VP Operations - Specialty Foods
Keller Executive Search is seeking a senior operations executive on behalf of an established premium food retailer and foodservice operator. The business brings together specialty grocery, fresh departments, scratch culinary production, bakery and pastry operations, purchasing, catering, and off-site foodservice. Its customers expect consistently high standards of freshness, quality, convenience, and service.
This is a broader mandate than conventional store management. The successful executive will progressively assume responsibility for company-wide day-to-day operations and financial performance, integrating people, production, purchasing, service, safety, and commercial outcomes.
The opportunity suits a proven food operator ready to take genuine enterprise accountability. The mandate is to strengthen operating discipline, improve margins and profitability and develop the leadership structure. Success will require hands-on credibility, rigorous P&L leadership, and the judgment to improve performance without compromising food quality, safety, or the premium customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Assume day-to-day operational and financial leadership
- Integrate operations across scratch food production, bakery and pastry, fresh retail departments, catering, and off-site foodservice
- Own budgeting, P&L performance, forecasting, variance reviews, and departmental financial reporting
- Improve reci
