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.

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. 

While most of us continue to work remotely, our newly renovated headquarters at the Old Post Office is open for voluntary return to work. Our organization is closely following the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and will share updates on our 2022 return to the office plan as soon as any decisions are made.

We're hiring a Fulfillment Special Projects Coordinator to help our ever busy operations teams. You will lead people strategy projects and work closely with the Fulfillment People Strategy Manager to provide support to our fulfillment centers.

Project lead for Home Chef people strategy initiatives:

• Lead complex people projects that are critical to Home Chef’s operations and HR teams collaborative goals
• Assists in developing detailed project plans to track and ensure project objectives and milestones are met on time, within scope and budget 
• Drives strong communication between corporate and fulfillment center to gain buy in and alignment on projects and priorities 
• Partners closely with the HR team to make impactful people related improvements (e.g. retention efforts, onboarding improvements, and operations organizational structure)
• Able to work through complex problems our operations teams are facing and leverage key stakeholders to achieve a resolution 

Drives continuous improvement initiatives:

• Drive impactful, lasting change through continuous improvement initiatives by working alongside managers, supervisors, team leads, and hourly employees 
• Able to influence department owners, plant employees and other key stakeholders to adopt new solutions and processes
• Partners with plant teams to review the effectiveness of initiatives
• Checks in with plant stakeholders after project implementation to ensure intended outcomes are met
• Ensures standardization across all three sites is maintained after implementation

Additional Responsibilities:

• Leads by example and embodies Home Chef values of Customer First, Best-in-Class Team, Ownership, Pursue Excellence, and Deliver Happiness.
• Cultivates a culture centered around pride in the workplace, positive motivation, mutual respect, alignment, and accountability.
• Adapts quickly and fluidly to rapidly changing projects and under dynamic conditions. 
• Be solutions-oriented in challenging contexts with multiple stakeholders.
• Committed to implementing solutions in operations that will create long-term value across the full business 

Qualifications:

• Completion of a four-year degree program in a related field
• At least 1 year experience with a consulting firm or 2 years in strategic/operational role in a fast-growing start-up or corporate environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills to structure, prioritize and resolve issues 
• At least 2 years experience of project management skills with a focus on rigorous prioritization 
• Comfortable working with analytics tools (e.g. Excel, Google sheets) and complex data
• Able to envision tactical solutions that will work in hands-on operation environments with ease 
• Excellent verbal and written communicator 
• High aptitude for tightly organized planning and process management, and strong attention to detail 
• Interpersonal skills to work with team members in both production and corporate environments 
• This position requires 10%-25% travel




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

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Perks and benefits:

- 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

How We Work Together

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.

Be at Home at Home Chef

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 is an equal opportunity employer.

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