Chief of Staff to CEO

About the Company

Hairoad Food is a China-based manufacturer of bakery and food ingredients, with plants in China and India supplying customers worldwide. We are now setting up our a new plant in Brazil — and we are hiring Chief of staff to CEO, who will suppot CEO -Brazil, making it happen from the ground up.

About the Role

Our Brazil plant is in its build-out phase. This Chief of Staff role sits right at that centre — working directly with our CEO, and serving as the bridge between our China team and our Brazil team. This is a genuinely bilingual job. You'll work with our headquarters in Chinese, and with our local teams, customers and authorities in English and Portuguese.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO on day-to-day operations of the plant build-out and ramp-up
• Coordinate across departments, and turn decisions into results
• Drive market, competitor and customer research across Brazil and Latin America
• Prepare bilingual reports and analysis for both the CEO and HQ
• Act as the first point of contact for local partners, suppliers and authorities
• Help build the local team: recruiting, onboarding and internal communication
• Support the localisation of group policies, systems and ways of working

Required Skills

• Chinese and English at business-fluent level — you'll use both every day
• Professional working Portuguese is a strong plus
• Based in Brazil, or ready to relocate and settle there for the long term
• Comfortable with ambiguity, and with being the bridge between two very different worlds
• Able to work long hours during the build-out phase, and stay calm when priorities shift

Preferred Skills

• Experience in food manufacturing, bakery ingredients or FMCG
• An established local business network
• Prior experience in a start-up, market-entry or overseas expansion role
• Mandarin, Spanish or Portuguese beyond the above

Pay range and compensation package

Not specified.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Not specified.