FOR EXPERTS
Proven Professionals is building a curated network of senior food and drink experts who have built, led or transformed businesses — and delivered measurable commercial results.
If your experience can help brands make better decisions, move faster and grow with confidence, we’d like to hear from you.
Apply to joinBUILT
You have held senior roles or delivered meaningful results in food and drink businesses.
LED
You understand commercial, operational, customer or people challenges from real experience.
TRANSFORMED
You have helped businesses improve performance, unlock growth or navigate change.
The network is built for experienced professionals who can bring practical judgement, commercial clarity and hands-on support to ambitious food and drink businesses.
Sales, marketing, category, account management and route-to-market leaders with proven experience delivering growth.
Supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, technical, quality and operational experts who can solve practical business challenges.
Experienced operators who can support founders and leadership teams with clarity, structure and commercial decision-making.
Leaders who have helped businesses improve performance, prepare for investment, integrate change or unlock stronger outcomes.
Different brands need different expertise. We match experts to the specific challenge, not a generic job title.
Commercial strategy
Customer and channel growth
Marketing and customer acquisition
Routes to market
NPD and product launch
Leadership and people
Financial performance
AI and data for commercial impact
Operations, supply chain and fulfilment
Investment readiness and transformation
If your expertise does not fit neatly into one area, that is fine. Food and drink businesses rarely fit into one box.
This is not about being listed in a directory. It is about being matched to the right opportunities where your experience can genuinely help.
Be introduced to brands where your experience is genuinely relevant to the challenge they are facing.
Support ambitious businesses with advice, mentoring, leadership or specialist expertise that can make a measurable difference.
Join a selective group of proven food and drink professionals, built around credibility, judgement and real-world experience.
A simple process to understand your experience, assess fit and identify where you could add value.
Tell us about your background, areas of expertise and the type of support you are best placed to provide.
We look for relevant food and drink experience, evidence of impact and a practical fit with the network.
We speak with you to understand your strengths, preferred work style and where your experience could be most valuable.
If there is a good fit, we include you in the curated Proven Professionals network.
When a relevant brand challenge arises, we introduce you where your experience is genuinely aligned.
Proven Professionals is not a job board, a recruitment agency or an open consultant directory.
We do not list every expert who applies.
We do not introduce people simply because they are available.
We do not treat every challenge as a generic consultancy brief.
We build trusted matches between proven experts and the businesses that need their experience.
Tell us about your experience, areas of expertise and the kind of food and drink businesses you are best placed to support.
