SVP Of Sales Food Automation

Job Details Level: Senior

Job Location:

Downers Grove, IL 60515

Position Type:
Full Time Salary Range: $0.01 - $0.01 Salary Travel Percentage:
Up to 50% Job Shift: Day Job Category:
Sales

Duravant is a global engineered equipment company with an over 100-year operating history. Through our portfolio of operating companies, we deliver trusted end-to-end process solutions for customers and partners through engineering and integration expertise, project management and operational excellence. With worldwide sales distribution and service networks we provide immediate and lifetime aftermarket support to all the markets we serve in the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors.

Duravant’s market-leading brands are synonymous with innovation, durability and reliability.

This position description identifies the major responsibilities of this job. It does not include all aspects of the position such as the potential additional duties assigned by supervisors and the requirement for flexibility in helping others for the company's overall benefit.

The Senior Vice President of Sales – Food Automation is a senior executive responsible for defining and executing the commercial growth strategy across the Food Automation Group. Reporting to the Group President, this role drives revenue growth, market expansion, customer engagement, and commercial excellence by aligning go-to-market strategy, sales, marketing, integrated solutions, and strategic account management across the portfolio.

As a key member of the Food Automation executive leadership team, the SVP of Sales establishes long-term commercial priorities, identifies growth opportunities, and builds scalable commercial capabilities that support profitable growth. The role leverages market, customer, and competitive insights to strengthen value propositions, enhance go-to-market effectiveness, and improve commercial performance across the Operating Companies.

The SVP of Sales is responsible for creating a unified commercial operating model by driving process standardization, CRM and technology adoption, forecasting discipline, pipeline visibility, KPI management, and cross-functional collaboration. This leader fosters a high-performance commercial culture focused on business development, customer success, strategic account growth, and operational excellence.

This position provides direct leadership to the Director of Marketing, Director of Integrated Solutions, and Vice President of Strategic Accounts, ensuring alignment across commercial functions and creating a scalable platform for sustained growth across the Food Automation Group.

• 15+ years of progressive commercial leadership experience with demonstrated success driving growth, market expansion, and commercial transformation within complex industrial, capital equipment, automation, manufacturing, or technology-based businesses.
• Proven experience building and scaling commercial organizations, including the development of go-to-market strategies, customer segmentation frameworks, sales operating models, strategic account programs, and commercial performance management systems.
• Experience leading multi-business-unit, multi-site, or global commercial teams through periods of growth, integration, and organizational change.
• Demonstrated ability to implement commercial disciplines, forecasting processes, CRM adoption, marketing effectiveness programs, and KPI-based management frameworks that improve revenue predictability and operational effectiveness.
• Experience across multiple industries or market segments is strongly preferred, with the ability to identify and apply best practices from diverse commercial environments.
• This role is expected to be based within a reasonable commuting distance of a Food Automation operating company location (Ball Ground, GA; Riverside, MO; or Woodland, CA). The position follows a hybrid work model, with a regular on-site presence required to support business operations.

• Strong commercial acumen with deep understanding of sales processes, pricing strategies, and financial drivers.
• Proven ability to…