VP, Food Business Unit

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You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team. McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are looking to hire a VP, Food Business Unit to join the team based at our global headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The position is hybrid eligible (50% onsite per month).

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• Wellbeing programs including Physical, Mental and Financial wellness

The VP, Food Business Unit Leader provides leadership and general management for the Business Unit, which includes flavor creation, applications, and marketing. The position is responsible for developing and executing multi-year growth strategies across segments (i.e. snacks, bars, savory), product lines (i.e. seasonings, flavors, ingredients) and channels (i.e. custom restaurants and private label) that drive sustainable revenue and profit expansion, while ensuring consistent delivery of positive annual P&L results for ~$500M portfolio.

This role balances external customer engagement and internal team and opportunity management.

The leader establishes and guides a high-performing team of Subject Matter Experts across multiple site locations, building a strong talent pipeline and people strategy that leverages the broader insights and technical community to enhance capability, innovation, and customer value. This role serves as both the internal and external figurehead for the Business Unit, representing the organization with customers, industry stakeholders, and cross-functional partners.

Success in this position requires enabling collaboration across Business Units to set the strategic priorities for BU by segment and ensuring the execution of the customer opportunities – this includes: expanding customer marketing and technical solutions, optimizing flavor and seasoning portfolios, and ensuring disciplined execution against growth and profitability commitments. The role balances strategic vision, commercial rigor, project and opportunity management and people leadership to strengthen market position and deliver sustained business impact.

• Create multi-year strategy identifying where and how the BU can grow annually and deliver expected growth.
• Identify and drive key performance indicators as well as analyze operating results relative to established objectives, ensuring that necessary steps are taken to achieve business goals.
• Understand the market needs and opportunities that will enable McCormick Flavor Solutions a competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with Research & Development, Marketing and Research, sensory, culinary & Innovation to establish and implement best practices within and across areas of responsibility to enhance customer delivery, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Resource the BU to support 70% reactive (winning opportunities to drive growth) activities and 30% proactive business development (building the skills, competencies and enhancing customer value) activities while also prioritizing all significant BU commitments.
• Engage cross‑functional leadership (quality, regulatory, commercialization, etc.) to ensure that category specific requirements and differentiators are built into the broader business system.

• Lead, motivate and manage a high‑performing, customer‑focused team with the intent on meeting established growth and profitability targets as well as BU goals and objectives.
• Attract and retain team members by ensuring proper orientation and onboarding to departments, culture and personnel.
• Partner and influence across cross-functional teams including Supply Chain, Finance, Regulatory, Marketing, R&D, etc.

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