Managing Director

The Managing Director serves as the senior leader of Molinos Champion , accountable for shaping and delivering the company’s long-term strategic direction, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.

This role combines enterprise leadership with hands-on execution, driving performance across a complex, large-scale animal nutrition and protein production business, The MD will also lead a significant, multi-million-dollar transformation of the protein production platform, ensuring the business is positioned for long-term competitiveness, efficiency, and growth.

Success in this role requires the ability to balance strategy and execution, operate effectively in a dynamic and emerging market environment, and foster a culture rooted in accountability, safety, innovation, and integrity within a multi-national corporate environment and reporting structure.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Strategy & Business Performance Define and execute the business strategy, driving sustainable growth, profitability, and financial performance.
• Operational Excellence & Supply Chain Leadership Lead end-to-end operations and supply chain, ensuring efficiency, reliability, quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Commercial & Market Leadership Drive commercial strategy, market growth, customer relationships, pricing, and product development.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance Ensure strong corporate governance, compliance, internal controls, and effective management of business risks.
• People Leadership & Organizational Capability Build a high-performing leadership team and strengthen organizational capability, succession, and culture.
• Stakeholder & External Relations Represent the company and develop strategic relationships with key external stakeholders.
• Capital Projects & Business Expansion Lead strategic CAPEX, modernization, and expansion initiatives to strengthen long-term business competitiveness.

Requisitos

Who are we looking for?

• 15+ years of senior leadership experience in animal nutrition, protein production, food manufacturing, or agribusiness.
• Proven leadership of large-scale, complex operations and cross-functional teams.
• Strong experience in CAPEX, expansion, modernization, and operational transformation.
• Solid financial and commercial acumen, with a track record of driving profitability and growth.
• Strong stakeholder management, including Boards, government entities, regulators, and strategic partners.
• Experience in multinational and emerging-market environments; Ecuador experience highly valued.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.

Molinos Champion has been operating in Ecuador for over 63 years, under the international standards of our parent company, Seaboard Overseas & Trading Group. We operate through three core business units Animal Nutrition – Livestock, Animal Nutrition – Aquaculture, and Pork Production & Commercialization.

We are one of Ecuador’s most established companies in the animal feed industry.

We are a leading pork producer in Ecuador, recognized for delivering premium-quality products.

We are pioneers in animal nutrition technology, continuously driving innovation and efficiency.

Our flexible production capabilities allow us to serve small, medium-sized, and large customers effectively.

We are a highly committed team focused on the sustainable production and commercialization of reliable, high-quality nutrition and protein solutions.