Nestle

VP, Head of Technical and Production

Nestle$260K — $370K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
15+ years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in manufacturing leadership roles, preferably in vitamins or supplements.
  • Proven track record in operational excellence and strategic manufacturing management.
  • Strong understanding of quality systems and regulatory requirements in the health sector.
  • Expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Advanced problem-solving abilities with a focus on sustainability.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement enterprise technical and manufacturing strategies aligned with business goals.
  • Create clear operating plans and performance targets for site-level management.
  • Oversee operational and financial performance metrics including safety and quality.
  • Enhance standard operating procedures to improve manufacturing excellence.
  • Lead and implement performance management systems across all production sites.
  • Drive a culture of continuous improvement and operational discipline using industry best practices.
  • Define and enforce safety, health, environmental, and quality protocols across the organization.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
  • Engagement in a purpose-driven organization focused on health and wellness.
  • Strong emphasis on team collaboration across multiple facilities and locations.
  • Potential for involvement in significant capital investment initiatives.
  • Comprehensive safety and quality management support within the work environment.
Full Job Description
Organization Overview

Holistic Health is a purpose-driven, science-led health and wellness organization with approximately $1.5B in annual revenue, ~2,700 employees, and a diversified manufacturing and supply network across the United States. We operate owned and co-manufacturing facilities supporting a broad portfolio of Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS), including tablets, capsules, softgels, and gummies, in a highly regulated and quality-driven environment.

Role Purpose

The VP, Head of Technical & Production has full accountability for the end-to-end technical, manufacturing, and operational performance of Holistic Health. Reporting directly to the CEO and part of the Holistic Health Leadership team organization, the VP T&P defines and executes enterprise technical and operational strategies that ensure safety, quality, service, cost competitiveness, and sustainable performance.

This role blends enterprise strategy with hands-on operational leadership, ensuring strong execution across all manufacturing and packaging sites while continuously strengthening systems, standards, and organizational capability.

Scope & Impact
  • ~$1.5B business with significant capital investment and transformation ambition
  • ~2,000 associates across multiple U.S. manufacturing and packaging locations in Long Island, Florida, Texas and Arizona
  • Accountability for production, engineering, maintenance & digital, quality, safety, health & environmental and manufacturing excellence
  • Ownership of operational and financial performance (Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, Engagement)
  • Leadership of senior functional heads across Manufacturing, Engineering, Safety, Health & Environment, Manufacturing Excellence & Quality


Key Accountabilities

Enterprise Technical & Operational Strategy
  • Develop, deploy, and continuously update the enterprise technical and manufacturing strategy, aligned with Holistic Health's business strategy, supply priorities, and growth plans.
  • Translate strategy into clear site-level operating plans, action plans, and performance targets.
  • Ensure strategic and operational alignment across owned and co-manufactured operations.


Manufacturing Excellence & Performance Management
  • Establish and continuously improve standard operating and performance management systems across all manufacturing and packaging operations.
  • Drive consistent use of daily management tools to set priorities, review performance, track key metrics, and solve problems.
  • Lead root cause analysis and corrective action planning to proactively address performance gaps, improve process stability, and reduce waste.
  • Foster a culture of care, operational discipline and continuous improvement using Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, and OpEx methodologies.


Safety, Health & Environment, and Quality
  • Define and execute the Safety, Health & Environmental strategy, ensuring world-class safety performance across all sites.
  • Ensure full compliance with quality, food/consumer safety, and regulatory requirements across the end-to-end value chain.
  • Serve as an executive leader in quality, operational, environmental, or social crisis management, ensuring rapid containment and sustaina

About Nestle

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014. It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33 in the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies. Nestlé's products include baby food, medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over 1 billion CHF, including Nespresso, Nescafé, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffer's, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and employs around 339,000 people. It is one of the main shareholders of L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company. Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the "Anglo-Swiss Milk Company", established in 1866 by brothers George and Charles Page, and "Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé", founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula products. The company has made a number of corporate acquisitions, including Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963, Libby's in 1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, Klim in 1998, and Gerber in 2007.
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