Chief of Staff

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Snack Innovations is a leading manufacturer of better-for-you salty snack food located in Piscataway NJ. We produce a wide range of snack chips, sticks, straws, curls and popcorn.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and supporting the Founders and executive leadership team, the Chief of Staff serves as a trusted strategic and operational partner who helps convert leadership priorities into coordinated action. This role drives execution of quarterly company priorities, prepares leaders to make informed decisions, coordinates initiatives that cross functional boundaries, and ensures commitments are carried through to completion.

The Chief of Staff must be comfortable operating at both the strategic and tactical levels. The position is an individual-contributor role initially and includes limited executive coordination and administrative support, but its primary focus is improving leadership effectiveness, organizational alignment, accountability, and execution.

• Partner with the CEO, Founders, and executive leadership team to translate company direction into clear annual and quarterly priorities
• Coordinate and track company priorities “Rocks,” scorecard commitments, strategic initiatives, and leadership action items, ensuring owners, milestones, and deadlines are clearly established
• Facilitate annual planning, quarterly planning sessions, leadership offsites, and other forums used to establish priorities and evaluate progress
• Identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and unresolved decisions that may affect execution and bring them to leadership before they become barriers
• Help maintain the company’s EOS operating rhythm and ensure issues are identified, discussed, resolved, and followed through to completion

• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the CEO while maintaining strong working relationships with the Founders and members of the executive leadership team
• Coordinate leadership meetings, including agendas, pre-read materials, decisions, action items, and disciplined follow-up
• Prepare executive briefings, presentations, analysis, talking points, and decision-support materials for internal and external use
• Help leadership sequence competing priorities, focus attention on the most important issues, and maintain alignment when priorities change
• Ensure leadership decisions and expectations are communicated clearly to the appropriate owners and carried out consistently across the organization

• Lead or coordinate high-priority initiatives that span Operations, Quality, Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Research and Development, and other functions
• Establish clear project plans, ownership, decision points, timelines, and measures of success for assigned initiatives
• Build alignment among stakeholders, remove barriers to execution, and elevate issues requiring executive attention or resolution
• Track commitments across departments and hold owners accountable for timely, complete follow-through without assuming ownership that belongs within the function
• Support organizational change initiatives and help leaders translate decisions into practical implementation plans

• Develop and maintain leadership scorecards, dashboards, and reporting tools that provide a clear view of organizational performance and emerging risks
• Analyze operational and business data, identify trends or gaps, and provide practical recommendations to improve execution and results
• Evaluate and improve business processes, decision…