Senior VP, Strategy

MGP Ingredients is a leading supplier of premium distilled spirits and food ingredient solutions. Its Distilling Solutions segment provides bourbons, whiskeys, ryes, gins, and vodkas to craft and multinational brands. MGP's own Branded Spirts business is growing following the 2021 acquisition of Luxco, a top spirits producer, bottler, supplier, and importer as well as the 2023 acquisition of Penelope Bourbon, known for its wide range of uniquely blended expressions. Ingredient Solutions delivers nutritional, functional wheat- and pea-based ingredients aligned with consumer trends. The company operates in locations across the Midwestern U.S., and overseas in Northern Ireland and Mexico.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Senior Vice President of Strategy and Insights provide strategic leadership for both long term (3-5 year) strategy and integrated planning processes with clear vision to implement commercially focused performance management routines to drive a culture of accountability and impact.

What You Will Be Doing
Enterprise Strategic Planning & Long-Term Growth

• Lead development of the company's 3–5 year strategic plan, including market analysis, scenario planning, competitive assessments, and growth opportunity identification.
• Partner with the CEO and executive team to establish enterprise priorities, define strategic targets, and translate high-level vision into actionable roadmaps.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on long-term initiatives, ensuring strategic objectives inform annual operating plans, resource allocation, and capital investment decisions.
• Monitor external trends (category, consumer, regulatory, M&A, technology) to advise on strategic risks and emerging opportunities.

Executive Leadership, Chief of Staff to the CEO

• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic extension of the CEO, ensuring clarity of priorities, disciplined follow-through, and effective communication across the executive team.
• Manage CEO agenda, including preparation for Board meetings, ELT meetings, quarterly business reviews, and key external engagements.
• Facilitate decision-making by synthesizing complex information, providing structured recommendations, and ensuring the CEO is equipped with timely insights.
• Lead and oversee enterprise-level initiatives on behalf of the CEO, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and cross-functional contributions are well managed

Insights, Analytics & Decision Support

• Lead enterprise consumer, customer, commercial, and market insights functions to generate actionable intelligence that informs portfolio, go-to-market, and brand strategies.
• Oversee advanced analytics, forecasting, and performance measurement to enhance decision-making quality across the organization.
• Translate data into narratives and strategic implications for senior leadership and the Board

Strategy Execution & Enterprise Program Management

• Translate strategy into clear initiatives, milestones, KVD's and accountability frameworks.
• Oversee an enterprise PMO (formal or informal), ensuring strategic initiatives progress on time and deliver expected outcomes.
• Establish standard processes for initiative tracking, reporting, and executive communication; escalate risks and remove obstacles to execution.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and resourcing for enterprise priorities.

Enterprise Communication & Leadership Engagement

• Partner with CEO and Communications to shape cohesive internal and external strategic messaging.
• Drive creation of materials for Board of Directors meetings, including strategy updates, long-term planning content, competitive analysis, and major initiative reviews.
• Ensure strategy narratives and insights are clearly communicated and understood across the organization to reinforce alignment and purpose.

Who We Are Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree required in Business, Finance, Commercial Strategy, Marketing
• Master's Degree preferred in Business Administration
• Minimum of 15 years broad-based strategic and market intelligence roles
• Experience in strategic planning and execution
• Leadership roles in change management
• Expertise in data insights including both consumer and customer
• Ability to drive innovation cross functionally
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate professionally via written and verbal avenues
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to build, develop, and motivate teams
• Ability to cross-functionally collaborate
• Strong project management abilities
• Ability to participate in and facilitate group meetings
• Must be committed to continuous improvement
• Must have a strong executive presence and financial acumen
• Must be able to act on the ability to research and analyze various types of data information
• Must possess personal computer skills (Microsoft suite)

If the above speaks to you, we're excited to learn more about you At MGP, we know that our people are our greatest strength. With different perspectives and unique ways of thinking, our employees are as varied as our products. We believe that inclusivity strengthens the organization and champions a company culture that is evolving to reflect all of us. Culture results from our behaviors, our personal commitment, our curiosity, how we collaborate, and the ways we courageously share our perspectives and expect others to do the same. Each of us can make a difference by fostering thinking and actions that empower us to connect, belong and grow together.
Compensation is competitive and is commensurate with experience. MGP offers exceptional medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) Match and PTO.
All successful candidates for this position will be required to submit to a criminal background check and drug test.