About Blue Rice
From our Horsforth office, Blue Rice provides specialist recruitment services across the United Kingdom. Our dedicated team has focused on connecting Food & Beverage, Marketing & Communications, and Sales professionals with opportunities. We pride ourselves on deep market insight to deliver impactful placements for both candidates and businesses.
BLUE RICE - FMCG Talent Selection is a recruitment company that specializes in building successful sales and marketing teams for the food and beverage sector. Their mission is to empower clients by identifying and onboarding exceptional talent tailored to the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. Founded and led by Mark Gouland, who has over a decade of experience in the food and drink market, BLUE RICE effectively attracts top-tier candidates for various recruitment needs.\n\nThe company offers a personalized search process that emphasizes consistency and precision, ensuring clients receive outstanding sales and marketing leaders. They focus on roles such as International Sales Executives and Executive Sales Managers, often providing flexibility for home working. BLUE RICE is also committed to fostering diversity and inclusion within their hiring processes, believing that diverse talent contributes to growth and innovation in the global food and drinks sector. They support recognized food and drink suppliers in competitive environments, helping them find high-caliber professionals with skills in customer relationship management, strategic thinking, and new product development.



