全球有机服务线负责人
Global Organic Service Line Leader
全球有机服务线负责人
公司简介
FoodChain ID 是一家全球性公司，为食品、农业和消费品供应链提供检测、检验、认证和技术服务。我们帮助客户展示产品完整性，满足法规和市场要求，并在全球范围内建立与客户的信任。
职位目的
我们正在寻找一位具有商业头脑且技术可信的全球有机服务线负责人，以领导我们全球有机认证业务的增长、技术发展和运营卓越。
该职位位于意大利，将整合当地的有机认证业务，按照明确的全球战略进行管理：识别增长机会，加强技术能力和认证，开发关键合作伙伴关系，并在组织内分享最佳实践。这是一个高级领导职位，需要与众多国际利益相关者互动并频繁出差。
主要职责
战略发展与增长
- 制定并实施 FoodChain ID 全球有机认证服务的增长战略。
- 监控全球有机行业趋势，包括法规变化、国内市场发展、出口要求和新兴客户需求。
- 识别有机认证及相关服务的优先市场、行业、客户和市场进入渠道。
- 与主要食品、农业、零售、原料和出口导向型组织建立关系。
- 开发能够增强市场准入、技术能力或客户方案的战略合作伙伴关系。
- 与商业和国家领导人合作，制定针对性的客户计划并支持重大机会。
- 识别和评估可能增强 FoodChain ID 有机业务覆盖范围、能力或市场准入的并购目标。
- 通过行业协会、活动、客户会议和相关监管或行业论坛，代表 FoodChain ID 对外发声。
- 技术发展、认证与能力
- 对全球有机认证业务的技术实力、认证地位和监管准备情况进行监督。
- 确保当地企业具备满足国内要求所需的技术能力，同时支持国际增长。
- 领导制定有机服务线中一致的技术标准、政策和指导文件。
- 支持技术人员的校准、培训和持续发展。
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Global Organic Service Line Leader
Company Overview
FoodChain ID is a global provider of testing, inspection, certification and technical services across the food, agriculture and consumer-product supply chain. We help clients demonstrate product integrity, meet regulatory and market requirements, and build trust with customers worldwide.
Role Purpose
We are seeking a commercially minded and technically credible Global Organic Service Line Leader to lead the growth, technical development and operational excellence of our organic certification business globally.
Based in Italy, the role will bring together local organic certification businesses under a clear global strategy: identifying growth opportunities, strengthening technical capability and accreditations, developing key partnerships, and sharing best practice across the organisation. This is a senior leadership role with significant international stakeholder engagement and travel.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Development and Growth
- Define and deliver the global growth strategy for FoodChain ID’s organic certification services.
- Monitor global organic-sector trends, including changing regulations, domestic market developments, export requirements and emerging customer needs.
- Identify priority markets, sectors, clients and routes to market for organic certification and associated services.
- Build relationships with major food, agriculture, retail, ingredient and export-focused organisations.
- Develop strategic partnerships that strengthen market access, technical capability or customer proposition.
- Work with commercial and country leaders to develop targeted account plans and support major opportunities.
- Identify and assess potential M&A targets that would strengthen FoodChain ID’s organic footprint, capability or market access.
- Represent FoodChain ID externally through industry associations, events, customer meetings and relevant regulatory or sector forums.
Technical Development, Accreditation and Capability
- Provide oversight of the technical strength, accreditation position and regulatory readiness of organic certification operations globally.
- Ensure local businesses have the technical capability needed to meet national requirements while supporting international growth.
- Lead the development of consistent technical standards, policies and guidance across the organic service line.
- Support the calibration, training and continuing development of technical staff, auditors and inspectors.
- Identify capability gaps and establish development plans to strengthen expertise, capacity and succession across the business.
- Work closely with technical, quality and accreditation teams to maintain confidence in the integrity, consistency and quality of certification decisions.
Operational Excellence and Best Practice
- Review systems, processes and operating models across the organic businesses.
- Identify best practice in customer experience, technical delivery, inspection management, certification decision-making and operational efficiency.
- Develop a practical roadmap to standardise and deploy best practice across the organisation, while respecting local regulatory requirements.
- Use operational and commercial data to identify performance opportunities, improve consistency and support profitable growth.
- Foster collaboration between country teams, enabling them to share expertise, resources and successful approaches.
Experience and Qualifications
- Significant experience in organic certification, organic agriculture, food certification, inspection or a closely related TIC environment.
- Strong understanding of the global organic market, including major certification schemes, regulatory frameworks and trade/export requirements.
- Demonstrable commercial experience, including business development, strategic partnerships, key-account engagement or market expansion.
- Technical credibility with auditors, inspectors, certification teams, regulators and customers.
- Experience leading international, cross-functional or multi-country teams and influencing stakeholders without direct reporting lines.
- Exposure to integration work, operating-model improvement or M&A assessment would be advantageous.
- Fluent English is essential; Italian and other European languages would be an advantage.
- Willingness to travel internationally.
Personal Attributes
- Strategic and commercially ambitious, with sound technical judgement.
- Comfortable operating across different countries, cultures and regulatory environments.
- Credible and collaborative leader who can align technical, operational and commercial stakeholders.
- Practical, data-led and focused on converting strategy into measurable results.
- Passionate about the integrity and development of the global organic sector.
This is a remote role based in Italy with occasional travel.Originally posted on Himalayas