Global food ingredient manufacturer across chocolate, bakery, nuts, and gelato
IRCA Group operates a multi-brand, multi-category food ingredient business across 20 production facilities worldwide, serving manufacturers and artisans in over 100 countries. The tech stack reflects a traditional manufacturing enterprise — SAP, Infor M3, Oracle, and SQL dominate operations — with recent adoption of Salesforce CPQ and Pentaho signaling a shift toward data-driven sales and analytics. Active hiring concentrates on manufacturing roles (24 of 73 open positions), with secondary focus on sales and operations, indicating heavy investment in production capacity and commercial execution rather than software or engineering maturity.
Notable leadership hires: Production Team Lead
IRCA Group is an Italian food ingredient company founded in 1919, operating as a publicly listed enterprise with over 2,100 employees across manufacturing, sales, and logistics. The company manufactures and sells chocolate, creams, pistachios and nuts, pastry and bakery, and gelato solutions through six brands: IRCA, Joygelato, Dobla, Cesarin, Ravifruit, and Domori Professional. Production spans 20 facilities globally, with commercial presence across Italy, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Germany, France, United States, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, and Peru. Active projects center on ERP modernization (new MRP implementation), plant commissioning and production line optimization, regional market development (Indonesia commercial strategy), and operational efficiency (reducing waste and emergency repairs). Key challenges include food manufacturing compliance, equipment downtime, waste reduction, and leveraging new product development across regional markets.
IRCA Group operates on SAP, Infor M3, Oracle, and SQL as core platforms, with supplementary tools including SAP HANA, Power BI, Salesforce, and Azure. Recently adopting Pentaho and Salesforce CPQ.
Gallarate, Lombardia, Italy. Founded in 1919, the company operates 20 production facilities worldwide and employs over 2,100 people.
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