Own the end-to-end commercial agenda for a new Midwest manufacturing platform, building a best-in-class co-packing facility to serve both large established brands and smaller emerging brands looking for additional capacity.
Well-capitalized and institutionally backed, with a mandate to scale globally through a combination of greenfield development and future acquisitions. The platform is being built deliberately, prioritizing revenue visibility, operational excellence, and long-term customer partnerships, rather than short-term volume.
Role Overview
The CEO will have full P&L and operational responsibility. You will lead the business from late-stage development through commissioning, ramp-up, and scale, ensuring that the company launches as a high-credibility, high-performance industrial platform. This role requires deep operating judgment, disciplined capital allocation, and the ability to build trust with customers, lenders, employees, and investors simultaneously.
- Build and lead a greenfield industrial business from development through steady-state operations
- Integrate commercial, operational, and financial execution into a single accountable operating model
- Scale into a repeatable, multi-site global platform
12–18 Month Success Criteria
- Deliver on-time, on-budget commissioning of the Midwest facility
- Achieve a controlled ramp-up to target utilisation and OEE
- Convert contracted capacity into reliable EBITDA generation
- Establish as a credible, bankable operating platform
- Build the organisational foundation for replicable future sites
Ideal Background
- 15–25+ years in industrial manufacturing, beverage, food, or contract manufacturing
- Has personally led: Greenfield builds, major brownfield expansions and multi-disciplinary teams (ops, commercial, finance, engineering)
- Comfortable with: Board-level accountability, Lender scrutiny, Complex stakeholder environments
Core Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the long-term platform strategy, translating investor ambition into clear operating priorities and building a repeatable, scalable model
- Own end-to-end delivery of the Midwest site — engineering, construction, and commissioning — ensuring on-time, on-budget completion and Day 1 operational readiness
- Establish world-class standards in safety, quality, and reliability
- Partner closely with Commercial to secure bankable customer contracts and align capacity, customer mix, and ramp-up sequencing while maintaining disciplined, value-led revenue selection
- Own the full P&L, cash flow, and capital allocation, including equipment financing and project debt processes
- Deliver transparent, lender- and investor-grade reporting and financial predictability
- Recruit and develop a high-calibre leadership team and set the tone for a culture of accountability, execution, and operational excellence
- Lead evaluation of new sites and M&A opportunities, ensuring expansion is customer-led, capital-disciplined, and operationally executable
Compensation
- Market-competitive CEO base salary
- Meaningful equity ownership tied to:
- Facility performance
- Platform expansion
- Long-term value creation
- Incentives aligned to durable outcomes, not short-term optics
