AVP / Head of Seafood Operations

Optional executive layer

Career Explorer · Hospitality, Food & Agricultural Operations · Seafood Operations Management

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Optional executive layer

What the role involves

Autonomy: Major function / geography
Scope: Major function / geography
Time horizon: 2-4 years
Expertise and judgement: Translates enterprise strategy into a major operating domain
Expected impact: Strategic outcomes across a major domain

Expected skills (23)

Grouped as human, professional and technical. Target proficiency uses the P1–P5 scale, and each row says what that level means for that particular skill.

Human (14)

Skill	Importance	Target	What that level looks like
Coaching Collaboration & Leadership	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Decision making Thinking & Judgment	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Delegation Collaboration & Leadership	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Executive communication Communication & Influence	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Feedback delivery Collaboration & Leadership	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Risk judgment Thinking & Judgment	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Stakeholder management Communication & Influence	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Strategic thinking Thinking & Judgment	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Talent development Collaboration & Leadership	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Conflict resolution Communication & Influence	Supporting	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Inclusive leadership Collaboration & Leadership	Supporting	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Operational discipline Operational Human Skills	Supporting	P4	Models and institutionalizes Operational discipline across teams.
Quality mindset Operational Human Skills	Supporting	P4	Models and institutionalizes Quality mindset across teams.
Safety-first judgment Operational Human Skills	Supporting	P4	Models and institutionalizes Safety-first judgment across teams.

Professional (9)

Skill	Importance	Target	What that level looks like
Business acumen Business & Strategy	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Financial acumen Business & Strategy	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Performance management Business & Strategy	Core	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.
Food sanitation Food & Agriculture	Supporting	P4	Sets cross-team standards and governance for Food sanitation, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs.
Food traceability Food & Agriculture	Supporting	P4	Sets cross-team standards and governance for Food traceability, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs.
Guest relations Hospitality	Supporting	P4	Sets cross-team standards and governance for Guest relations, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs.
HACCP Food & Agriculture	Supporting	P4	Sets cross-team standards and governance for HACCP, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs.
Hospitality service recovery Hospitality	Supporting	P4	Sets cross-team standards and governance for Hospitality service recovery, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs.
Resource management Program, Risk & Sustainability	Supporting	P4	Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems.

Career ladder

Reached from

Senior Director, Seafood OperationsM4

Next steps

Vice President, Seafood OperationsM6Management promotion
Move from major-domain leadership to VP enterprise scope; shape company-level strategy, capital allocation, organization design and external commitments.

People management requires sustained evidence of coaching, performance management, staffing judgment and organizational leadership - not simply greater individual expertise.

What changes to advance

Move from major-domain leadership to VP enterprise scope; shape company-level strategy, capital allocation, organization design and external commitments.

Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; SFIA; PMI · MF348-M5