Chobani

Director of Sales, Walmart

Chobani$140K — $220K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 10+ years experience in consumer packaged goods, including Sales and/or Category Management
  • Experience working with Walmart is essential
  • Strong leadership and negotiation skills
  • Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams
  • Proficiency in reporting systems like IRI and Nielsen
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Responsibilities

  • Drive the development of go-to-market strategy for Walmart to meet volume and revenue targets
  • Implement strategic selling plans for sales objectives
  • Build relationships with Walmart's dairy merchant team to align strategies with Chobani's metrics
  • Provide insights and recommendations to Walmart based on customer and competitor analysis
  • Lead collaboration for accurate trade forecasts and planning
  • Create selling materials to support Walmart dairy buy teams
  • Leverage data for informed business recommendations
  • Coach and develop direct reports for organizational growth

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment
  • Fertility and childcare assistance
  • Employee wellness resources including fitness discounts and on-site gym access
  • 120 hours of paid time off and 11 holidays
Full Job Description
Summary

The Chobani Sales Director (Walmart Dairy) will drive the strategy, business development and execution of the Chobani dairy business for this strategic customer. This role will partner cross functionally with Commercial Development, Customer Finance, Supply Chain and New Product Development to develop and deliver a winning plan for the existing dairy business. This position is based in our sales office in Bentonville, AR.

Responsibilities

  • Dynamic, thought leadership in the development of Chobani's go-to-market strategy at Walmart that delivers volume and revenue targets
  • Develop, plan, and implement strategic selling plans to achieve sales objectives including volume, profit, and shopper expense
  • Drive and build relationships with dairy merchant team, understanding their needs, national and regional strategies while aligning with internal Chobani critical metrics
  • Be a proactive voice of Walmart internally: provide integrated customer, consumer, and competitor insights along with actionable recommendations to drive share of mind, resourcing and focus
  • Lead cross functional planning collaboration to deliver accurate volume and trade forecasts to finance, supply chain and commercial development partners
  • Identify and partner in the creation of selling materials to bring impactful and effective information to the Walmart dairy buy teams
  • Complete understanding of Walmart's internal structure, business practices and go to market strategies.
  • Develop direct reports, providing coaching and growth opportunities to build organizational capability
  • Pull, analyze and leverage Scintilla and syndicated data to inform selling strategies and business recommendations
  • Perform other duties as necessary


Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 10+ years consumer packaged goods experience including Sales and/or Category Management
  • Walmart experience required
  • Strong and validated leadership skills
  • Negotiation skills and ability to influence
  • Ability to work in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross functional leadership
  • Highly customer focused with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships
  • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to perform in a high growth, highly visible environment
  • Highly organized with the ability to lead multiple projects against deadlines
  • Proficient with reporting systems such as IRI and Nielsen
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office
  • 25% travel required


The salary range for this full-time position is $140,000.00 - $220,000.00, + bonus + equity + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Chobani provides a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision coverage, disability insurance, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, and tuition reimbursement. To help save for the future, all employees are eligible for a 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay. To support growing families, we provide fertility and childcare assistance, and 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment. In addition, we provide wellness resources which include an employee assistance program, fitness discounts, a wellness reimbursement, on-site gym access (certain locations) and a monthly wellness newsletter to connect you with resources and timely information. We offer various types of paid time of including: 120 hours of paid time off, 11 holidays, and paid volunteer time off.

About Chobani

Chobani is an American food company specializing in strained yogurt. The company was founded in 2005 by Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish-Kurdish businessman. Chobani sells thick, Greek-style yogurt with a higher protein content than traditional yogurt and is one of the main companies to popularize this style of yogurt in the US. The company has also expanded to non-dairy, plant-based products such as dairy-free vegan yogurt and oat milk. Chobani produces a variety of Greek yogurt products, oat drinks, and snacks. Chobani's yogurt's market share in the U.S. rose from less than 1% in 2007 to more than 20% in 2021, and is the top-selling Greek yogurt brand in the United States and operates the largest yogurt facility in the world.
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