Senior Consultant F&B

Are you looking to lead the growth of Food & Beverage services in an innovative, digitally enabled, purpose driven business? Are you motivated to support customers to achieve business success and sustainability in their businesses and their extended supply chains?

We’re recruiting for a growth focused Senior Consultant with proven seller-doer consulting experience in the domain of Food and Beverage to join our Assessment & Assurance team in Italy based in Milan or in one of the other Italian Offices.

This is an exciting opportunity to take a senior role to achieve growth as a seller doer, lead the delivery of projects, ensure service excellence for clients and play an important role in development of others within the team. We help clients implement, improve and demonstrate their commitment and progress towards authentic sustainability.

In this role, you will get the opportunity to engage and get supported by a wide network of experienced F&B leaders and be part of an expansion plan in the F&B sector starting from a solid base, but with countless opportunities to shape the business that will provide a launching path for your career.

When doing this, you will get the opportunity to engage with many of the leading companies and brands across a wide range of sectors and to leverage a suite of services and digital technologies to scope sell and deliver innovative solutions.

Key Accountabilities:

You will be expected to lead the growth of our sales and delivery for a range of F&B industry services and may have specialism and expertise in several of them, including:

• Management consulting in Supply Chain Management and Operations
• Digital Supply Chain Management
• Suppliers’ inspection and verification
• Compliance to customer’s own protocols
• Execution or risk mitigation check lists
• Social audits and CSR reports
• Health, Safety and Environment standard
• Sustainability and digital solutions

You will be expected to make proposals, win projects and lead project teams as well as helping to grow our business through the following activities:

• Prepare taylor-made analysis, presentations and reports.
• Proactively seeking to identify customer needs, developing tailored solutions and selling these to new and existing clients.
• Directing projects, ensuring they are executed to clients’ expectations, on time, on budget and to DNV quality standards.
• Leading and communicating effectively with your project teams and clients.
• Introducing services from your own/ existing discipline(s) to new clients and new services to existing clients.
• Writing thought leadership for the team to be published internally and externally and speaking publicly to generate the correct profile and market engagement in Italy

This role will also have an active participation in developing the go to market activities for F&B supply chain, assurance, sustainability strategy and risk management services. Please note that this is not a role selling F&B food safety certification.

• Proven track record in sales and business development of F&B services, ideally within a consultancy environment.
• Proven track record of leading & delivering consulting services as a trusted advisor and thought leader for clients.
• Digital Assurance including digitally enabled supply chain solutions for transparency, track and trace knowledge.
• Analytical and engineering mindset.
• Academic qualifications relevant to performance improvement and sustainability subject areas.
• Proven project and/or team leader, delivering service excellence.
• Able to clearly delegate tasks and provide sufficient guidance, support and feedback on performance to Consultants.
• Able to line manage Consultants and provide coaching and development.
• Willingness to travel and work around Italy and the South Europe region and on occasions overseas.
• Fluency in English and Italian is a prerequisite.

Our offer:

We are offering a challenging, varied and responsible job in a dynamic and international environment. You will have plenty of opportunities for personal growth, according to our 70-20-10 philosophy: 70% learning on the job, 20% coaching and 10% training. Naturally, the position is rewarded appropriately, including attractive fringe benefits and incentive scheme.

DNV is the independent expert in assurance and risk management, operating in more than 100 countries. Through our broad experience and deep expertise we advance safety and sustainable performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions.

We are one of the world’s leading certification, assurance and risk management providers. Whether certifying a company’s management system or products, providing training, or assessing supply chains, and digital assets, we enable customers and stakeholders to make critical decisions with confidence. We are committed to support our customers to transition and realize their long-term strategic goals sustainably, and collectively contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity!