Associate Project Manager (Innovation + Operations)
About Daily Harvest
Daily Harvest makes nourishing food built on fruits and vegetables accessible. We do this by delivering thoughtfully sourced, chef-crafted food to customers' doorsteps, all ready to enjoy in minutes. We’re on a mission to take care of food, so food can take care of you.
Our team is collaborative, driven, and future-thinking. We're constantly learning, experimenting, and iterating, and celebrate failure just as much as success. We take risks, try new things, and we get things done. We love adaptogens and cruciferous vegetables but never say no to cake. Everything we do, we do in the service of our community.
Position Overview
Daily Harvest is looking for an Associate Project Manager to join our Operations + Innovation team! This team operationalizes the Daily Harvest mission from conception to customer delivery. We source ingredients and build supply chains, ideate on new recipes, create sustainable packaging solutions, ensure food safety, and instill production capabilities that benefit our customers, our partners, and our planet. All of this is done to ensure on-time, high-quality deliveries and a seamless experience for our customers.
Positioned at the fulcrum of our innovation strategy, R&D, and manufacturing workstreams, the Innovation Commercialization team is responsible for initiating and executing new product launches and existing product optimizations by developing realistic timelines, producing repeatable risk-management frameworks and building relationships with internal and external business partners. The Associate Project Manager will be responsible for leading all optimizations across our entire product portfolio. You will help to shape the strategy guiding our optimization decisions, build R&D and supply chain capabilities to match our growing scale, and gain exposure to critical functions across the organization. This role will allow you to expand your analytical and critical thinking skills while gaining experience at a fun-loving, fast-growing start up.
What you’ll do:
- Develop the strategy/framework guiding why, when, and how optimization decisions are made and executed.
- Enhance our current tools/systems to provide greater visibility into the optimizations workflow and extend our view of upcoming changes to more accurately resource across all Operations + Innovation departments/functions.
- Live for the details: gather and incorporate inventory data to inform effective rollout timelines and limit unnecessary manufacturing waste.
- Become an expert on the Daily Harvest product portfolio in order to manage the new product artwork proofing process and corresponding database of product information.
- Communicate with external partners to manage manufacturing workflow and optimization execution.
- Present optimization updates to cross-functional leadership on a regular cadence to drive continuous improvement throughout our product portfolio.
Who you are:
- You have a B.S. in Engineering, Supply Chain, Food Science, or a related field.
- You have 3+ years managing cross-functional projects with an operational focus, preferably within an early- to mid- stage startup environment. PMP certification or other project management coursework is a plus.
- You must be comfortable operating in ambiguity: your ability to self-start, identify opportunities for process improvement and “fix things” is one of your strongest attributes, but you also have the ability to follow well-defined processes when trailblazing a new path isn’t value-added.
- You are entrepreneurial, and you have strong business acumen that you are able to leverage when communicating with a diverse group of business partners.
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills, and you are comfortable presenting your work to cross-functional leadership teams.
- You are passionate about whole fruits & vegetables and wellness via proper nutrition.
- Proficiency in Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides) + Excel is a plus.
Benefits:
- Unlimited Daily Harvest in the office to keep you hustling, not hangry + cold brew (...always stocked)
- Flexible time-off policy + flexible working hours (Unlimited PTO Plan)
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K + equity participation
- Ancillary benefits: Commuter, Gym membership + Citi Bike discounts
- Access to everything we make (including recipes in development)
- Annual company retreat
- Quarterly team outings, weekly onsite happy hours, + regular DH team gatherings to celebrate our co-workers
- Book club + running club
- Showers for post-morning or mid-workday workouts
- A dynamic, ambitious, and fun work environment + dog friendly!!
At Daily Harvest, our mission is to take care of food, so that food can take care of you. And it wouldn't be possible without our team. We celebrate the unique POV that each person brings to the table and believe in a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. These are our guiding principles and apply across all aspects of employment.