Eggs Unlimited

Global shell eggs supplier and logistics

Vice President of Human Resources

HR Generalist & Employee RelationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeIrvine, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

At least 12 years of progressive Human Resources, People Operations, Talent, or related leadership experience, including experience leading a full People function.
Experience overseeing both HR and Talent functions, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, employee relations, people operations, compliance, culture, and leadership development.
Demonstrated ability to serve as a strategic business partner to a CEO, executive team, or senior business leaders.
Experience building scalable people strategies, systems, processes, and leadership practices in a growth-oriented organization.
Experience with organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, leadership development, change management, and talent management.
Ability to lead, coach, and hold accountable HR and Talent professionals at multiple levels.
Strong business judgment, executive communication, discretion, integrity, and ability to balance employee considerations, culture, growth needs, operational realities, and employment risk.
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, or a related field is preferred.
SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or comparable senior-level HR certification is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Align people strategy, organizational priorities, and workforce investment with commercial goals, customers, revenue growth, profitability, and execution.
Partner with executive, sales, commercial, operations, and functional leaders to build leadership, attract and retain talent, and scale organizational capability.
Build people infrastructure ahead of expansion, including new markets, business lines, acquisitions, major headcount growth, the Philippines team, and increasing operational complexity.
Bring business aggression, competitive intensity, and urgency to the People function while favoring practical, business-enabling solutions over unnecessary bureaucracy.
Use workforce, performance, and business data to guide decisions, manage risk, measure progress, and move issues through resolution.
Lead organizational design, workforce planning, leadership development, succession planning, and talent-management strategies across the company.
Help lead succession planning for key leadership and business-critical roles, including successors, readiness assessments, development milestones, owners, timelines, and risk reporting.
Coach leaders to build high-performing, results-oriented teams with clear accountability, measurable performance expectations, and timely action on performance concerns.
Oversee Talent Acquisition and Talent Development as an integrated system connected to hiring, onboarding, performance, retention, promotion, and future leadership needs.
Reinforce a culture built on company values, business results, and the 10 EU Mindsets.
Serve as a visible steward of culture and leadership, ensuring leaders model the EU Mindsets in communication, decision-making, team leadership, performance, hiring, development, and day-to-day execution.
Set strategy for recognition, engagement, employee communication, company events, and culture-building initiatives that strengthen trust, accountability, retention, and business performance.
Balance high standards, urgency, and measurable results with respect, transparency, recognition, employee engagement, and care for employees.
Lead people aspects of M&A, including HR due diligence, organizational and leadership assessment, critical-talent and culture risks, communication, retention, and change management.
Execute post-acquisition integration across leadership, structure, communication, culture, systems, talent, and operating practices on time while maintaining business continuity.
Partner with executive leadership, Finance, Legal, and business operators to evaluate people-related risks, costs, leadership needs, retention concerns, integration priorities, and post-close operating requirements.
Travel occasionally based on business needs, including domestic travel and international travel to the Philippines.
Lead complex employee relations, investigations, conflict resolution, performance actions, and employment-risk matters in partnership with Legal and leadership.
Lead and develop the broader People team while overseeing payroll, benefits, onboarding, HR systems, policies, compliance, metrics, and controls without owning routine transactions.
Ensure the People function operates with urgency, accountability, discretion, practical judgment, and the ability to take issues through resolution.

Desired Qualifications

Meaningful exposure to M&A, post-acquisition integration, due diligence, workforce integration, or culture integration.
Prior experience as a VP of People, Head of People, Chief People Officer, senior People leader, or equivalent executive HR/Talent leadership role.
Experience leading People strategy during aggressive company growth, rapid scaling, acquisition activity, or major organizational transition.
Direct experience integrating acquired teams, aligning cultures, retaining key talent, and building trust through post-acquisition change.
Experience in a high-growth, entrepreneurial, founder-led, private equity-backed, or operationally intensive business environment.
Experience in food, distribution, logistics, trading, supply chain, manufacturing, or another operationally complex industry.

