Premium chocolate manufacturer with vertically integrated production and expanding travel retail footprint
Ghirardelli operates a vertically integrated chocolate manufacturing business — controlling cocoa processing through finished goods — and is actively modernizing its sales and data infrastructure. The hiring acceleration skews heavily toward sales roles (18 of 34 active positions), paired with projects around unified sales dashboards and product data synchronization with trading partners, indicating a push to consolidate fragmented reporting and scale commercial operations. The stack (SAP, Salsify, Circana) reflects efforts to tie together supply chain, product information, and demand planning across wholesale, retail, and emerging duty-free channels.
Ghirardelli manufactures and markets premium chocolate products with a rare capability: control of the entire production chain from cocoa bean sourcing through finished goods. The company operates across multiple channels — wholesale, retail, foodservice, and duty-free travel retail — with headquarters in San Leandro, California. Current initiatives focus on international market expansion, building brand presence in new regions, and developing quality assurance programs to support growth. The organization is actively hiring across sales, operations, and supply chain functions in the United States and Canada.
Ghirardelli runs SAP (ERP), Salsify (product information), Circana (demand planning), MICROS POS systems, and ADP for HR, alongside Microsoft Office and AutoCAD.
Yes. Sales represents 18 of 34 active open roles (as of latest update), with hiring velocity accelerating across the United States and Canada.
Active projects include e-commerce expansion in the northwest, duty-free global travel retail growth, international business strategy, unified sales dashboards, and product data synchronization with trading partners.
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