Vice President Operations - Shaw Bakers

The VP Operations is a member of the executive team responsible for overseeing the strategy and operational execution, and continuous improvement planning for our Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Operations and overall Food Safety and Quality, ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of our organization. This role plays a critical part in guiding our strategic operations and driving the company's growth and success, properly linking all parts of the business together including the partnering of Food Innovation, Sales, Marketing and general Customer Account Management.

The VP Operations provides the leadership, management, and vision necessary to ensure the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures to grow La Boulangerie Shaw Bakers and protect financial strength and operating efficiency. This will be achieved through a respectful, collaborative and energetic style, guided by our company goals and objectives. The role has ultimate responsibility to ensure we meet specific growth and margin objectives for shareholders and that Shaw is seen as one of the most successful bakery, manufacturer and consumer products companies among competitors.

The VP will be primarily internally facing, responsible for design, implementation and profitability of all assigned functional department offerings, distinguishing the company as a leader in its industry. The role directly manages functional leaders that drive the build-out of all operations from philosophy to strategic deliverables, to profitable pricing structure, and organizational talent and leadership planning and development. This VP serves as a relentless solutions-oriented driver of business analysis and continual process and quality improvement at Shaw Bakers.

Who You Are:

1. Analytically driven, using data-backed information to build practice areas of a company.
2. Ferociously competitive, continuously seeking out continuous improvements.
3. Understands and can dictate the product landscape and emerging trends.
4. Can take critical calculated risks but fail inexpensively and with gained knowledge for future.
5. A passionate leader able to inspire, engage and mobilize the organization.
6. Thrives in a dynamic environment and is able to work on various projects simultaneously, requiring strong organizational and time management skills.
7. Visionary who can help see and create a future state company and ground that vision in to defined operational steps to arrive there.
8. Encouraging, hands-on, empowering leader setting the course for staff beneath to thrive.
9. Creative and effective strategist - has broad business and people interests and the knowledge to create and execute ideas.
10. Inclined to boldly take on issues and challenges; to comfortably confront and work through conflict; to communicate messages without hesitation; to deal promptly and fairly with employee relations issues.
11. Self-aware; responsive to feedback; flexible and adaptable.
12. A keen eye for ongoing process improvement – good is the enemy of great.

What You’ll Need:

1. Bachelor's degree in business administration, management or related field.
2. MBA highly preferred.
3. Minimum of 15 years’ experience in a complex manufacturing operational environment, with progressively increasing responsibilities.
4. 7+ years successfully hiring and developing leaders.
5. Ability to partner with and present effectively to board level investment group and holding company executives.
6. Proven experience in multi-plant operations is highly desirable.
7. Strong leadership and people management skills, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams.
8. Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
9. Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.
10. Advanced technical and data report writing skills (Microsoft Office, ERP systems management project management software management).
11. Financial acumen and proven track record managing growth, margin management and overall large-scale budgets and resources management.
12. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
13. Estimated 40% travel across plant facilities, both are located within the San Francisco Bay Area (South San Francisco and San Leandro).

Who We Are:

We are the proud artisans behind San Francisco's beloved bakery brand, La Boulangerie, charting a path towards a nationwide presence in the world of CPG. Established in 1996 by French baker Pascal Rigo, La Boulangerie swiftly earned its place as a household name across California. Our unwavering mission from day one has been to bring a little taste of France, with delicious and nutritious food, to as many people as possible.

Fueled by our Bay Area roots, thriving neighborhood cafes, and historical successes we embark on an exciting journey into larger-scale CPG and wholesale opportunities. Through our past endeavors with industry giants like Starbucks, to today's strategic partnership with Premium Brands, we're forging ahead with creativity and innovation, ensuring that our artisanal baked goods can be accessible to all.

We manage branded product under La Boulangerie and private label product under Shaw Bakers, powered by one united and mighty team. We are bakers and innovators. We are food lovers dedicated to bringing delicious & nutritious food to as many people as possible, making a range of products from breads, pastries, sandwiches, and snacks. Our goal is to balance continual innovation while maintaining French standards for quality and technique.

Today, our customers can sample decadent viennoiserie, mouthwatering sandwiches, and artisanal breads from one of our San Francisco cafe bakeries, or pick up their favorite loaf of Croissant Toast and Ham & Swiss Croissants from several fine retailers across the Bay Area and beyond...and we are just getting started!