CareerPlan

Sales Strategy and Category Lead, Ready Meals

USA-Illinois-ChicagoFull-time$134k–$185k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Commercial architect for the Ambient Ready Meals (ARM) platform in North America, translating venture strategy into retailer-relevant commercial plans and equipping sales teams to win.

Role type

Senior category management and sales strategy lead

Builds

Retailer-specific sell-in materials, business cases, sales training, and launch scorecards

Domain

Food & Beverage / Retail Category Management

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Category management, commercial strategy, sales enablement, competitive intelligence, launch planning, stakeholder management, data analysis, persuasive storytelling, planning and prioritization

Preferred skills

Experience with major retailers, learning agility, resilience, operating with ambiguity

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Develop and improve the ARM commercial selling story and go-to-market approach; Build and maintain a fact base across shelf sets and categories; Lead commercial workstreams for new product launches; Serve as primary ARM representative across the North American Sales enterprise

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC