Home Chef is building new ways to provide meal solutions that meet a wide variety of customer needs, and shipping locations both online and in store. Our team is a unique mix of creators, chefs, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers and we’re growing quickly. Our customer-first mentality, combined with a zest for supporting our peers, helped us bring home Built in Chicago’s Startup of the Year Moxie award in 2017. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.

As the COVID-19 situation continues to escalate in the US and around the world, we are committed to keeping our teams and their families as our greatest priority. To that end, we are making some adjustments to the way we will be doing business in the upcoming weeks.

We are taking all the necessary precautions to keep our employees and customers safe, and would love to have you on our team as we can continue to serve our communities.

This role supports the fast paced strategic growth of Home Chef’s retail business via its marketing efforts. The Sr Associate, Retail Marketing coordinates and executes the go to market strategy, customer messaging and activation tactics for Home Chef retail products within Kroger. This role requires a high level of collaboration working cross functionally with teams both internally at Home Chef and with our partners at Kroger’s general office in Cincinnati, Kroger divisions (including Mariano’s & Harris Teeter) as well as Kroger’s data partner, 84.51.

Manage the planning and execution of Home Chef’s retail marketing plans for the Meat Dept and Holiday programs:

• Develop quarterly plans to include promotional and shopper support in and out of store 
• Manage all packaging and merchandising plans and executions 
• Manage marketing calendar to ensure tactics are correctly planned & tracked
• Develop internal creative briefs to ensure messaging and approach is consistent across tactic
• Own timelines and work cross functionally with key stakeholders to meet tactic deadlines
• Communicate retail marketing execution plans with broader cross functional team members including Kroger category managers

Analyze and track the performance of retail marketing executions:

• Analyze performance of marketing tactics, develop and report out key insights monthly
• Recommend program improvements based on key data insights
• Analyze promotional spend to ensure successful net revenue targets
• Track KPIs for each executed marketing tactic monthly
• Manage the relationships with reporting key contacts at Home Chef, Kroger & 84.51 data science teams

In depth analysis of the Home Chef retail shopper:

• Use 84.51 Stratum to develop an ongoing review of the Home Chef shopper at Kroger
• Explore key insights to find better ways to target, acquire, reward the Home Chef shopperManage the relationship with key contacts at 84.51
• Merchandising Insights team

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Individuals who are motivated, hungry to learn, data-driven and eager to get valuable hands-on experience will be rewarded with opportunities to grow within this role
• 4+ years of experience in a rigorous fast-paced work environment – CPG, manufacturing, data analytics, consulting, etc
• Completion of a four-year degree program in a related field
• Professional communication and relationship building skills
• Previous experience with Kroger or other grocery retailer preferred
• Previous experience with fresh/perishable products preferred
• Previous marketing experience preferredAdvanced analytical and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to prioritize work
• Exceptional Excel/Google Sheets analytics with an innate feel for numbersIndependent self-starter, driven to find solutions without significant oversight
• Intellectually curious, with a strong interest in the food, e-commerce and start-up space
• Results driven active problem solver with a natural desire to get things done

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Perks/Benefits:

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – benefits start the 1st day of the month following your start date 

- Company paid Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability

- 401k Employer match - 50% on the $1, up to 6% of the employee's earnings 

- We offer flexible spending accounts (FSA) for qualified Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, or Transit expenses

- Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days 

- Generous Parental Leave 

- Great Work/Life Balance – We value and support each individual team member

- Quarterly company-wide “Town Hall” meetings 

- Ongoing professional development opportunities by level and function

- Your choice of Windows or Mac laptop, plus an extra screen 

- Onsite gym 

- Weekly Fooda credit

- Newly renovated office in the historic Old Main Post Office which is located close to multiple Metra and CTA options

- Employee discounts through Perkspot

- Discounts on Home Chef meal kits and at Kroger stores

- Casual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment

Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!

Home Chef is an equal opportunity employer.

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