Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are

We're Chomps, the fastest-growing snack brand in the U.S. and we're reimagining snacking. Our meat snacks are made using high-quality proteins, no sugar, and real ingredients – because we believe snacking should be simple, delicious, and convenient. Chomps can be found in over 30,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, real food that doesn't compromise on taste.

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

We are looking for a high-energy, motivated, and organized individual to join our team as Sales Manager – Whole Foods Market & Sprouts. This role will be critical in supporting the revenue, distribution, and trade funding objectives for Whole Foods and Sprouts. The Sales Manager – Whole Foods Market & Sprouts will report into the Director of Sales, Natural, to execute the day-to-day business while contributing to long-term growth planning. You'll manage forecasts, oversee inventory and PO execution, drive promotional plans, and foster strong customer and distributor relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver against account objectives across merchandising, assortment, pricing, and promotion.
• Manage the forecast in partnership with the Business Analytics Team and under guidance from the Director of Sales, Natural.
• Own promotion execution at Whole Foods including trade planning, pricing compliance, and shopper marketing activations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive results:
• Brokers (Whole Foods coverage)
• Distributor partners (UNFI)
• Shopper Marketing & Retail Activation teams
• Business Analytics team (forecasting & trade planning)
• Sales Ops (PO execution & troubleshooting)
• Provide input to commercialization on new items, fixtures, and shippers to drive category expansion in Natural.
• Analyze consumption, syndicated, and distributor data to identify headwinds, opportunities, and actionable insights.
• Support customer meetings and business reviews by preparing materials and representing the brand with professionalism and credibility.
• You exemplify the traits of a Chompian: game changer, dedicated, ambassador, collaborator, learner, positive and scrappy.

Who You Are

You're highly organized, analytical, and comfortable managing details like forecasting, trade planning, and PO execution, while also building strong external relationships. You excel at collaborating across teams (brokers, distributors, analytics, marketing, sales ops) and can quickly identify opportunities to grow distribution, improve promotions, and strengthen customer partnerships. Above all, you bring a scrappy, positive, roll-up-your-sleeves mentality and are motivated by contributing to the growth of a high-energy, entrepreneurial brand.

• You bring creative solutions for rapid growth; and have the follow-up to execute on ideas.
• You build strong cross functional relationships, both internally and externally
• 3+ years of experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods industry
• Previous experience working with or at key retailer: Whole Foods and Sprouts
• Previous experience with distributor partners: UNFI and KeHE
• Excellent interpersonal, networking and relationship building skills! This person can start conversations with anyone and create a positive association with Chomps brand
• Experience in sales planning, trade management and forecasting
• Ability to multi-task and work in fast-paced, high demand environment
• Self-sufficient and highly detailed oriented
• Passion for natural and organic products
• Ability to travel for trade shows, sales calls, and meetings – approximately 25% of time through the year
• Bachelor's degree
• Must be an analytical thinker and data-driven; strong data analysis skills and experience working with IRI/Nielsen and/or Retail POS data
• Have worked with trade management and demand planning software
• Strong PC skills including online applications, MS Office, and Power BI

Position : Sales Manager - Whole Foods Market & Sprouts

Reports to : Director of Sales - Natural

Location : Remote near Austin, TX + Travel

Type : Full-Time, exempt

Salary Range Opportunity:

• The salary range for this role is $110,000 - $115,000 + 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 11+ 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: -careers. If you have questions please email us at people@chomps.com

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