Senior Manager Menu Strategy
Senior Manager Menu Strategy
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$ 115000 - 135000
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Job Description
Founded in 2013 Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at in retail at more than 2100 Kroger grocery stores Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple delicious meals no matter how busy they are.
In 2023 Home Chef introduced a new brand Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of readytoheat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are betterforyou versions of familiar favorites designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are proteinpacked fiberrich calorie and carb conscious ketofriendly and dietitianapproved.
Similar to our recipes we recognize that variety is the spice of life and therefore our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. Were eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic nextlevel thinkers to innovate on Home Chefs offerings.
The Senior Manager of Menu Strategy plays a key role in the success of Home Chefs business by running projects within a key team of the menu and culinary process. The candidate will be responsible for ideating vetting and developing product ideas within their vertical and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to bring these products to life.
The position is part of the Culinary team within Product and reports to a VP of Product. The role is based in Chicago IL with some travel.
Detailed Responsibilities
Product Line Ownership
- Run projects within their respective menu vertical(s) (e.g. Extras Family etc. and serve as a partner within Culinary in thinking about the next generation of products
- Provide input into future road maps and do everything necessary to ensure successful completion of the related projects
- Communicate and build alignment with internal and external stakeholders to remove roadblocks and prioritize projects
- Identify subtasks and smaller scale projects to collaborate with other Menu Strategy team members with oversight to ensure successful
Innovation & New Product Development
- Work with all available internal and external stakeholders to innovate ideate and develop new products processes and customer experiences
- Source and stress test new product ideas in collaboration with Consumer Insights Supply Chain Marketing Finance Culinary Operations teams
- Interpret data research and trends that impact the meal solutions eCommerce space and develop actionable insights for
- Integrate voice of customer into all aspects of the work and cooperate with Consumer Insights to transform these learnings into tangible actions
CrossDepartmental Collaboration and :
- Collaborate internally with Culinary Supply Chain Marketing Finance Ops and others to ensure smooth and successful delivery of projects
- Lead working teams to bring new projects from idea generation to full and rollout
- Communicate ongoing project updates and priorities within Home Chef to ensure organizational alignment
- Develop and source all inputs to shepherd projects through the Home Chef stage gate process
Product Strategy
- Seek to optimize launched products thinking through ways to drive improvements to the top and bottom line
- Quantify both historical decisions and future recommendations bringing forth data driven decisions
- Collaborate on best practices and share learnings with peers working on other product types
- Set the mid to longterm product vision for the respective vertical and ensure alignment across Home Chef teams
This position requires 1020 travel.
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- Bachelors Degree. An advanced degree is a plus 36 years of experience in a rigorous fastpaced work environment CPG/FMCG product development innovation consulting startups
- Ability to work within a spy ambiguous fastmoving environment
- Extremely detailoriented and organized with the ability to develop and make progress against multiple concurrent project plans
- Datadriven decision maker who can use data to drive validate and make progress against potential courses of action
- Ideal candidate will have experience working in the fresh and packaged food space
- Selfstarter inclined towards finding solutions and who is comfortable working independently and with a team
- Strong communicator and relationship builder
- Intellectually curious
- Must have a sense of urgency and be capable of dealing with fastchanging priorities and ambiguity
- No ego team player excited to solve a wide range of challenges
More About Us
Perks and Benefits
- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
- Medical dental vision life and disability insurance available
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation time
- 401k program
- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical dependent care parking or transit expenses
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic nextlevel thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems prepared to dive in get curious and learn more. We are resultsdriven always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities backgrounds and perspectives. You can trust that youll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
We welcome people of all races colors religions national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disabilities pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law.
Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact our People team at.
Home Chef offers the base salary range as posted below with the exact offer depending on factors such as geographic location experience skills and internal equity. While compensation is within the provided range it is not typical for offers to be made at the upper end. In addition to base salary Home Chef provides a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare coverage 401k match and paid time off.
Illinois Pay Range
$115000 $135000 USD
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Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
