Food Product Associate - Rotational Program
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.
This program rotates through core responsibilities of the meal development process on our Product Team. The possible rotations could be in Culinary, Food Supply Chain, Retail, and New Product Development. Upon successful completion of three rotations, you may be placed into a longer-term role within the department or organization. The following are some potential rotations and responsibilities:
Recipe Editing Rotation
- Responsible for recipe editing duties include checking for accuracy, completeness, existence for 25+ cards on a rotating weekly basis
- Create accurate and error-free versions of recipe cards through editing stages and change management process
- Owns production of recipe cards for Beta-Tested meals
Photography Rotation
- You will support the photography output for Home Chef
- Help guide photography team’s plated shots using historical data and analysis
- Design and distribute photo surveys to current customers and distill learnings
New Product Development Rotation
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders from culinary, production, and marketing to implement projects
- Conduct market and supply chain research to help set project strategy
- Coordinate with suppliers, leading negotiations and arranging
- Perform financial analysis to determine project value
Packaging Rotation
- Help ensure Home Chef is sourcing the correct products from reliable vendors - safely and on time
- Work with cross functional stakeholders from food safety, culinary, and local supply chain teams to solve product shortages
- Build, maintain, and update tools and processes to improve daily communication between local teams and suppliers
Retail Rotation
- Assist in the creation and execution of Home Chef’s retail product
- Coordinate packaging timelines across multiple teams
- Own the setup and performance analysis of meals on the retail menus
- Serve as the retail liaison to the marketing team
- Identify downstream impacts of Marketing initiatives
Overarching Responsibilities
- Taste and provide feedback daily on all meals chefs develop, including red meat, vegetarian, soy, seafood, shellfish, and pork
- Ideate concepts for new, successful meals
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.
- Excel and Google Sheets capabilities
- Google Scripts familiarity preferred (candidates must have analytical skills to be successful)
- Minimum of an Associate’s Degree, Bachelor's Degree preferred
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
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Home Chef is an equal employment opportunity employer