Chief of Staff

fairlife; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 170,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave & adoption assistance

401(k) with employer match

Wellness reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Learning & development programs

Free product

Job summary

fairlife, LLC in Chicago seeks a Chief of Staff to partner with the CEO, drive strategic planning, governance, and enterprise initiatives across the ELT, and elevate internal and external communications with Coca-Cola.

This role ensures disciplined execution, aligns priorities, and oversees high-priority programs, including risk, compliance, and board reporting. The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in CPG or corporate settings, with MBA preferred and strong storytelling for executives.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional experience in CPG, food & beverage, or large matrixed corporate environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO and executive team on annual and multi-year business planning.

Skills

Strategic planning

Program management

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Confidentiality & discretion

Influence without authority

Agile/project management

MBA or advanced degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

job purpose:

The Chief of Staff serves as a strategic partner to the fairlife CEO, driving business planning and governance, strengthening operational routines and standards, and advancing key enterprise initiatives. This role ensures clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution across the organization. The Chief of Staff also acts as an integrator across the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), enabling agile ways of working and elevating internal and external communications, including fairlife's reporting relationship with Coca-Cola , to support fairlife's growth and long-term strategy.

responsibilities:

Strategic Planning & Governance

• Partner with the CEO and executive team in the annual and multi-year business planning process, ensuring alignment withfairlife'sstrategic priorities.
• Establish governance routines that drive accountability, transparency, and timely decision-making across the enterprise.
• Partner with the CEO and ELT to monitor progress against strategic goals, surfacing risks, dependencies, and opportunities for executive action.
• Prepare CEO-level briefs, insights, and recommendations to support informed, high-impact decisions.
• Own the cadence and content for board- and parent-company-level reporting, ensuring fairlife's performance and narrative are clearly and consistently represented to Coca-Cola leadership.

Operational Excellence & Organizational Rhythm

• Build and maintain routines and standards for operational excellence, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and clarity across functions.
• Oversee high-priority initiatives on behalf of the CEO, ensuring they are scoped, resourced, sequenced, and executed effectively.
• Own a portfolio of CEO-sponsored special projects and cross-functional initiatives with clear accountability for scoping, milestones, and outcomes.
• Identify and remove operational bottlenecks, enabling teams to move faster and with greater alignment.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO and ELT members, helping them navigate enterprise priorities and interdependencies.
• Anticipate needs, prepare the CEO for key engagements, and ensure they have the right information at the right time.Serve as a proxy for the CEO in select meetings, ensuring continuity of leadership and decision-making.
• Serve as connective tissue across the ELT, ensuring alignment, clarity of priorities, and consistent follow-through.
• Facilitate agile ways of working, enabling faster iteration, cross-functional collaboration, and enterprise problem-solving.
• Drive ELT meeting agendas, materials, and outcomes, ensuring disciplined execution and clear communication of decisions.
• Partner with the General Counsel, CFO and QSE leadership on enterprise risk, compliance, and governance-calendar items — including audit committee and SOX-readiness milestones — to keep the ELT ahead of key obligations.
• Partner with the CHRO on talent reviews, succession planning, and organizational health as a standing part of the ELT rhythm.

Communications & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner withPACS, People & Culture, and other functions tohelpcraft messaging for town halls, ELT updates, board/steering committee materials, and external engagements.
• Ensure the CEO's voice, priorities, and expectations are clearly communicated across the organization.
• Build strong relationships across fairlife and with key external partners to support enterprise visibility and influence.
• Build a network across the NAOU PMO community and support wiring into key NAOU routines, including necessary content and follow-ups.

skills/qualifications required:

• Minimum 7–10 years of professional experience, ideally including time in CPG, food & beverage, or another large, matrixed corporate environment — experience operating inside a parent-company or joint-venture structure is a plus.
• Proven experience in strategic planning, program/project management, or a similar chief-of-staff, business-operations, or management-consulting role.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, CEO-ready briefs and recommendations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience developing executive, board, and enterprise-wide messaging.
• Sound judgment and discretion in handling highly confidential and strategically sensitive information.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and influence without direct authority across a senior executive team.
• Experience facilitating agile or similarly disciplined ways of working across cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.

Atfairlife, we believe in better — and that includes how we support our people. We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits and wellbeing resources designed to support you physically, emotionally, socially, and financially, both in and out of work.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, effective day one!
• Supplemental health plans (hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance)
• Paid Time Off to recharge and support work-life balance
• Paid parental leave & adoption assistance (up to $10,000)
• Parental support & family care benefits, including childcare resources and lactation support
• 401(k) to support retirement planning with up to 9% in employer match
• Wellness reimbursement (up to $500 for qualified wellbeing expenses)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for emotional wellbeing and work-life support
• Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability
• Employer HSA funding (for HDHP participants)
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $10,000) and student loan repayment ($200/month)
• Learning & development programs to unlock your full potential
• Rewards & recognition, matching gifts, free product, and Business Resource Groups
• Our manufacturing facilities are climate-controlled and a pristine work environment

fairlife’snour!shprogram is designed to meet you where you are — supporting your individual wellbeing journey while enabling you to do your best work every day.

reports to: CEO

*Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Base pay range:

$170,000 - $195,000 USD

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email [e-mail].

For Recruitment Agencies

At fairlife, we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing. Most of our roles are filled through applications submitted via our careers site or through direct outreach by our team. As our recruitment is primarily handled in-house, we work only occasionally with external agencies, and only those on our existing, pre-approved vendor list. At this time, we are not reviewing or expanding that list. Unsolicited resumes or submissions from external agencies not authorized by our Talent Acquisition team will be considered direct candidate applications. As such, fairlife will not assume responsibility for any placement fees associated with these submissions.