Senior Director, Category Leadership

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. *Accepting applications from 6/19 - 6/26/2026

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 category advisor through compelling, data-backed growth strategies.
• Drive assortment optimization, space management, shelf strategy, and category growth recommendations that build merchant credibility and deliver measurable category impact.
• Assortment, Space & Commercial Growth
• Own enterprise shelf strategy and space management recommendations - planogram logic, SKU rationalization, incrementality framing, and secondary placement leveraging a mix of consumption insights, household data and/or primary consumer research.
• Partner with Sales and Revenue Growth Management (RGM) to identify and unlock category, distribution, velocity, and share growth opportunities across priority customers and channels.
• Own priority SKU ranking for annual planning process in collaboration with RGM.
• Influence annual planning and commercial priorities through category-driven recommendations that accelerate revenue growth and retailer performance.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Capability Building
• Act as a strategic thought partner to Sales, RGM, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Innovation, and Executive Leadership - driving de

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