Customer Development Manager - Grocery Channel

At 1440 Foods, we're on a mission to energize people to unleash their full potential with a portfolio of great-tasting, high-protein snacks and supplements. Our brands Pure Protein®, Body Fortress®, MET-Rx®, and FITCrunch® make better nutrition accessible, enjoyable, and part of an active lifestyle. As a fast-growing sports and active nutrition company, we are shaping the future of health and wellness in CPG.

If you're looking to make a big impact in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, we'd love to have you on board!

As the Manager Customer Development, you will lead strategic regional grocery customers, with a primary focus on Ahold Delhaize and other key grocery channel partners. This role is responsible for driving profitable growth, accelerating distribution, and building best-in-class customer partnerships across the 1440 Foods portfolio. The ideal candidate brings a high-performance, growth-oriented mindset with a strong bias for action, accountability, and execution.

This leader will own customer strategy end-to-end — partnering cross-functionally across Sales, Category Management, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and broker partners to unlock incremental growth opportunities, win at shelf, and deliver exceptional in-market execution. This position carries full P&L ownership and accountability for delivering the Annual Operating Plan, including Net Sales, Profitability, Distribution (ACV), Market Share, Trade ROI, and customer-specific growth objectives.

The role will also lead and influence broker partners to ensure flawless execution and elevated customer engagement. The ideal candidate will reside in the Eastern half of the United States.

• Develop and execute strategic joint business plans with key regional grocery retailers and distributors to drive category leadership and accelerate growth across the 1440 Foods brand portfolio.
• Identify and capitalize on opportunities to expand distribution, close assortment voids, improve shelf presence, and drive incremental merchandising support.
• Build senior-level customer relationships rooted in strategic partnership, data-driven insights, and collaborative growth planning.
• Lead customer-specific growth strategies with a focus on velocity, profitability, innovation launches, promotional effectiveness, and omnichannel execution.
• Serve as the primary commercial leader for assigned accounts, driving alignment internally and externally to achieve aggressive growth objectives.
• Represent the company at customer meetings, industry events, trade shows, and conferences with professionalism and strong brand stewardship.

• Lead broker partner relationships with clear expectations, accountability, and a performance-driven operating cadence focused on execution excellence.
• Partner cross-functionally with Category Management, Marketing, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Finance, and Customer Service teams to deliver customer-specific business plans and operational excellence.
• Translate category trends, retailer strategies, and consumer insights into compelling selling stories and actionable growth opportunities.
• Negotiate annual plans, promotional programs, assortment expansions, and merchandising initiatives that deliver profitable growth and maximize ROI.
• Drive operational discipline across trade management processes, deduction management, pricing accuracy, forecasting, and customer payment resolution.

• Own the full sales planning and execution cycle for assigned accounts, including business reviews, line reviews, innovation sell-in, promotional planning, and annual negotiations.
• Develop impactful customer presentations…