Executive Hiring Experts
Top-Tier Leaders, Intentionally Matched
Set your hiring team up for success by partnering with an executive retained search firm focused on food and beverage recruitment. Curtis Food Recruiters draws on a proprietary network of industry connections to introduce you to exceptional candidates you won’t find anywhere else.
Extensive food industry knowledge, paired with in-depth talent engagement and assessment processes, ensures you are matched with leaders who meet your needs and can help you drive sustainable, long-term growth. With guaranteed placements, you can feel confident about trusting our executive retained search firm to fill your roles. We value each partnership and fully devote ourselves to helping your business succeed.
An Elevated Hiring Experience
Processes Built on Partnerships
1. Intake & Discovery
Our process starts with a deep understanding of your business needs, culture, and ideals. We consult key stakeholders to understand how candidates play a role in your success, then ensure alignment and set expectations.
3. Interview Facilitation & Offer Guidance
We present a slate of candidates aligned with your needs and work with you to make selections for each interview. A deep understanding of candidates’ motivations and compensation needs sets you up for a successful offer and negotiation.
2. Research, Candidate Assessment & Engagement
We tap into our exclusive relationships as well as our database, reputation, and referrals to approach passive talent that other firms can’t access. Multi-stage vetting provides insight into their career history, successes, leadership competencies, and motivations.
4. Post-Hiring Support
As a long-term partner, we measure our success by your success. We offer candidate onboarding support and conduct check-ins with your team to ensure expectations are exceeded. Our commitment includes a guarantee on all placements.
Food & Beverage Recruiting
Your Industry,
Our Expertise
Food and beverage executive search is all we do. With deep insight into food industry segments, operations, and hiring challenges, our executive retained search firm has the tools and expertise to fill your open roles with exceptional talent.
Manufacturing
Ingredients
Grocery Retail
Agriculture
High Standards, Exceptional Results
What To Expect Working With Us
We built our business on trust, commitment, and accountability. Executive-level food and beverage recruiting comes with high expectations, and we exceed them for every client.
From the first conversation, you will notice that we take the time to understand your business and the qualifications required to lead it into the future. By focusing on a limited number of roles, we dedicate full-time resources to representing your organization in the marketplace.
Setting clear expectations with candidates and our clients’ stakeholders ensures a match in skills, expertise, and cultural contribution.
Find Your Next Executive
Roles We Fill
Identifying talent that drives results in the food and beverage industry is our expertise. With highly specialized knowledge of the industry’s functions and segments, we have developed deep connections that guarantee placement with greatly reduced time-to-fill.
Executive
Fill executive roles with leaders who provide strategic leadership and direction to ensure your organization’s overall success, sustainable growth, and profitability.
Supply Chain
Source talent capable of optimizing efficiency and minimizing costs while maintaining quality and compliance standards.
Marketing
Fill your marketing needs with leaders who build brand awareness and drive sales utilizing market research, branding, advertising, innovation, trade, and promotional campaigns.
Food Safety Quality & Assurance
Find leaders experienced in implementing and maintaining rigorous protocols and standards to ensure the safety, integrity, and quality of all food products throughout the production process.
Merchandising & Retail
Find executives experienced in strategic planning and executing product assortment, pricing, and promotional strategies to optimize sales and maximize profitability.
Operations
Fill your roles with operational leaders with the skills to oversee the efficient operation of production facilities, optimizing processes to meet quality, safety, and volume targets while minimizing costs.
Sales
Connect with leaders who are focused on developing and executing strategic sales plans to achieve revenue targets, expanding market share, and fostering strong customer relationships.
Research & Development
The R&D professionals we source are dedicated to innovating and improving product offerings through research, experimentation, and formulation of new products, formulations, or processes.
Human Resources
Find leaders with a proven track record for attracting, retaining, and developing a skilled and motivated workforce and creating a best-in-class work culture.
Finance
We fill roles with professionals capable of managing financial resources, budgeting, and financial reporting to support strategic decision-making and ensure fiscal responsibility.
Trusted Executive Search Partners
Why Curtis Food Recruiters?
Food and beverage executive recruitment is all we do. Our team lives and breathes the industry and has built an extensive network of connections to attract exceptional talent.
The result is an executive retained search firm with an unmatched success rate in selecting and placing leaders who have a track record of proven results. We are your recruiting partner and a passionate brand champion for your business, connecting you with talent that aligns with your company’s goals and vision.
 Executive Food Recruiting Success Stories
AgTech Chief Executive Officer
A startup AgTech company approached Curtis Food Recruiters for assistance in recruiting and hiring a Chief Executive Officer. As a provider and grower of fresh produce and CPG products in a tough market, the company needed a growth-focused leader who aligned with its commitment to innovation and sustainability.
Natural Products Industry Chief Executive Officer
A global manufacturer and supplier of certified organic and non-GMO ingredients approached Curtis Food Recruiters to lead its search for a Chief Executive Officer. They needed to fill the role quickly with a candidate focused on strategy and innovation, and who aligned with their company’s mission of positively impacting people and the environment.
Food Supplier Chief Operating Officer
A supplier of organic, responsibly sourced meat, seafood, and poultry approached Curtis Food Recruiters to fill its opening for a Chief Operating Officer. They needed an exceptional candidate who shared the company’s vision and commitment to safety, quality, and innovation.
Hiring Success Stories
What Our Clients Say
Curtis Food Recruiters does an excellent job leading executive search in a multitude of disciplines across the food and ingredient space. They are experts in the field and provide a true strategic partnership approach every step of the way. Their team is committed to finding the right fit for both the client and the candidate and I would highly recommend utilizing CFR for any search.
Curtis Food Recruiters did a wonderful job, they were very creative and the quality of candidates they got for us was shocking. They were way above anything that I ever expected from a qualification standpoint, and it gave us a good pool to choose from.
Expert Hiring Solutions
Start Your Executive Search
Filling executive roles just got easier. With decades of experience as food and beverage recruiters, our executive retained search firm provides a diverse pool of candidates who meet your hiring criteria. Schedule a call to see why clients trust us as their long-term food and beverage recruitment partner.