering, Quality)
- In-House Counsel
- Legal Staffing
- Private Equity and Portfolio Company Roles
- Inquire About Other Professionals
Food & Beverage Recruiting Areas of Focus
DRI acquires talent within the Food & Beverage for clients manufacturing food products broken into the following:
- Agriculture
- Baked Goods
- Beverage
- Canned
- Confectionery
- CPG
- Dairy
- Flavoring
- Frozen
- Fruit/Vegetables
- Grains
- Ingredients
- Natural Products
- Poultry
- Prepared Foods
- Protein
- Retail
- RTE Foods
- Snack Food
Get in Touch with Our Team
To Fill a Position or Discuss a Recruiting Assignment, contact our Food Recruiter, Cherie Shepard at 440-996-0582/cshepard@directrecruiters.com.
Cherie Shepard | Managing Partner | 440-996-0582 | cshepard@directrecruiters.com
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Owen Carryl | Head of Starfish Food | 972-265-5307 | ocarryl@kbic.com
Jim Stillwagon | Foodservice Equipment Recruiter | 440-971-1195 | jstillwagon@directrecruiters.com
Kanika Kalra | Foodservice Equipment Researcher | kkalra@directrecruiters.com
Food & Beverage Testimonials
Andrew Levison, Head of Sales West | Candidate
“It was great working with Jim. Kept me up to date throughout the process and was able to negotiate a higher offer in the end. Really enjoyed working with Jim throughout the process. Very professional and supportive.”
Derek Pietz, VP of Automation, Ono Food Co.
“I’ve worked with the team at Direct Recruiters to build teams at three companies now and will continue to do so in the future. What I especially like is that they take the time to not only understand the technical…
Yasmina Carrasco, HR Manager, Prosur
“The team at Direct Recruiters helped us finding the right candidate. They are dedicated, professional and hard workers. I would recommend DRI as a recruiter to anyone.”
Tradeshows of Interest
NRA
International Pizza Show
International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association Show
SNAXPO
IFT Food Expo
BrewExpo America
Nightclub and Bar Show
NFRA Convention
NCA's Sweets and Snacks Expo
MAFSI
IPPE
ProFoodTech
Powder and Bulk Show
Wine Symposium
Trade Publications
Foodservice and Equipment Magazine
Foodservice Equipment Reports
Food Manufacturing
Restaurant Magazine
QSR Magazine
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