Leadership for critical inflection points
3P Partners provides talent to more than 200 food & beverage companies
in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand.
We support family owned and private equity backed businesses to identify the leadership required for
growth, succession and transformation.
RECENT CASE STUDIES
Chief Financial Officer for Exact Corporation
PE-backed agricultural equipment manufacturer formed through a merger. The mandate: build the finance function, integrate systems, and position the business for its next phase of growth.
VP Value Added Operations search for a 100-year-old, family-owned fresh produce business
Legacy business with 800+ employees across 9 fresh cut production and further processing sites. The mandate: scale value-added operations and optimize the national distribution network.
Chief Financial Officer Search for Superior Farms
North America’s leading domestic lamb processor: 400 employee-owners, multiple facilities, and the financial complexity of an ESOP structure. The mandate: strengthen reporting, sharpen cost accounting, and partner with the CEO as a trusted financial advisor.
What the Food & Beverage Industry is saying about us
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Career Opportunities
VP, Information Technology – Ohio
Industry: Food & Beverage
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- Report directly to the CEO and lead the enterprise-wide technology function for a large, complex manufacturing organization.
- Shape the technology roadmap to support continued growth, business transformation and future scalability.
- On-site position outside of Cleveland, OH
VP, Technical Services – California
Industry: Food & Beverage
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- Lead food safety, quality, and R&D for a large, established food manufacturer
- Partner with the COO to strengthen technical systems, drive process improvement, and build a proactive quality culture
On-site position in Merced - County, CA; $180K–$200K base salary + bonus
Director of FP&A – Remote from California
Industry: Agribusiness
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- Build the FP&A function from the ground up with direct access to the CFO.
- Shape pricing and profitability decisions across customers, products, and segments.
- Remote from California with 25% travel
Corporate Controller – California
Industry: Food Processing
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- Direct CFO partnership with broad ownership of accounting and reporting.
- High-impact mandate to improve the close, controls, systems, and processes.
- Hybrid remote from the Salinas Valley, CA, offering $180K+ base salary
Featured Research
The More AI is Used in Hiring, the More Human Judgment Matters
Recent Stanford research analyzed 4 million real job applications from 3.4 million people across 150 employers and 11 industries, finding that AI screening tools can produce demographic disparities and contribute to what they call “algorithmic monoculture.”
How Non-Family Executives Succeed in Family-Owned Companies
The biggest risk facing many successful family businesses is not capital, strategy, or market conditions. It is leadership capacity. As food and beverage companies scale, the complexity of the business often outpaces internal capabilities.
Defining Success in a Newly Created Role
Companies often rush to fill new leadership positions without agreeing on what the role is meant to achieve. That lack of clarity is one of the biggest drivers of hiring failure. This article presents a simple framework to align stakeholders before the search starts.
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