About Eggs Unlimited
Eggs Unlimited is one of the world’s largest suppliers of eggs, serving leading retailers and food manufacturers around the globe. We operate the largest egg trading floor in the United States, trading hundreds of truckloads each week. Our world-class support teams manage an extensive network of farms, warehousing channels, supply-chain partners, and customers, ensuring consistently superior service levels.

In 2019, Eggs Unlimited revolutionized the egg industry and the way customers are supported by combining market intelligence, supply-chain planning, commodity expertise, and exceptional service within one organization.

Commodity trading and complex supply-chain management require us to perform at the highest level every day. Our customers include some of the largest retailers in the world, and they rely on our team to understand their businesses, anticipate their needs, solve problems quickly, and execute with speed and accuracy.
We set high expectations for every member of our team. Employees are expected to become experts within their departments, take ownership of their responsibilities, continuously improve our processes and systems, and contribute to the company’s future growth.

Eggs Unlimited continues to scale aggressively. We are growing our existing business, expanding into new commodities, and remaining highly focused on mergers and acquisitions. While many companies are downsizing, we are investing in our people, infrastructure, technology, and long-term growth.

As a high-performing organization, we look for A-players who are comfortable working in a fast-paced, demanding trading environment. Successful team members demonstrate accountability, resilience, initiative, and the ability to manage a high volume of work without compromising accuracy or quality.

We believe in developing our people as deliberately as we develop our business. We recognize excellence, encourage employees to exceed expectations in their current positions, and create opportunities for high performers to grow and advance throughout the company.

If you believe in hard work, accountability, recognition, success, and growth, and you consistently perform at a high level, join us as we build the largest food trading company in the world.

Job Summary:
Eggs Unlimited is seeking a strategic, business-minded Vice President of People to lead the full People function through a period of aggressive growth, increasing organizational complexity, and continued expansion. This executive-level leader will oversee Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, culture, and the broader employee experience, ensuring Eggs Unlimited has the talent, leadership, structure, systems, and culture needed for its next stage of growth.
The VP of People will serve as a true business partner and senior advisor to the CEO, executive team, and business leaders on people strategy, organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, culture, leadership, change management, and M&A support. This leader will oversee and develop the broader People organization, ensuring the right structure, capabilities, and accountability are in place to support the business.

The VP of People will set the vision, operating model, priorities, standards, and accountability for the People function while staying close to the most strategic, sensitive, and business-critical people matters.

As a culture and leadership steward, this person will champion the 10 EU Mindsets and help preserve what makes Eggs Unlimited strong while intentionally shaping the leadership behaviors, employee experience, and scalable people practices required through aggressive growth, transition, and potential acquisitions.

Core Responsibilities:

People Strategy, Business Partnership & Growth

Align people strategy, organizational priorities, and workforce investment with commercial goals, customers, revenue growth, profitability, and execution.
Partner closely with executive, sales, commercial, operations, and functional leaders to build exceptional leadership, attract and retain top talent, and scale organizational capability.
Build people infrastructure ahead of aggressive expansion, including new markets, business lines, acquisitions, major headcount growth, the Philippines team, and increasing operational complexity.
Bring appropriate business aggression, competitive intensity, and urgency to the People function while favoring practical, business-enabling solutions over unnecessary bureaucracy.
Use workforce, performance, and business data to guide decisions, manage risk, measure progress, and move issues through resolution.

Leadership, Talent & Succession Planning

Lead organizational design, workforce planning, leadership development, succession planning, and talent-management strategies across the company.
Help lead succession planning for key leadership and business-critical roles, including successors, readiness assessments, development milestones, owners, timelines, and risk reporting.
Coach leaders to build high-performing, results-oriented teams with clear accountability, measurable performance expectations, and timely action on performance concerns.
Oversee Talent Acquisition and Talent Development as one integrated system connected to hiring, onboarding, performance, retention, promotion, and future leadership needs.

