Senior Sales Manager / Sales Director
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About Profile
A senior commercial leader with 25+ years’ experience across flavors, sweeteners, nutraceuticals, vitamins, biotech, and specialty ingredients across North America. He combines strong technical credibility with proven commercial delivery, having built long-standing relationships across beverage, bakery, nutrition bars, functional foods, and nutraceutical markets.
With a background in biochemistry, finance, and marketing, he brings a rare blend of scientific understanding, commercial acumen, and hands-on business development. Throughout his career, he has consistently succeeded in commercially complex roles, building new business, expanding portfolios, and developing trusted relationships with major customers and channel partners across the US and Canada.
He has also built and led cross-functional teams spanning sales, marketing, and product management, and is equally comfortable selling into R&D, procurement, and senior executive stakeholders.
He is now exploring senior commercial leadership or strategic business development opportunities where he can bring his consultative approach, deep industry network, and growth mindset to a high-quality ingredients or nutraceutical business.
Key highlights
- 25+ years’ commercial experience across flavours, sweeteners, nutraceuticals, vitamins, biotech, and specialty ingredients
- Strong background across beverage, bakery, nutrition bars, functional foods, and nutraceutical applications
- Proven hunter with repeated success in new business development and portfolio expansion
- Built and led commercial and product teams, including sales, marketing, and product management
- Deep relationships across major North American ingredient and nutraceutical customers and channels
- Experience selling effectively into R&D, procurement, and C-suite audiences
- Strong understanding of both US and Canadian regulatory and go-to-market environments
- Multilingual: fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, with conversational French
- Dual US and Canadian citizen, offering strong cross-border market knowledge and flexibility
- Combines technical credibility with commercial leadership and a highly consultative sales approach
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