Food & Beverage Executive Search Firm Leadership Talent Partners

Elevating Leadership by Sourcing the Best Professionals

Food & Beverage Recruiters

As a leading food and beverage executive search firm, High Altitude Recruiting specializes in F&B executive recruiting for forward-thinking CEOs and HR leaders. We solve the industry’s #1 challenge: Identifying executives who combine technical operations expertise (supply chain, manufacturing, quality control) with strategic vision to navigate plant-based shifts and ESG demands.

Global trends are transforming the food and beverage industry at an unprecedented pace. Consumers are prioritizing ethical sourcing and plant-based alternatives, signaling a shift in market preferences. To stay ahead, businesses must invest in leadership that can adapt to change, solve industry challenges, and create strategies for success.

What makes High Altitude Recruiting different? It's our passion for understanding your company. We strive to hire teams that have longevity. It's not just checking the boxes that match the job description, it's ensuring that each hire is a culture fit.

How We Recruit

Our dedication to recruitment stems from a mission to partner organizations with the correct talen. To recruit individuals who push boundaries, overcome challenges, and leave a lasting mark on the food and beverage industry. High Altitude Recruiting is a trusted partner. Our team will deliver results by being a partner, an extension of your HR team.

High Altitude Recruiting succeeds by offering the HAP360 recruiting methodology, a fully transparent recruiting process, which includes:

DISCOVERY & STRATEGY

Our dedicated recruitment experts will assess your organization's current structure to provide you with invaluable insights to navigate your talent search effectively. This includes comprehensive analysis of fair market compensation, skill evaluation, job description refinement, and role definition.

SCREEN & REVIEW

Our search team will deliver a comprehensive report on the candidates we've identified, and we will actively engage in recruiting the top candidates for the position. Furthermore, we will furnish you with a weekly candidate brief, complete with our expert recommendations

INTERVIEWS & ANALYST

Candidates interacting with High Altitude Partners Recruiting are held to exceptional standards beyond the interview phase. The most outstanding executive candidates will receive a personalized candidate profile to showcase their unique qualities.

The HAP 360 Process: Precision-Driven F&B Executive Search

Trusted by food and beverage search firms’ most discerning clients, our methodology is acting as an extension of our clients' HR teams. With HAP 360, we provide a fully transparent recruiting tool that allows our clients to track the search from day one. You can view candidate profiles, videos, assessments, and targeted company lists.

Every candidate undergoes a thorough 3-hour interview screening process before being introduced to our clients.

Our network is our greatest asset. It fuels our outreach and, combined with proactive recruiting strategies, allows us to engage top talent—even those who aren’t actively searching.

High Altitude Recruiting makes the efforts easy for your team; we run all background checks including:

background, criminal, reference checks.

The HAP 360 Process

With over 16 years recruiting in both corporate and agency settings, High Altitude Recruiting has found what works and doesn't and approached recruitment in a different light. Our process is to fully vet candidates, conduct thorough interviews and go on all the bad dates before we present 3-5 qualified candidates. Again, through our HAP 360 software, you see every candidate, even the ones who fall just short of your requirements.

This methodology helps highlights all candidates, ensuring everyone is giving a fair interview process. Our in-depth candidate profiles include:

A reformatted resume.
A 3-5 min candidate video.
Assessment results.
Recruiter notes.
Salary information.

The HAP 360 boasts a 99% retention rate for candidates placed over a period of more than one calendar year.

Positions Filled

The food and beverage industry faces one of the most severe talent shortages across all industries. Finding executives who possess both deep industry experience and the skills to navigate the every changing landscape is a growing challenge.

At High Altitude Recruiting our team fills executive level roles in the food and beverage industry on a daily basis. We utilize our network to ensure we start each search strong.

Here are some roles we've filled in the past 18-months:

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO)
Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
Chief Manufacturing Officer (CMfO)
Chief Quality Officer (CQO)
Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)
Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)

Vice President of Operations
Vice President of Manufacturing
Vice President of Quality & Food Safety
Vice President of Supply Chain
General Manager (GM)
Director of Supply Chain
Director of Logistics & Distribution
Director of Procurement & Sourcing
Plant Manager
Warehouse & Inventory Manager

Director of Food Safety & Compliance
Director of Continuous Improvement & Lean Manufacturing
Production Manager
Quality Assurance Manager
Director of Research & Development (R&D)

Why Leading Food & Beverage Companies Partner With Our Search Firm

We genuinely care and aim to be an extension of your HR team. We invest time in understanding the intricacies of your organization. Your success is our success. Our skilled recruiters specialize in swiftly filling positions with high-quality candidates.

High Altitude Recruiting takes a strategic approach to executive recruiting, moving beyond traditional recruiting methods of post and pray. We utilize our network and headhunt. We leverage live market data, insights and assessments to identify leaders who align with your company's culture.

We offer a one-year guarantee on all hires.

How is High Altitude Recruiting Different?

We get this question daily. First, it's our industry knowledge and experience placing executives across some of the industries largest companies. Second, we understand your company, it's culture and the teams immediate needs. Third, it's our attitude to search and understanding no two searches are the same, there isn't a one fit's all approach.
What are the first 72-hours of an Executive Search like?

First, we build an enticing job description tailored to highlight your companies culture. Highlight short-term and long-term goals for the candidates, to showcase and excite them with upcoming projects. We then build a company target list, think of your competitors, this process is a team project incase you have hands-off agreements with your partners. We'll share 5 profiles of candidates who match your needs and the JD to ensure we're on the right track. We then headhunt and start scheduling interviews.