Top Food Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develops new and existing foodservice accounts within an assigned territory, promotes products and services, achieves sales and profit goals, researches customer needs, manages orders and receivables, provides product training, analyzes sales data, and builds customer relationships. The role requires territory travel, occasional nontraditional hours, and English and Spanish communication skills.

Manages academic engagement programs for student members, including leadership development, recruitment, retention, workshops, competitions, awards, grants, volunteer coordination, and online communities. Serves as staff liaison to student association leaders and committees, manages budgets and program technology, analyzes member research, and supports networking and educational initiatives. Represents the organization at events, maintains member and volunteer relationships, and ensures program compliance and operational effectiveness. Occasional domestic travel and evening or weekend commitments are required.

Leads front-end innovation for Mars Snacking by identifying consumer pain points, developing and testing new product concepts, validating value propositions, and building early business cases. The role leads cross-functional teams, partners with consumers, customers, buyers, startups, academics, and subject-matter experts, monitors trends, and prepares validated opportunities for commercialization.

The Senior Financial Analyst supports financial performance by developing budgets, forecasts, and reports, ensuring alignment with company policies and conducting analysis for operations finance. It includes collaboration with leadership and communication of financial results.

Leads global sales operations and excellence strategy, governance, forecasting, pipeline management, CRM adoption, analytics, territory planning, quota setting, and incentive design. Partners with regional leaders to standardize processes while supporting local execution. Assesses sales capabilities, identifies skill gaps, and oversees targeted training and development programs. Coordinates cross-functional initiatives with Finance, Marketing, and HR to improve sales performance, operational efficiency, customer experience, and measurable business results.

Leads revenue systems requirements, backlog management, sprint planning, project prioritization, UAT, stakeholder communication, and end-to-end delivery. Acts as the bridge between GTM teams and technical Salesforce administration and engineering teams. Oversees Salesforce and related revenue technology utilization, integrations, workflow optimization, vendor health, system adoption, and executive reporting on platform ROI and performance.

Summer 2027 marketing internship supporting beer brand building, activations, media, innovation, campaign execution, consumer research, competitive analysis, business performance insights, and agency collaboration. The intern will complete a strategic consumer-focused project, contribute creative ideas, and work cross-functionally with marketing, product development, and sales teams. The role is hybrid in Chicago with at least two in-office days weekly.

Executes and improves talent management and employee experience programs, including onboarding, learning and development, engagement surveys, performance management, culture initiatives, and employee events. Manages the UKG Learning Management System, coordinates performance cycles, facilitates learning experiences, develops onboarding content, and partners across the People Team to support employee growth, engagement, and organizational culture.

Oversee multiple engineering and capital projects from conception through commissioning across manufacturing locations. Lead cross-functional teams, manage scope, safety, budgets, forecasts, schedules, risks, vendors, contractors, and stakeholder communications. Ensure compliance with food safety, USDA, FDA, and industry requirements while driving continuous improvement and successful operational handoffs. The role requires approximately 50% travel to manufacturing facilities.

Manages and expands Red Bull’s national workplace customer accounts by developing business plans, securing new partnerships, negotiating contracts, and driving distribution and execution. Builds executive-level relationships, analyzes performance and market trends, delivers category recommendations, and coordinates cross-functional teams across sales, distribution, marketing, finance, analytics, and category management to achieve growth objectives.