VP, Commercial Strategy & Growth

About this role

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 specialis

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