HEAD OF CATEGORY STRATEGY, DEVELOPMENT AND ENABLEMENT

About the role

We are looking for a Head of Category Strategy, Development and Enablement for JBS/Pilgrim’s/Wild Fork Foods that reports on site to the corporate office in Greeley, Colorado.

Responsibilities

• Owns enterprise category development and enablement processes, frameworks, and discipline, enabling aligned decision-making across business units while preserving functional and P&L ownership.
• Leads the category strategy development process across Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Value-Added / Prepared Foods.
• Defines category roles, growth horizons, and where-to-play / how-to-win logic by channel.
• Enables alignment across Sales, Marketing, RGM, and Operations through shared strategic frameworks.
• Establishes a single enterprise view of consumer, customer, and operator insights.
• Translates insights into prioritized opportunity spaces with clear strategic and economic logic.
• Ensures consistent application of insights across strategy and GTM planning.
• Connects category opportunity spaces to innovation platforms and R&D pipelines.
• Provides structured opportunity definitions to support stage-gate and portfolio decisions.
• Ensures portfolio choices align with category and channel strategy.
• Owns the category development and enablement operating model, tools, and routines.
• Builds category fluency and commercial discipline across Pilgrim’s and JBS USA.
• Standardizes how insight, strategy, and execution integrate across the enterprise.
• Builds and executes our GTM plan, with clear market pipeline ownership and effective business development routine.
• Develops category selling stories, customer narratives, and playbooks.
• Equips Sales with tools, training, and routines to simplify execution.
• Surens interventions align with long-term category strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years in category development, insights, enablement, or commercial strategy roles.
• Proven success operating in shared services or COE models.
• Strong analytical, strategic, and executive communication skills.
• Multi-protein food or CPG experience strongly preferred.
• Current internal JBS/Pilgrim's experience strongly preferred.
• Can perform the functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

• Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment.
• Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays.
• 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule.
• Base salary range of $174,000-$211,000.
• Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan, the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program.
• Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs.

Pay

The posted salary range represents the Company’s good faith estimate of the compensation that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, qualifications, tenure, internal equity, market data, and may vary accordingly.

Schedule

This position does not have an application deadline. We will continue to recruit until the position has been filled.