Home Chef is building new ways to navigate the booming meal kit delivery industry. 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.

The Special Projects Manager - Data position sits on the culinary team and is responsible for delivering culinary data needs; no culinary experience required, but a passion for food is a plus. This is an opportunity for a data and process-oriented individual to develop & drive strategic initiatives that measurably move the team towards their overall goals. This role will be primary point person working with our data team in prioritizing team needs to and from the data platform, managing culinary analytics, reporting, exploration, and modeling. They identify opportunity areas with key stakeholders to ensure the team is moving forward on step-change projects, i.e. intelligent process design that enables smarter decision-making by stakeholders.

Responsibility Area: Special Projects

• Work with leaders in product team to identify top areas of opportunity, balancing new product development initiatives and day-to-day business needs
• Collaborate with the culinary team to create buy-in and understand potential (cost, complexity, customer) impact of project on customers and within the company
• Act as the project manager for implementation of most critical or impactful culinary initiatives, ensuring projects or initiatives deliver value
• Create data- and research-driven strategies for one-time projects from ideation to implementation and review, driving projects forward for timely/efficient

Responsibility Area: Data Analysis

• Research and spec out internal department data needs, ensuring optimal frequency, accessibility, and accuracy of culinary data Represent culinary priorities in cross-functional data team, driving changes and implementation
• Internally communicate clear timelines for projects, and hold external stakeholders to expectations
• Test data implementation initiatives for adherence to spec and provide as-needed support in data transfer projects

Responsibility Area: Process Design & Improvement

• Identify and execute projects that initiate step-change improvements and empower team to make better processes
• Create sustainable, trainable, and scalable processes within culinary that stakeholders use daily
• Develop responsibility owners on processes & empower them to adapt and add on to the work
• Create accessible, usable scorecards for each department and processes for tracking individual success KPIs

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.

• Strong prioritization and project management skills
• SQL experience preferred; strong understanding of Looker a plus
• Experience in driving large-scale, high-impact execution
• Bonus: execute on data modeling & advanced analytics to deliver business insights & growth
• Excellent communication skills, with experience creating buy-in with a range of stakeholders
• Proactive in identifying problems and finding innovative solutions
• Ability to understand the big picture as well as exceptional attention to detail
• Skilled at dealing with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced environment
• Flexible & thrive in an environment of constant change
• MBA or consulting background preferred

Perks and Benefits:- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your firstorder!- Direct access to senior management – our leadership team works alongside our team members every day- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance- Generous paid time off (PTO) policy- 401k program- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses- Free water taxi, discounted gym membership, and daily bike storage for Wrigley building employees- Cold brew coffee on tap at no charge- Employee discounts for Home Chef meal kits- Free lunch every Friday and snacks and beverages on hand every day- Casual dress Home Chef is an equal employment opportunity employer