Analyst, Category Management

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 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 8/4/26 - 8/10/26*

What You Will Do

We are looking for a highly collaborative, results-oriented person to join the team as Analyst, Category Management. Your primary responsibility will be to provide category management and insight support across the entire Chomps portfolio of products within assigned key accounts and sales channels. In this role, you will collaborate with sales, operations, and marketing teams to support the execution of growth strategies across our customers aligned to category growth goals and total company objectives. You will make an impact by helping align with sales and retailer partners to identify win-win opportunities between Chomps and assigned retail partners. The Analyst, Category Management is passionate about analytics and storytelling, turning insights into compelling narratives that elevate customer partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Build category knowledge, and help identify and articulate business insights and fact-based opportunities (storytelling) for assigned key accounts/channels by leveraging a variety of retailer, vendor, market/consumption, and shopper data sources (Numerator, retailer specific).
• Your analytic insights and recommendations will help build capabilities and develop functional expertise to drive incremental growth.
• Utilize various information sources to address a variety of routine and ad-hoc analytical projects, including (but not limited to) regularly published retailer and/or category scorecards, performance reports/updates with assessment of brand, category, and competitive opportunities/issues.
• Support the management of data by organizing, scrubbing, analyzing, and finalizing large sets of raw data.
• Learn to utilize customer-specific shopper and data platforms to help leverage information for decision making, both internal and external.
• Partner with marketing and sales teams by providing analytics, reporting, and data-driven content addressing customer and category questions and opportunities.
• Help develop fact-based selling stories for innovation launches, close distribution gaps and expand distribution to support company, consumer, and customer strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, to create category-focused analysis & compelling insights to drive Chomps strategic priorities.
• Support competitive intelligence and analyses (total category, channel, customer level) to help protect or grow our business.
• Contribute to the measurement of test-and-learn initiatives and continuous improvement of shelving and merchandising recommendations.
• Support a data-driven approach to in-store placements and planogram recommendations.
• Contribute to organizational goals by taking on new and different duties and identifying new opportunities within the Sales and Business Intelligence departments.

Who You Are

• Bachelor''s degree in a related field.

• 1+ years of experience in category management, CPG analytics, and/or account management.

• Prior industry experience in food, CPG, and/or grocery/natural is preferred.

• Proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint.

• Working knowledge of secondary and syndicated data sources (Nielsen, Spins, IRI, Numerator, 84.51, etc.), loyalty card and shopper panel metrics.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and visual selling content.

• Strong communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills.

• Strong presentation skills with the ability to confidently communicate insights and recommendations to external stakeholders.

• Ability to prioritize a high volume of requests and projects.

Position: Analyst, Category Management

Reports to: Senior Manager, Category Management

Location: Remote

Type: Full-Time, exempt

Salary Range Opportunity:

• The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $75,000 + 10% 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 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 people@chomps.com