Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 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 ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved.
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. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings.
The Senior Manager of Menu Strategy plays a key role in the success of Home Chef’s 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 execution
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 execution
- Integrate voice of customer into all aspects of the work and cooperate with Consumer Insights to transform these learnings into tangible actions
Cross-Departmental Collaboration and Execution:
- 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 execution 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 long-term product vision for the respective vertical and ensure alignment across Home Chef teams
This position requires 10-20% 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.
- Bachelor’s Degree. An advanced degree is a plus 3-6 years of experience in a rigorous fast-paced work environment – CPG/FMCG, product development, innovation, consulting, startups
- Ability to work within a scrappy ambiguous fast-moving environment
- Extremely detail-oriented and organized with the ability to develop and make progress against multiple concurrent project plans
- Data-driven 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
- Self-starter 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 fast-changing priorities and ambiguity
- No ego team player excited to solve a wide range of challenges
- 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
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 next-level 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 results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that you’ll 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 [email protected].
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.
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Home Chef Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Home Chef and has not been reviewed or approved by Home Chef.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision alongside life and disability insurance. Coverage is described as available across postings and the careers site, implying a broad baseline offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with company match, which strengthens total rewards beyond base pay. The presence of matching contributions is repeatedly listed as part of the standard package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks add incremental value through items like weekly pay for hourly roles, meal credits/lunch, commuter benefits, and a modest home-office stipend for remote employees. Employee discounts on Home Chef and Kroger banners can provide tangible everyday savings.
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What We Do
Home Chef was founded in 2013 with a simple goal: to provide everything our customers need to bring more delicious meals and moments to the table. Home Chef provides approachable and delicious meal solutions, delivering all of the fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and easy to follow recipes to make enjoying a home-cooked meal a simply delicious experience every time. In 2018 Home Chef finalized a merger with The Kroger Co. to accelerate the availability of meal kits and position the combined company to lead the way in revolutionizing how families shop for, prep and cook their meals. By late 2019, Home Chef had expanded its retail footprint to more than 2,500 Kroger grocery stores across the U.S.
Why Work With Us
At Home Chef, we promote from within and are always looking for new ideas in a collaborative environment. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where the essential ingredients - psychological safety, empathy, awareness and growth mindset - are embraced by people of diverse backgrounds and by all levels of the organization.
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