[Hiring] Associate Vice President, Manufacturing @Campbell's

Role Description

The Associate Vice President, Manufacturing – Fresh Bakery provides strategic and operational leadership for Campbell’s Fresh Bakery manufacturing network, including bakery operations in Bloomfield, Connecticut; Downers Grove, Illinois; Lakeland, Florida; and Denver, Pennsylvania. This leader establishes the manufacturing strategy, operating priorities, performance expectations, and transformation agenda for the network, ensuring consistent execution across safety, quality, service, cost, reliability, productivity, and people.

Leading through the Plant Managers, the AVP creates alignment across sites while maintaining clear site-level accountability for day-to-day operations and results. The role builds manufacturing capability and organizational talent across the network, identifies and addresses systemic performance opportunities, and drives continuous improvement and transformation to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the Fresh Bakery business.

This leader partners across Supply Chain and the broader organization to align manufacturing strategy, capabilities, capacity, capital priorities, and resources with business needs. The incumbent must be an enterprise-minded business partner who creates direction, enables effective decisions, builds talent and culture, drives disciplined execution, and owns results across the network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• Fresh Bakery manufacturing experience strongly preferred
• 15+ years of progressive manufacturing/operations experience
• Prior experience as a Plant Manager, General Manager, Director of Site Operations, or comparable senior manufacturing leader
• Significant people leadership experience, including leadership of senior operational leaders
• Demonstrated manufacturing leadership experience
• Multi-site leadership experience, likely something I'd make required or strongly preferred

Requirements

• Multi-site manufacturing leadership experience, including leadership through Plant Managers or comparable senior site leaders.
• Experience in food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods (CPG) within a complex, high-volume manufacturing network.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale manufacturing transformation and operational excellence, with a track record of driving sustainable improvements in safety, quality, service, cost, reliability, and productivity.
• Experience applying Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), reliability, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies at scale.
• Experience developing manufacturing network strategy, including capacity, asset utilization, capital investment, and long-term capability planning.
• Demonstrated experience developing senior manufacturing leaders and building succession and bench strength across multiple operations.
• Experience managing significant operating budgets, productivity commitments, capital investments, and/or P&L responsibility.
• Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to work across Planning, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, Procurement, Finance, Commercial, R&D, and People & Culture to deliver business outcomes.
• Advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field preferred.

Benefits

• Benefits begin on day one and include medical, dental, short and long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners).
• Employees are eligible for our matching 401(k) plan and can enroll on the first day of employment with immediate vesting.
• Campbell’s offers unlimited sick time along with paid time off and holiday pay.
• If in WHQ – free access to the fitness center. Access to on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons) and company store.
• Giving back to the communities where our employees work and live is very important to Campbell’s. Our “Campbell’s Cares” program matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually.
• Campbell’s has a variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support employees.

Physical Requirements

This role requires regular work in manufacturing environments and a visible presence across bakery facilities, including walking, standing, climbing stairs, and accessing production, warehouse, and office areas. The incumbent must be able to wear required personal protective equipment and work a flexible schedule as business needs require.

Travel

This role requires at least 75% travel, primarily to Campbell’s Fresh Bakery manufacturing sites and Headquarters. Regular and sustained on-site presence is expected to provide visible leadership, build strong partnerships with Plant Managers and site leadership teams, understand operating conditions firsthand, and support execution of manufacturing priorities and transformation initiatives.

Compensation and Benefits

The target base salary range for this full-time, salaried position is between $221,500-$304,600. Individual base pay depends on work location and additional factors such as experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training. Total pay may include other forms of compensation. In addition, we offer competitive health, dental, 401k and wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Partner for more information about our total rewards package.