Culture Stewardship, Engagement & Change Leadership

Reinforce a culture built on strong values, exceptional business results, and the 10 EU Mindsets.
Serve as a visible steward of culture and leadership, ensuring leaders model the EU Mindsets in communication, decision-making, team leadership, performance, hiring, development, and day-to-day execution.
Set strategy for recognition, engagement, employee communication, company events, and culture-building initiatives that strengthen trust, accountability, retention, and business performance.
Balance high standards, urgency, and measurable results with respect, transparency, recognition, employee engagement, and genuine care for employees.

M&A, Integration & Growth Enablement

Lead the people aspects of M&A, including HR due diligence, organizational and leadership assessment, critical-talent and culture risks, communication, retention, and change management.
Execute post-acquisition integration across leadership, structure, communication, culture, systems, talent, and operating practices on time while maintaining business continuity.
Partner with executive leadership, Finance, Legal, and business operators to evaluate people-related risks, costs, leadership needs, retention concerns, integration priorities, and post-close operating requirements.
Travel occasionally based on business needs, including domestic travel and international travel to the Philippines.

Employee Relations, People Operations & HR Leadership

Lead complex employee relations, investigations, conflict resolution, performance actions, and employment-risk matters in partnership with Legal and leadership.
Lead and develop the broader People team while overseeing payroll, benefits, onboarding, HR systems, policies, compliance, metrics, and controls without owning routine transactions.
Ensure the People function operates with urgency, accountability, discretion, practical judgment, and the ability to take issues through resolution.

Qualifications:

12+ years of progressive Human Resources, People Operations, Talent, or related leadership experience, including experience leading a full People function.
Experience overseeing both HR and Talent functions, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, employee relations, people operations, compliance, culture, and leadership development.
Demonstrated ability to serve as a strategic business partner to a CEO, executive team, or senior business leaders.
Experience building scalable people strategies, systems, processes, and leadership practices in a growth-oriented organization.
Experience with organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, leadership development, change management, and talent management.
Meaningful exposure to M&A, post-acquisition integration, due diligence, workforce integration, or culture integration strongly preferred.
Proven ability to lead, coach, and hold accountable HR and Talent professionals at multiple levels.
Strong business judgment, executive communication, discretion, integrity, and ability to balance employee considerations, culture, growth needs, operational realities, and employment risk.
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, or a related field preferred.

Strongly Preferred:

Prior experience as a VP of People, Head of People, Chief People Officer, senior People leader, or equivalent executive HR/Talent leadership role.
Experience leading People strategy during aggressive company growth, rapid scaling, acquisition activity, or major organizational transition.
Direct experience integrating acquired teams, aligning cultures, retaining key talent, and building trust through post-acquisition change.
Experience in a high-growth, entrepreneurial, founder-led, private equity-backed, or operationally intensive business environment.
Experience in food, distribution, logistics, trading, supply chain, manufacturing, or another operationally complex industry.
SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or comparable senior-level HR certification.

Why Eggs Unlimited:

Join at the “second floor” of a hyper-growth company rapidly becoming a skyscraper – help build what comes next.
Outsized impact opportunity – building people, leadership, culture, & support continued expansion.
Partner closely with executive leadership to shape growth, talent, succession, culture, and organizational scale.
Help shape the people strategy of an entrepreneurial company growing aggressively.
Access meaningful advancement opportunities as the company continues to expand.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Company-paid life and disability insurance.
401(k) with company match.
Generous PTO that increases annually.
Free daily lunch, snacks, and refreshments
Base Pay: $225,000 - $300,000 annually

About the Company

Eggs Unlimited

Global shell eggs supplier and logistics

Eggs Unlimited connects egg producers with large buyers globally, handling sourcing, logistics, and transactions for shell eggs and egg products across spot loads and long-term contracts. It provides market intelligence to help customers understand trends and pricing, supporting purchasing decisions and advertising. For producers, it spots surplus supply and creates new sales opportunities, while its logistics team ensures timely delivery and competitive shipping rates. The company differentiates itself with family-led leadership, strong customer service and transparency, and a turnkey service that combines sourcing, market insights, and logistics into one integrated platform.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Stockholm, ME
Founded: 2019

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