Senior Manager, R&D

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership
• Develop and execute R&D strategies that support manufacturing excellence, product quality, and business growth.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to improve operational performance across the manufacturing network.
• Serve as a key technical advisor to Operations and Executive Leadership on manufacturing, commercialization, and quality initiatives.
• Establish long-term roadmaps for process improvement, capability development, and technical innovation.
• Team Leadership and Development
• Lead, coach, and develop a growing R&D team, fostering accountability, technical excellence, and career growth.
• Establish team priorities and allocate resources to support business objectives.
• Build organizational capability through mentoring, talent development, and succession planning.
• Create systems and processes that improve team effectiveness and project execution.
• Commercialization and Manufacturing Excellence
• Lead commercialization efforts from concept through full-scale production.
• Oversee complex plant trials, scale-ups, and process validations across multiple manufacturing locations.
• Ensure new products and process changes are successfully integrated into manufacturing operations.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain teams to improve launch readiness and execution.
• Manufacturing Support and Continuous Improvement
• Provide technical leadership and support for manufacturing and co-manufacturing partners.
• Lead root cause investigations and resolution of significant quality, process, and operational challenges.
• Drive initiatives focused on improving yield, throughput, labor efficiency, and overall equipment performance.
• Develop scalable solutions that improve consistency across manufacturing sites.
• Quality, Cost, and Performance Optimization
• Lead initiatives to improve product quality, consistency, and consumer experience.
• Identify and implement opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining product integrity.
• Use data, plant performance metrics, and consumer feedback to prioritize improve

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