Top Food Jobs in Chicago, IL

Supports portfolio and marketing strategies for McCain’s key foodservice brand portfolios. The role develops customer and consumer insights, identifies growth opportunities, leads innovation commercialization, manages portfolio performance, contributes to business planning, and analyzes category and SKU results. It partners with cross-functional teams across sales, innovation, insights, supply chain, and marketing operations to drive profitable growth, market share, customer value, and portfolio competitiveness.

Manage retail media advertiser relationships and support sales throughout pre- and post-sales campaign processes. Develop media recommendations, coordinate creative and asset management, set up campaigns in ad-serving and CRM systems, monitor pacing and performance, recommend optimizations, oversee billing, and finalize completion reports. The role requires strong client communication, organization, timeline management, retail media knowledge, and collaboration with internal teams and external brands.

Manages global legal financial operations, including outside counsel invoice processing, tax and billing compliance, SAP and e-billing reconciliation, vendor and matter management, reporting, onboarding, training, and process improvements. Serves as the primary contact for law firms, vendors, Finance, Procurement, IT, and legal stakeholders. Supports legal technology platforms, outside counsel guidelines, budgeting, performance tracking, and cross-functional project management.

Own a regional mid-market SaaS customer portfolio of 16–50 locations. Build executive relationships, drive product adoption, retention, expansion, and referrals, identify churn risks, lead strategic business reviews, facilitate demos, manage escalations, and coordinate cross-functional teams. The role requires consultative account management, strong communication, independent prioritization, and the ability to influence senior decision-makers.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading design and delivery of large-scale order platform capabilities spanning cloud and point-of-sale systems. The role drives architecture, performance, reliability, API design, code quality, incident response, and technical roadmap alignment. It also requires cross-team collaboration, domain expertise in order processing and synchronization, mentoring engineers, and using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

Leads the end-to-end operating model for Toast’s customer support organization, including staffing, workflows, service segmentation, workforce planning, quality, analytics, and performance measurement. Owns AI transformation across chat, voice, agent-assist, and automation, while partnering with Product and Engineering on support systems. Establishes voice-of-customer feedback loops, manages vendors and BPO partners, communicates performance to executives, and builds a high-performing operations leadership team.

Manage Hilton’s business travel sales accounts, including strategic account planning, annual RFP leadership, customer and TMC partnerships, and revenue growth. Use market intelligence, analytics, technology, and AI tools to influence buying decisions, increase room-night production, and expand market share. Collaborate across Hilton’s matrixed organization and participate in client meetings, trade shows, travel fairs, and business reviews. The role requires hospitality and business travel sales experience, with travel up to 40%.

Lead Tovala’s brand strategy, product marketing, content, social, and consumer insights. Steward brand positioning and messaging, drive creative execution and agency relationships, own editorial and owned-channel voice, and manage and develop the brand team. Partner with Creative, Growth, Product, and Design and contribute to marketing leadership and company-wide strategy.

Leads ChowNow’s GTM Revenue Operations function across Sales, Onboarding, Customer Success, Marketing, and Business Systems. Owns GTM process improvement, systems architecture, technical-debt reduction, workflow design, forecasting, territory and compensation infrastructure, and cross-functional alignment. Manages a team of 5–7 direct reports while advising the CEO on systems risks, priorities, and strategic opportunities.

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems for real-time restaurant payment and financial workflows. Responsibilities include architecting reliable services, protecting sensitive financial data, improving observability and production performance, debugging distributed systems, participating in on-call rotations, applying AI-assisted engineering tools, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring engineers.

Lead the development of procurement strategies, drive vendor management, ensure cost savings, and establish procurement processes in a remote-first environment.

Leads capital and technical engineering projects across multiple food manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include developing master plans, managing budgets, scopes, approvals, procurement, construction, commissioning, validation, and closeout. The role coordinates stakeholders and contractors, ensures safety and quality compliance, provides technical troubleshooting, supports maintenance and continuous improvement initiatives, and serves as a subject matter expert in sanitary design and food-processing technology.

Leads enterprise data governance strategy, standards, accountability, data quality, process improvement, and technology enablement. Partners across business and IT teams to improve data ownership, stewardship, integration, workflows, automation, and reporting reliability. Establishes governance frameworks, quality scorecards, issue remediation processes, and performance measures while influencing stakeholders across a matrixed organization. The role supports SAP and enterprise data environments without owning transactional data maintenance or technical architecture.