Chobani

Senior Commercial Brand Manager

Chobani$150K — $155K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in category management, shopper marketing, or commercial strategy.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using Nielsen or Circana tools.
  • Ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.
  • Deep understanding of shopper strategies and sell-in processes.
  • Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with day-to-day execution.
  • Excellent communicator, adept at simplifying complex ideas into compelling stories.
  • Collaborative mindset to work across various teams such as brand, sales, and finance.

Responsibilities

  • Develop insights into the frozen category and shopper behavior for commercial decisions.
  • Analyze data from multiple sources to identify trends and opportunities.
  • Create reporting that aids the team in making informed decisions.
  • Support innovation through actionable category and consumer insights.
  • Build shopper marketing strategies tailored to specific accounts.
  • Lead retail media strategies and optimize investments across accounts.
  • Adapt broader brand campaigns for retailer-specific executions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Disability insurance and health savings accounts.
  • Tuition reimbursement and 401k matching up to 5%.
  • Paid parental leave and fertility assistance for growing families.
  • Access to wellness resources, including gym facilities and fitness discounts.
  • Generous paid time off policies, including holidays and volunteer time.
Full Job Description
Summary

Daily Harvest is looking for a Senior Commercial Brand Manager to lead commercial strategy,
category insights, shopper marketing approach, and retail performance across our growing retail
business. This role is designed for someone excited by category, consumer, and retailer insights,
with the ability to turn them into better products, stronger sell-in stories, and more effective retail
execution.

Reporting to the Brand Director, this person will serve as a key commercial thought partner by
owning the development of category intelligence, retail and shopper strategy, and performance
reporting that help shape how Daily Harvest grows in retail.
This role will also play an important role in informing innovation priorities through strong category
analysis, consumer insight development, and retailer opportunity identification.

Responsibilities

What You'll Own

Commercial Insights & Category Understanding
  • Develop a strong understanding of the frozen category, competitive landscape, and
    shopper behavior to inform commercial decision-making
  • Pull and synthesize data from Nielsen, Circana, retailer portals, and internal sales to
    identify key trends, opportunities, and risks
  • Translate data into clear, actionable insights that inform sell stories, shopper programs,
    and portfolio decisions
  • Maintain a consistent pulse on category performance and retailer dynamics, ensuring the
    team is making decisions with the right context
  • Build simple, clear reporting that helps the team make faster and better commercial
    decisions

Innovation Support Through Insights
  • Support innovation work by bringing forward category, shopper, and consumer insights that
    help identify strong opportunities
  • Contribute to innovation briefs by providing commercial context such as target shopper,
    price positioning, competitive landscape, and retailer fit
  • Help ensure new ideas are grounded in real-world viability without owning the end-to-end
    innovation strategy

Shopper Strategy & Sell-In
  • Build account-specific shopper marketing strategies and retail selling stories
  • Develop strong sell-in decks and buyer-facing materials rooted in category trends, retailer
    needs, and performance insights
  • Adapt broader brand campaigns into retailer-relevant executions that reflect how each
    account operates
  • Partner with Finance and cross-functional teams to ensure promotional strategies and
    trade investments are commercially sound

Retail Media
  • Lead retail media strategy and optimization across key retail accounts
  • Ensure retail media investments are informed by retailer dynamics, shopper behavior, and
    measurable business outcomes

What Success Looks Like
  • Daily Harvest has a sharper, more consistent understanding of category, shopper, and
    retailer opportunities
  • Leadership has clear commercial reporting and actionable recommendations
  • Innovation and portfolio decisions are better informed by category and consumer insights
  • Retailer sell-in materials are stronger, smarter, and more credible
  • Shopper and retail media programs drive measurable retail performance


Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in category management, shopper marketing, commercial
    strategy, or related CPG functions
  • Strong analytical and commercial thinker with hands-on experience using Nielsen, Circana,
    retailer portals, or equivalent tools
  • Experience translating data into actionable business recommendations
  • Strong understanding of shopper strategy, sell-in processes, and retail dynamics
  • Comfortable owning both strategic thinking and day-to-day execution
  • Excellent communicator who can simplify complexity into compelling commercial stories
  • Flexible and collaborative, with the ability to work across brand, sales, finance, and
    innovation teams


The salary range for this full-time position is $150,000 - $155,000, + 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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