Manager, Growth Unit

Employee Type:
Full time
Location:
IL Oak Brook
Job Type:
General Management
Job Posting Title:
Manager, Growth Unit
About Us:
TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.
Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values—Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.
What You Gain:
Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day!
401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.
Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).
Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.
An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.
Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.
Job Description:
About the Role:
We are seeking a dynamic Manager, Growth Unit, to join our corporate team. The Manager, Growth Unit is responsible for managing category business performance, supporting delivery of financial commitments, and translating Growth Unit strategy into clear annual plans, commercial priorities, and executable growth initiatives. This role manages assigned category P&L performance and serves as a cross-functional business leader, partnering closely with Commercial, Finance, RDI, Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, and Food Safety & Quality to deliver net sales, margin, service, innovation, productivity, and customer commitments.
The Manager will use category, customer, competitive, operational, and financial insights to identify value creation opportunities, prioritize initiatives, remove barriers, and ensure disciplined execution against the annual operating plan and long-term strategic plan. This role also supports talent development, leads cross-functional category tables, and builds operating rhythms that improve accountability, speed, and decision quality across the business.
You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:
Business Strategy and Category Leadership
Own category business performance, including profitability, growth, operational priorities, and achievement against annual targets.
Set and execute the category strategy, ambition, and growth plan aligned to enterprise and Growth Unit priorities.
Translate category strategy into a prioritized pipeline of growth, productivity, pricing, portfolio, and customer initiatives.
Analyze category data, customer needs, consumer trends, competitive activity, and operational performance to identify growth opportunities, defend market share, and improve margin.
Define portfolio, pricing, bid, contract extension, and customer strategies in partnership with Commercial, Finance, and functional partners.
Financial Performance and P&L Management
Manage assigned category P&L performance, including net sales, gross margin, volume, pricing, mix, productivity, and operating assumptions.
Lead target setting, budget guidance, annual operating plan inputs, forecast reviews, and business performance routines for assigned categories.
Identify and close value gaps where margin erosion, service issues, cost pressures, capacity constraints, or execution risks are impacting performance.
Partner with Finance to evaluate initiative economics, customer profitability, pricing actions, bid decisions, risks, opportunities, and trade-offs.
Monitor results and develop contingency plans to ensure delivery of financial commitments.
Cross-Functional Execution
Lead category tables and cross-functional teams to establish priorities, drive accountability, resolve gaps, and deliver annual and strategic plans.
Collaborate with Commercial, Operations, Planning, Procurement, Corporate Engineering, RDI, and Food Safety & Quality to execute initiatives, support capacity planning, and enable commercialization.
Drive disciplined project execution by aligning scope, timelines, financial expectations, resource needs, risks, and customer commitments.
Ensure strong communication across functional teams, so decisions, trade-offs, and escalations are timely, transparent, and action oriented.
Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement
Identify opportunities to improve service, quality, cost, productivity, working capital, capacity utilization, SKU health, and portfolio effectiveness.
Use business insights and performance metrics to simplify work, improve decision quality, and accelerate execution across the Growth Unit.
Lead business reviews, initiative reviews, bid reviews, strategic planning discussions, and recurring operating rhythms for assigned categories.
Drive adoption of consistent processes, tools, and governance that improve accountability and help the organization deliver with speed and discipline.
People Leadership
Develop, coach, and manage direct reports and cross-functional partners to strengthen business ownership, commercial acumen, and execution capability.
Build succession strength and create clear development plans for team members supporting assigned categories.
Model TreeHouse Foods values by fostering accountability, collaboration, transparency, inclusion, and a continuous improvement mindset.
Create clarity around priorities, decision rights, performance expectations, and measures of success.
Important Details:
This is a full-time, first-shift hybrid position based at our corporate office in Oak Brook, IL.
This is a full-time, first-shift hybrid position based at our corporate office in Oak Brook, IL.;">This is a full-time, first-shift hybrid position based at our corporate office in Oak Brook, IL.This is a full-time, first-shift hybrid position based at our corporate office in Oak Brook, IL.The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $99,100 to $148,700 annually. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay.
You’ll fit right in if you have:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, Food Science, or a related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
5+ years of progressive experience in business management, category management, commercial strategy, general management, finance, supply chain, or related roles required.
2-3 years of coffee experience preferred.
Experience in food, beverage, CPG, manufacturing, private label, or related industries preferred.
Demonstrated experience managing business performance, financial targets, commercial plans, and cross-functional execution.
Strong P&L, financial, analytical, and strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate insights into action.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and dri