Director - Food & Agri. Business Transformation

Role: Director - Food & Agri. Business Transformation

Location: Midwest, USA Remote with required Travell

Duration: Full Time

Experience Requirement:

• 15-20 years: Recent experience must be with a leading consulting firm serving the Food & Agribusiness sector. Preferred employers: Big 4 Consulting or equivalent.
• Across the overall career span, candidate must possess ~5 years of Industry domain experience in Food & Agribusiness.

The ideal candidate should have deep, demonstrable expertise across one or more Food & Agri sub-sectors Agri Commodities, Food Ingredients, Dairy, Animal Protein, Food Wholesalers & Retailers, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) combined with a proven track record of client-facing consulting engagements and direct accountability for revenue generation, business development, and P&L-linked KPIs. This is a senior-level, high-visibility role suited for someone who can lead engagements independently, shape client relationships at the executive level, and contribute meaningfully to the practice's growth agenda.

Key Responsibilities

Client & Engagement Leadership

• Serve as the primary client-facing lead on complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements
• Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with C-suite and senior client stakeholders
• Own engagement delivery scope, timelines, quality, and outcomes end to end

Business Development & Revenue Generation

• Drive new business origination, proposal development, and deal closure
• Own or contribute significantly to revenue targets / sales quotas as a core performance KPI
• Identify and convert account growth and cross-sell/up-sell opportunities within existing clients
• Support pricing strategy, commercial structuring, and contract negotiations

Strategic Advisory & Execution

• Translate complex business problems into structured, actionable recommendations for clients across the Food & Agri value chain
• Apply deep sub-sector expertise spanning Agri Commodities, Food Ingredients, Dairy, Animal Protein, Food Wholesalers & Retailers, and CPG to advise clients on strategy, operations, M&A, and transformation
• Advise on sector-specific themes such as supply chain and traceability, commodity price volatility and hedging strategy, farm-to-fork value chain optimization, food safety and regulatory compliance, sustainability/ESG, and go-to-market strategy for branded and private-label products
• Leverage prior industry (non-consulting) experience to bring practical, implementation-ready perspectives that pure consulting backgrounds often lack

Team & Practice Leadership

• Lead and mentor junior consultants and project teams
• Contribute to practice-building initiatives: methodologies, IP development, thought leadership, and recruiting
• Collaborate cross-functionally with partners/directors on account strategy and firm-wide initiatives

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of total professional experience, with a demonstrated mix of:
• Time in industry/operating roles within Food & Agri (e.g., a corporate, operator, trading house, or processor across Agri Commodities, Food Ingredients, Dairy, Animal Protein, Food Wholesalers & Retailers, or CPG), and
• Time at a premier/top-tier consulting firm and advising clients in the sector
• Proven client-facing consulting experience, with direct ownership of client relationships
• Demonstrated success against revenue-generation KPIs (e.g., sales targets, pipeline development, account growth, deal origination)
• Strong track record of leading complex, ambiguous engagements from scoping through delivery
• Excellent executive presence: ability to influence and advise senior client stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or relevant advanced degree strongly preferred
• Willingness to travel as required by client engagements

Preferred to have:

• Experience across multiple Food & Agri sub-sectors, providing a holistic, cross-value-chain perspective
• Existing network of client relationships/contacts within Food & Agri that can support business development
• Experience managing P&L or practice-level financial targets
• Prior experience building or scaling a Food & Agri (or broader industrials/consumer) consulting practice or service line
• Familiarity with commodity trading/risk management, food safety regulatory frameworks (e.g., FSMA, USDA, FDA), or sustainability/ESG reporting standards relevant to the sector