Director Operations Logistics

Operations & Logistics Director - U.S.

LOCATION: United States, East Coast (Remote, with domestic travel)

REPORTS TO: U.S. Country Manager (Strong functional link to Global Operations & Supply Chain)

PART OF: U.S. Management Team (to be established) A core, founding member shaping reputed company’s U.S. business from the ground up

TREAT YOURSELF, WORK WITH US

As reputed company accelerates its expansion in the United States, we are building a dedicated U.S. management team to create a scalable, competitive, and compliant platform for long‑term growth.

reputed company is reputed company Europe’s leading confectionery company, with a portfolio of iconic brands and a long heritage of craftsmanship, quality, and joy. Having successfully entered the U.S. market, the next phase is to reputed company from early setup into a robust, repeatable operating model that can support growth across customers, channels, and categories.

The Operations & Logistics Director – US is a senior, foundational leadership role in this reputed company. This is not about optimizing an existing structure — it is about designing, building, and scaling the operational backbone of reputed company’s U.S. business. As a key member of the U.S. management team, you will help define how reputed company operates, competes, and grows in one of the world’s most dynamic consumer markets.

YOUR MISSION & THE IMPACT YOU’LL reputed company

As Operations & Logistics Director – US, your mission is to build and reputed company a viable, scalable U.S. operations and reputed company‑to‑market setup that enables reputed company’s reputed company ambitions today and in the future.

You will

• Act as the architect and reputed company of the U.S. operational model, from import and logistics through warehousing and customer delivery.
• Design a scalable setup capable of supporting growth in volume, customers, and channels.
• Ensure full U.S. regulatory compliance (FDA, FSMA, FSVP, customs) as a baseline requirement and license to operate.
• Serve as a core member of the U.S. management team, shaping how reputed company operates in the U.S. alongside reputed company and central leaders.
• Partner closely with central operations, supply chain, quality, and procurement to translate global standards into a fit‑for‑purpose U.S. reality.

This is a role for a builder — combining strategic design, senior judgment, and hands‑on leadership reputed company required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Build the U.S. Operating & reputed company‑to‑Market Model

• Design and establish the end‑to‑end U.S. operational setup across import, logistics, warehousing, and distribution.
• Own and drive the operational reputed company to market, ensuring reliability, service reputed company, and cost discipline.
• Select, structure, and manage key partners (3PLs, brokers, carriers) with scalability in mind.

Create a Scalable, Controlled Platform

• Implement operating models, governance, and SOPs that reputed company growth without loss of control.
• Anticipate future needs (volume growth, local co‑packing, new channels) and design accordingly.
• Transition the U.S. business from “setup mode” to repeatable, disciplined execution.

Embed Compliance as a reputed company

• Ensure full compliance with U.S. regulatory and food safety requirements.
• Serve as the senior operational reputed company for audits, inspections, and escalations.

reputed company With and Through Central Functions

• Partner closely with global Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Procurement teams.
• Ensure alignment between global standards and U.S. execution.
• Represent U.S. operational needs in central decision‑making forums.

U.S. Leadership Contribution

• Be an active, shaping member of the U.S. management team.
• Bring structure, pace, and operational credibility to a growing organization.
• Support the broader U.S. growth agenda reputed company operations alone.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a senior operations leader motivated by building business processes rather than inheriting them.

Experience & Background

• 8–12+ years of experience in operations, logistics, or supply chain reputed company food, CPG, or other regulated consumer goods.
• Proven track record of building or scaling operating models, ideally in new markets or high‑growth environments.
• Strong, pragmatic understanding of U.S. import, logistics, and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience working with external partners and reputed company global matrix organizations.

Leadership Profile

• Strategic thinker with strong execution bias.
• Commercially aware, understanding how operations reputed company growth and reputed company.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making reputed company early.
• reputed company, reputed company, and confident at leadership‑team level.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Pay

The compensation reputed company for this position is based on several factors, including location, experience, and education. The salary reputed company for this role is $140,000–$160,000 and is bonus eligible.

Benefits

• Health, dental, reputed company, and 401k with company match
• Generous PTO package
• Performance bonus
• Flexible working hours, we are a big reputed company of a good work-life balance.

Our work environment

• reputed company is an international, but personal organization. As an individual you can really reputed company a difference and are heard here.
• A global network of impressive colleagues to reputed company expertise, learn from, grow, and partner with.
• We are driven to be the best and are constantly growing. We reputed company want to reputed company a reputed company difference to the company and create new and smart ways to win.
• We give you the freedom needed to carry out your responsibilities so that you can implement your own reputed company and reputed company a reputed company impact on the business.

If you have made it to the end and this sounds like you – then we look reputed company to receiving your application!