Managing Director
Location : Eastern Massachusetts

Reporting: This Director reports directly to the CEO, North America, for this $1.5 BB European based food products company. Reporting to this Director will be a full functional organization that this Director will build.

Responsibilites: Our client recently acquired a niche products food manufacturer in the Boston area because of the anticipated growth in this segment of the food industry. In addition, this acquisition will serve as a platform upon which our client plans to achieve aggressive growth revenues over the next several years in the United States. This growth will occur through acquisition, internal product development, and licensing arrangements with world class brand owners. This Director will lead a new licensing program, which has had great success in Europe, into the US market. A number of new product categories of this established international brand will be launched to several hundred US stores in early 2009. The objective is to build aggressively the number of overall stores that carry these new product categories. While there will be strong organizational support for this effort, this Director will be key to driving the success of this program. Moreover, this Director must ensure that all of the pieces are in place to begin the launch by January and then to assess/readjust by mid-year as necessary to ensure a rapid rate of ongoing growth. In parallel, this Director will build a management team (direct/indirect) and a functional support organization to support this growth effort.

Candidate: Candidates for this position must bring energy, flexibility, and

Qualifications: commitment to the success of this program. Candidates must possess an impressive track record of launching/building brands and well understand all aspects of the support elements necessary to establishing a brand. The company culture overall is an extremely entrepreneurial one with few layers of managements where senior managers are expected to be as hands on as is necessary and totally committed to meeting company objectives.

Candidates will likely see this as a terrific opportunity to work for a world class company in its effort to establish a new category in an increasingly competitive US market.

Compensation: A base salary that will likely pay in the mid $100’s along with a bonus incentive that will bring total compensation to over $200,000.

Contact: Interested candidates should email resumes to: ksfrary@comcast.net