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.

Home Chef is building a meal solutions destination within retail and the Category Development Manager has the exciting opportunity to develop the brand across a whole new set of product lines! This person will be responsible for identifying, prioritizing, analyzing and leading the development of these new products and product categories to build the Home Chef retail portfolio.

Category management:

• Manage a portfolio of products and categories, with multiple initiatives in flight at any given time
• Oversee development process --competitive analysis and insights, co-owning brief development, managing rollout planning, setting pricing, etc. 
• Implement category ‘test and learn’ initiatives - not just conceptualize solutions, but actually bring them to life
• Work closely with and regularly respond to stakeholders (internal, Kroger and 3rd party vendors) on category development to ensure the needs of the project and stakeholders are being met 
• Work with cross functional teams, in and outside the company, and prioritize stakeholder feedback as received 
• Develop well-thought out, data driven solutions and answers to strategic questions and challenges

Data Analysis and Reporting:

• Build reporting tools to help synthesize and present data in accessible ways, such as dashboards or auto generated reports and emails 
• Analyze results from ‘test and learn’ pilots and develop recommendations for future rollouts, product assortment, etc.
• Work with Home Chef and Kroger data sources to understand elements of the business such as customer behavior, sales, and internal performance metrics 
• Develop solutions to automate certain manual or repetitive processes

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.

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field of study
• 3+ years program, category and/or project management experience
• Familiarity with grocery, retail and / or CPG industry
• Strong ownership mindset 
• Prioritization and project management skills
• Experience documenting processes, procedures, and rationales for projects and initiatives
• Experience in data driven problem solving such as correlation analysis 
• Understanding of basic statistical concepts such as standard deviation
• Comfort working with large data sets, multiple data sources, and linking tab workbooks
• Proactive problem solver -- rather than just identifying a problem, figures out how to solve it -- what is needed, whose buy in is needed, and how to get i fixed
• No-ego utility player who is comfortable presenting at senior staff meetings or helping a colleague debug a malfunctioning Google Sheets model
• Thrives in an atmosphere of constant change and comfort with ambiguity
• Experience communicating initiatives and projects, with rationales for them, both via written and spoken channels
• Able to present data driven analysis succinctly and clearly 
• Strong experience working in Google Sheets and/or Excel, Google Slides, Powerpoint, or other presentation tool

Approximately 10-20% travel is required

Perks/Benefits:

- Direct access to senior management – our leadership team works alongside our team members every day

- 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

- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses

- 401k program

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

- Quarterly company-wide “Town Hall” meetings 

- Ongoing professional development opportunities by level and function

- Your choice of Windows or Mac laptop

- Onsite gym 

- Free water taxi for Wrigley Building employees (seasonal) 

- Catered lunch every Friday plus snacks and beverages on hand every day

- 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 employment opportunity employer