Senior Manager, Productivity

Who We Are

We're Chomps, the fastest-growing meat snack brand reimagining best-for-you snacking. Made from the highest quality, humanely raised proteins, no sugar, and only real ingredients, we make snacking simple, delicious, and nutritious. Chomps can be found in over 20,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, sustainable, and real food that tastes great.

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.

What You Will Do

As the Senior Manager, Productivity, you will be responsible for leading the cost savings agenda across the total Operations function at Chomps. This new role is critical as Chomps' growth has accelerated, combined with the increasing scale and complexity of our supply chain. We have the unique opportunity to find efficiencies in our end-to-end supply chain. As cost savings are identified and implemented, it will allow reinvestment in the Brand to support future growth. You will partner across each of the sub-functions within our Operations team, including Procurement, Manufacturing (CoMan and Repack), R&D, Fulfillment, Transportation, and Planning, to identify and drive execution of cost savings initiatives. Additionally, you will partner with other functions outside of Operations to ensure alignment and support for these initiatives, including Finance, Business Analytics, Sales, Ecomm, and Brand teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall governance of productivity (cost savings) processes across Operations/Supply Chain
• Drive dedicated focus for and support of productivity efforts as many Operations resources team are often pulled in the direction of daily operational execution
• Lead ideation and brainstorming processes to identify, quantify, prioritize, and resource cost savings initiatives
• Drive alignment on cost savings initiatives with key decision-makers balancing cost savings potential, but also what is best for the Brand holistically
• Serve as project manager for all end-to-end supply chain cost savings initiatives which require heavy coordination and trade-offs between functions
• Provide support as needed to the sub-functions within Operations (Procurement, Manufacturing, R&D, Fulfillment, Transportation, and Planning) to implement projects within their functional area
• Travel to Chicago office and third-party partners across our end-to-end supply chain – expect travel commitments to be in the 25-40% range
  
  

Who You Are

• Minimum of 7+ years of relevant Supply Chain and Operations experiences with breadth across different functions, including both Headquarter/Corporate and Field experiences (i.e. at Manufacturing and Distribution/Fulfillment sites)
• Project management skills
• Lean Six Sigma certification and practical experiences with cost savings leadership and tangible results
• Direct people leadership skills - ideally both salary (exempt) and hourly
• Influencing, alignment, communication (verbal and written), cross-functional collaboration, and negotiation skills
• Analytical and financial acumen, including capability to understand business drivers and dig into cost structures including budgets vs. actuals, volume projections, financial modeling, etc.
• Ability to grasp new concepts, multitask, maintain focus, and adapt to a variety of challenges in a fast-paced environment
• Prioritization skills to focus on highest value and velocity cost savings opportunities (opportunity vs. effort)
• Entrepreneurial mentality with a 'self-starter' approach
• Problem solver who seeks creative solutions, with a consistent attention to detail
• Highly proficient in MS Excel, and MS Powerpoint
• Experiences in CPG, Food, and/or Beverage industries is a plus
  
  

Position: Senior Manager, Productivity

Reports to: SVP, Operations

Location: Remote + travel expectations

Type: Full-Time, exempt

Salary Range Opportunity:

• The salary range for this role is $140,000 - $150,000 + 20% annual 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 10 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.

Important Notice:

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