Jobs at Inventure Foods

Manage site quality and food safety programs, lead QA laboratory and direct reports, oversee SQF/HACCP/FSMA compliance, respond to OOS results, liaise with USDA, lead audits, and drive continuous improvement and training.

Leads market development across independent operators and distributors, communicating sales and merchandising strategies, monitoring KPIs, improving distribution performance, conducting store visits, supporting route operations, and maintaining customer relationships. The role prepares reports, facilitates workshops, addresses service issues, supports food safety compliance, occasionally operates route trucks, and requires 75%–90% travel.

Manages relationships with independent operators and distributors to increase sales, profitability, market penetration, and DSD performance. Communicates sales and merchandising strategies, prepares KPI and inventory reports, conducts store visits, supports promotions and resets, addresses service issues, facilitates distributor workshops, and assists with route operations. Requires collaboration with sales leadership, retail decision-makers, and internal departments while maintaining food safety and operational compliance.

Leads market development across independent operators, distributors, and retail customers to increase sales, market penetration, merchandising execution, and service performance. Responsibilities include KPI and inventory reporting, store visits, promotional planning, route optimization, distributor support, workshop coordination, and issue resolution. The role occasionally operates company routes and box trucks, maintains safety and food safety compliance, and collaborates cross-functionally. Five years of sales operations experience, distribution knowledge, strong communication skills, and a valid driver's license are required.

Manage the Walmart national account and lead omnichannel strategy across brick-and-mortar, click-and-collect, and online channels. Build relationships with Walmart buyers and sales leaders, grow sales and profit, execute trade programs, forecast volume, expand distribution, and deliver sales quotas. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, syndicated data analysis, reporting, strategic planning, and travel for customer meetings and company events.

Lead sales strategy and planning processes, partner with sales, marketing, demand planning, and supply chain to build annual account-level sales plans, manage trade spend, drive forecast precision, track performance against targets, support IBP/S&OP processes, and enable sales with tools, data, training, and reporting to meet revenue objectives.

Leads end-to-end supply chain optimization across warehousing, distribution, inventory, transportation, planning, and manufacturing. Analyzes operational data, builds Excel and Power BI models, develops automation and investment business cases, improves labor productivity and service levels, and standardizes processes across sites. The manager leads cross-functional initiatives, supports network redesign and facility expansions, manages strategic partnerships, and coaches functional owners to sustain improvements.

Manages indirect procurement category strategies, strategic sourcing, supplier selection, contract negotiation, supplier performance, and cost-reduction initiatives. Partners with IT, Marketing, HR, Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders to improve cost, quality, delivery, inventory management, and supply assurance. Conducts spend and market analysis, develops sourcing recommendations, coordinates supplier development, and manages procurement projects across approximately $30–$60 million in annual spend.

Leads market development across assigned territories by partnering with independent operators and distributors to increase sales, profitability, service quality, merchandising execution, and market share. Responsibilities include reporting, KPI tracking, store visits, promotional planning, route optimization, distributor support, issue resolution, food safety compliance, and extensive travel. The role also operates route vehicles when needed and collaborates with cross-functional teams and retail decision-makers.

Leads market development through independent operators and distributors, communicating sales and merchandising strategies, monitoring inventory and KPI performance, supporting promotional execution, conducting store visits, and improving distribution and market share. The role manages distributor relationships, addresses service standards, assists with settlement issues, supports workshops and route optimization, occasionally operates a route box truck, and ensures compliance with food safety, OSHA, FDA, GMP, and company policies.

Provides sales analytics and reporting for Walmart, delivering category, consumer, e-commerce, and retail insights. The role supports customer presentations, line reviews, forecasting, item setup, inventory tracking, omni-channel performance, promotions, pricing, and product placement recommendations. It uses syndicated sales data and research tools to identify trends, measure ROI, improve business processes, and drive sales growth while collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Category, and Walmart teams.

Summer supply chain internship supporting demand forecasting, inventory management, order fulfillment, transportation, warehousing, and KPI reporting. The intern will analyze sales and inventory data, help coordinate shipments and customer orders, develop supply chain dashboards, track freight, and collaborate with procurement, logistics, production, transportation, and warehouse teams.

Lead enterprise quality assurance and food safety strategy across manufacturing, distribution, and third-party partners. Build and coach multi-site QAFS leadership, oversee GFSI/SQF, FSMA, audits, product commercialization, crisis/regulatory response, KPI-driven continuous improvement, and champion quality culture.

Lead the R&D innovation agenda to develop new snack products from concept through pilot and commercialization. Manage a team of product developers, prioritize resources, establish robust innovation processes, and collaborate cross-functionally (Procurement, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Packaging). Build external partnerships with suppliers, equipment vendors, and universities to advance initiatives and drive business growth.

The Market Development Leader I partners with independent operators and distributors to improve sales profitability, market penetration, service standards, merchandising, promotions, inventory, and distribution. Responsibilities include preparing KPI reports, conducting store visits, supporting route operations, facilitating workshops, resolving operator settlement issues, reinforcing food safety and safety compliance, and building relationships with retailers and distributors. The role requires safe vehicle operation and cross-functional collaboration.

Drive sales growth and distribution for assigned retail accounts in the Seattle/Portland region. Build strategic customer partnerships, develop account business plans (AOP/JBP/OGSMs), leverage trade systems (BluePlanner) and syndicated data (IRI/Nielsen) to forecast, plan promotions, and optimize trade investments. Collaborate cross-functionally and with distributors to execute merchandising and maximize profitability.

Manage and grow strategic retail accounts (Wakefern) to drive sales, distribution, merchandising, and profitability. Build customer partnerships, develop account business plans and forecasts, leverage syndicated data and trade systems, coordinate with field and distribution partners, and execute promotions and trade investments to meet sales targets.

Partner with Independent Operators and Master Distributors to grow DSD sales and market penetration through communication of company strategies, store visits, KPI reporting, promotions, planogram execution, route support, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires heavy travel (75-90%) and ensuring contractual service standards, food safety compliance, and successful resets and product introductions.

Manage plant production schedules to balance customer demand, inventory targets, and capacity. Maintain ERP data, adjust daily/weekly schedules, coordinate with Purchasing, Finance, and Production, oversee inventory processes, and respond to schedule variances and Redline reports to prevent stock-outs and over-runs.