Archived listing. The details below describe a past opening.
The Role
We are entering an important generational chapter. The Chief Operating Officer role exists to ensure a strong leadership transition while helping the company continue to outperform in an increasingly complex and fast-changing beverage distribution environment across the NYC metro area and beyond.
The business today is operating effectively and at scale. The opportunity ahead is to look over the horizon and introduce new initiatives, ways of working, and strategic clarity that will allow our company to win at an even faster rate in the years ahead. The COO will assume the full scope previously held by the last employee and serve as the senior operating leader of the enterprise. This leader will help define what must be different to succeed long term, align the organization around that vision, and ensure the annual profit plan is developed, delivered, and grown with discipline. This is not a corporate COO role. It is an ownership-minded operator role.
Reporting Structure
The COO reports into a three-person leadership group
Core Responsibilities
- Develop, deliver, and grow the annual profit plan with full P&L accountability
- Own enterprise-wide operations including commercial functions, logistics, warehouse and delivery, and key enabling functions such as finance, technology, human resources, and legal
- Lead, develop, and strengthen the senior leadership team, including succession planning
- Author a clear strategic game plan that positions our company to win in the evolving beverage distribution landscape in NYC and beyond
- Translate strategic priorities into focused, executable operating plans
- Partner closely with ownership on long-term initiatives and capital allocation decisions
- Support the upcoming CFO transition and co-author the 2027 Annual Operating Plan
- Serve as a unifying leader across functions, ensuring alignment without slowing the business down
- Be highly visible, credible, and trusted with frontline teams across the organization
What Success Looks Like in the First 12–18 Months
- Effective transition of responsibilities from Ed with continuity and stability
- A clearly articulated operating vision for the next phase of the business
- Consistent delivery of profit targets
- Strong leadership bench with clear succession depth
- Ownership confident they have the right long-term operating leader in place
Ideal Background
- CPG experience required; beverage strongly preferred; beer industry experience ideal
- Demonstrated history of P&L ownership and profit growth
- Senior operations leadership experience in complex, labor-intensive environments
- Experience working in family-owned or privately held businesses strongly preferred
- Credibility leading blue-collar, frontline workforces
- Strategic, forward-looking thinker who remains highly practical and hands-on
- Willingness to live and work full time in the NYC Metro area