The client is seeking a leadership role to scale and professionalize an agribusiness platform focused on citrus and an emerging trading business. The position will lead profitable organic growth, strengthen customer and retailer relationships, and expand volumes while maintaining margin discipline. Responsibilities also include building a reliable trading partner model, improving trading and sourcing capabilities, and strengthening supply balancing between owned production and traded volume.
The role will establish a high-performance leadership team by hiring and developing key operational and commercial leaders, creating clear ownership and decision rights, and reducing dependency on the CEO for day-to-day operations. It will drive operational excellence and cost leadership through targeted capital expenditures, including packhouse modernization (such as automation, sorting, and grading), improvements in labor productivity, and waste reduction. The position will also support selective acquisitions and integration as an enabler for platform growth, with a focus on operational synergies and disciplined deal behavior.
Successful applicants will have agribusiness and fresh produce experience, with direct exposure to citrus or adjacent perishable food environments, including an understanding of seasonality and quality variability. The role requires a proven ability to build and develop leaders, manage commercial and trading responsibilities with an emphasis on margins, and apply operational depth across packhouse operations and supply chain logistics without micromanaging. Spanish and English language skills are required, and experience scaling mid-sized businesses and professionalizing structures and processes is expected; experience with M&A integration and capex-heavy transformation projects is considered a plus.