Field Production Lead, Experiential Ops

Chobani; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Chobani is seeking a Field Production Manager to bring best-in-class activations to life across the United States. You will lead planning, logistics, warehousing, setup, execution, and breakdown of consumer sampling programs and brand experiences.

The role requires traveling up to 75% of the time and coordinating with multiple teams, warehouse partners, and vendors to ensure premium brand execution. You will manage budgets, safety, and post-event reporting for large-scale activations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in experiential production, mobile marketing, event operations, field logistics, or large-scale consumer activation.
• At least three years of experience serving as the primary production or operational lead for complex programs.
• Experience leading production crews, vendors, drivers, warehouse partners, field teams, and concurrent operational workstreams.
• Strong project-management, financial, communication, organizational, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Experience within CPG, food and beverage, consumer sampling, or experiential marketing.
• Experience managing national tours, sporting events, festivals, retail activations, or cultural tentpoles.
• Experience with refrigerated products, cold-chain logistics, food safety, and third-party warehouse operations.
• Experience managing branded vehicles, trailers, mobile sampling units, generators, refrigeration, and commercial event equipment.
• Familiarity with DOT requirements, inventory systems, asset-management programs, and operational standard operating procedures.
• Food-handler, ServSafe, first-aid, CPR, DOT, or other relevant safety certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop production plans, schedules, site maps, equipment lists, packing lists, and readiness checklists.
• Oversee load-in, setup, event operations, breakdown, and load-out to ensure premium brand execution.
• Serve as the primary onsite production lead, resolving issues related to safety, timing, budget, product quality, and consumer experience.
• Coordinate the movement of product, vehicles, equipment, and branded assets between warehouses, markets, and events.
• Manage carriers, drivers, delivery schedules, shipment tracking, refrigerated transportation, and venue requirements.
• Maintain cold-chain integrity and oversee product handling, storage, replenishment, rotation, and disposition.
• Reconcile product, equipment, supplies, shrink, and waste following each activation.
• Partner with the field teams to receive, store, stage, deploy, and return activation materials.
• Maintain accurate inventory and asset records, including location, condition, assignment, and maintenance needs.
• Standardize packing, labeling, storage, check-in/check-out, and event-kit processes.
• Conduct quality-control inspections to confirm assets are clean, functional, properly branded, and deployment-ready.
• Coordinate cleaning, repairs, preventive maintenance, rewrapping, replacement, and redeployment of field assets.
• Develop budgets across production, transportation, warehousing, equipment, labor, and travel.
• Identify cost efficiencies through routing, inventory controls, asset utilization, and standardized processes.
• Develop clear vendor scopes covering deliverables, schedules, staffing, equipment, responsibilities, and costs.
• Manage vendors and partners against quality, safety, service, timing, and budget.

Skills

Production leadership

Project management

Communication

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Documentation

Vendor management

Field logistics

CPG experience

Food safety

Refrigerated transport

DOT knowledge

Tools

Inventory systems

Asset-management programs

Transportation management systems

Job description

Chobani is seeking a Field Production Manager to bring best-in-class activations to life across the United States. You will lead planning, logistics, warehousing, setup, execution, and breakdown of consumer sampling programs and brand experiences.

The role requires traveling up to 75% of the time and coordinating with multiple teams, warehouse partners, and vendors to ensure premium brand execution. You will manage budgets, safety, and post-event reporting for large-scale activations.