Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Serve as strategic HR partner to North America Sales, aligning talent, workforce planning, leadership development, and organizational design with business goals. Lead talent reviews, succession planning, performance management, employee relations, change initiatives, and use workforce analytics and digital/AI tools to inform decisions and improve people outcomes. Coach leaders and manage complex employee relations and transformations.

Coordinate day-to-day rail operations and weekly/annual rail plans to ensure efficient, reliable shipment flow. Manage execution, tracking, exception resolution, stakeholder communications, railcar utilization, cost control, invoice audits, and performance reviews using SAP/S4, TMS, Power BI, and Excel while driving continuous improvement.

Lead growth strategy for Distributor Buying Groups, Redistribution and Wholesale by identifying whitespace, leveraging analytics and AI-enabled insights, building high-performing sales teams, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to drive profitable volume, category share expansion, and improved commercial execution.

Own and deliver high-value AI use cases end-to-end by embedding in business workflows, partnering with AI engineering pods, ensuring integrations (SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Distyl), driving adoption, measuring business outcomes, and enforcing Responsible AI, security, and governance standards.

Lead global finished-goods network strategy for McCain's Snacking business, owning make-vs-buy, footprint, and distribution decisions. Build and lead a new team, develop portfolio segmentation and governance, embed regulatory/trade requirements, run network modeling and scenario analyses, and align cross-functional and regional stakeholders to optimize cost-to-serve, capacity, and resilience.

Partner with US Retail sales to provide financial analysis, pricing support, and trade investment management. Build financial models, evaluate promotions and contracts, monitor trade spending, deliver reporting and insights, and drive process improvements across cross-functional teams to support profitable growth.