Teams at Smithfield Foods

Leads production employees and oversees daily manufacturing operations, including safety, USDA and HACCP compliance, product quality, yields, efficiency, equipment setup, and routine maintenance. Trains, coaches, and motivates staff; tracks production metrics and variances; identifies continuous-improvement opportunities; and ensures production goals are met while minimizing downtime and costs. The role requires working in challenging plant conditions, including heat, cold, noise, chemicals, and moving mechanical equipment.

Leads Smithfield’s talent acquisition function, managing recruiting teams and full-cycle hiring across departments and locations. Develops scalable sourcing, workforce planning, employer branding, university and professional partnerships, and veteran hiring initiatives. Partners with executives and hiring managers, ensures employment-law compliance, improves candidate experience and recruiting processes, and uses ATS analytics and hiring metrics to optimize performance, reduce time-to-fill, and strengthen talent pipelines.

Leads digital commerce, eCommerce, social commerce, shoppable media, and digital marketing strategies to drive conversion and growth. Optimizes SEO, product content, paid search, customer segmentation, email marketing, and marketing journeys. Manages marketing technology deployment, compliance, system integration, budgets, contracts, vendors, and cross-functional partnerships while improving user experience. Provides team leadership, coaching, and development.