About this VP, Commercial Strategy & Growth role at Chomps
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 nimble, 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.
What you will do
As Chomps scales toward its next phase of growth, two significant opportunities are ahead: expanding our international presence and extending the brand into adjacent categories. This newly created role, reporting directly to the President & COO, will provide dedicated senior leadership across these growth platforms - shaping where we play, how we win, and how we sequence investment against our long-range ambitions. Working across Consumer Insights, Innovation, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Operations, this leader will translate growth opportunities into clear, commercially grounded strategies and ensure they are effectively commercialized from concept through market execution.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year growth strategy and glide path for international expansion and new categories, integrated into the company's long-range plan.
- Build and defend the business case for each new platform, market sizing, margin, capital requirements, and go/no-go economics, and bring rigor to how we prioritize and sequence.
- Stand up and chair a cross-functional stage-gate that moves new products from concept through validated, scaled launch, with clear entry and exit criteria at each gate.
- Orchestrate the matrix: partner with Marketing on innovation and brand, Operations on commercialization and supply, Sales on channel and customer strategy, Finance on the model, Digital Transformation on system and tools, and Business Development on licensing, partnerships and M&A.
- Lead go-to-market strategy for new-market and new-category entry, including channel, pricing, and partner selection.
- Serve as interim P&L steward for emerging bets until they are large enough to graduate to a dedicated general manager.
- Give the CEO, President & COO and senior leadership a single, current view of growth-bet health against the plan.
- Reports out to the Company’s board as far as growth strategies, capital allocation and resource needs.
Who you are
- 12+ years in CPG with a track record in commercial strategy, corporate strategy, general management, or new-business and venture roles, ideally in food or beverage.
- Demonstrated ownership of a new-category, new-channel, or international expansion, carried from strategy through market launch.
- Fluency across the full commercialization lifecycle, consumer insight, product development, supply and operations, pricing, and retail and channel sell-in, enough to integrate specialists even where you are not the specialist.
- A strong financial and analytical toolkit: business-case modeling, P&L literacy, and disciplined investment prioritization.
- Proven ability to lead through influence across a matrix, driving outcomes without owning every function.
- The executive presence to partner with the President & COO, CEO, and board on capital and portfolio decisions.
- Experience in high-growth or founder-led environments, and genuine comfort with ambiguity and pace a plus.
- Direct experience launching internationally (Canada, Mexico, or the UK) or in adjacent snacking categories a plus.
- A blend of consulting or corporate-development background with hands-on, in-house operating experience a plus.
Position: VP, Commercial Strategy & Growth
Reports to: President & COO
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time, exempt
Salary Range Opportunity:
- The salary range for this role is $220,000 - $250,000 + 30% bonus
Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:
- Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry.
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.
- In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
Other Perks:
- Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
- Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
- Unlimited PTO and 15+ paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
- Company-wide Continual Education budget.
- Unlimited snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).
Our Commitment
Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.
We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.
You must reside in the United States to be considered for this position. Chomps does not provide employment-based visa sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Important Notice:
It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information. If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at [email protected]
