Senior Director, Category Leadership
ChompsAbout the role
Who We Are
Chomps is America’s fastest-growing meat snack brand, redefining convenient snacking with a commitment to real ingredients and bold, satisfying flavors. Crafted from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef and venison, along with antibiotic-free turkey and chicken, each Chomps meat stick delivers 10+ grams of high-quality protein without sugar, hormones, soy, dairy, artificial preservatives, artificial nitrates, or MSG. Seasoned with a blend of flavorful herbs and spices, Chomps provides a nutritious protein snack for the whole family. As a minority-owned, family-operated, and B Corporation-certified business, Chomps prioritizes thoughtful sourcing and recently earned the non–ultra-processed food certification through the non-GMO project. Discover a new standard in snacking at www.chomps.com.
Traits of a Chompian
If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
*Accepting applications from 6/19 - 6/26/2026
What You Will Do
The Sr. Director, Category Leadership will shape the next chapter of growth for one of the fastest-growing brands in better-for-you snacking. This highly strategic, commercially influential leader will define Chomps’ long-term category leadership vision, own the category growth agenda, and translate syndicated, household, loyalty, shopper, and retailer data into clear recommendations that influence Sales, Marketing, Innovation, RGM, and executive decision-making. They will build the annual Category Growth Story, identify whitespace opportunities, develop a sharp competitive POV, and help Chomps win with retailers through compelling, data-backed stories.
This role is ideal for a senior category leader who is both a builder and an operator — someone who can serve as an executive-level category spokesperson with top retailers while also scaling Chomps’ internal category management capability. The right candidate brings deep CPG category expertise, strong retailer storytelling skills, functional depth across syndicated, retailer, household, and shopper data platforms, and experience across assortment, space, shelf strategy, and shopper insights. Most importantly, they know how to turn analysis into action, build trusted partnerships, develop high-performing teams, and help a high-growth brand make smarter category-driven decisions.
Responsibilities:
Category Strategy & Insights
- Define and execute Chomps’ long-term category leadership vision, operating model, and role with customers across channels.
- Own Chomps’ category growth strategy — annual Category Growth Story, competitive POV, whitespace identification — and ensure it actively drives commercial decisions across Sales, Marketing, and Innovation.
- Translate syndicated, panel, loyalty, and retailer data into growth recommendations that are specific, actionable, and commercially grounded.
- Serve as the internal SME on category performance, shopper behavior, and competitive dynamics.
Retailer-Facing Category Leadership
- Partner with Sales Leadership to develop customer-specific growth strategies, category-based selling stories, and retailer-ready recommendations.
- Serve as Chomps’ executive-level category voice with top retailers and strategic partners, establishing the brand as a trusted ca
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