Menu Planner, Expanded Menus

About the Role

Reporting to Senior Manager, Data Reporting, you will lead the weekly menu planning for our expanded menus across both HF & CP Brands, covering Surcharges, Add-ons and MODs, creating the best menu experience for our customers while ensuring we achieve our COGS, Recipe Score, and menu variety targets. This role will be a key liaison between the Operations and Product teams, and will drive discussions around new product offerings, ingredient and recipe improvement and cost saving opportunities. You will lead continuous improvement projects for various business partners, including Physical Product, Supply Planning, Strategic Sourcing, Recipe Development, and Culinary Menu Strategy to create the best menu and product possible.

What you will be doing:

• Lead the weekly Expanded Menu Planning functions, ensuring that we are constantly improving our approach and outcomes
• Shape decisions around the food voice of our customers and how it aligns to the product and culinary menu strategy visions, by being involved in weekly conversations with both teams
• Input into the Recipe Development process: support in the content, budget, process flow, and analysis that drive weekly briefing to the Culinary team, seeking to maximize customer satisfaction while managing operational constraints
• Inform ingredient onboarding strategy based on analysis of internal data sources and external market insights.
• Support the automation of information flows and sharing processes across the team.
• Ensure achievement of our COGS, score, and variety targets, driving value engineering initiatives while balancing the needs and wants of our customers
• Use data to identify opportunities to improve our product offerings (e.g., MSS, Recipe Score, Uptake)
• Support the launch of net new products and product offerings to customers, ensuring all Menu Planning and downstream stakeholder timelines are met

At a minimum, you have: 

• 2+ years of experience in a continuous improvement, planning, Food Development or role with a physical product
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and ability to explain complex topics to business stakeholders
• Growth / Continuous Improvement Mindset
• Advanced Google Sheets / Excel
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• A great knowledge of ingredients and cooking, with a keen eye for spotting food trends and exciting ingredients
• Demonstrated ability to structure findings and develop recommendations for multiple functions
• Experience in recipe testing and/or development 

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and health benefits
• 75% discount on HelloFresh or Chefs Plate weekly box subscription
• High impact work to help feed thousands of families in Canada
• Opportunity to learn and grow
• Work with a hard-working and supportive team

Working Conditions:

It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.

If this sounds like you, please click the "Apply Now" button. If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, but you'd like to know more about joining the HelloFresh team, please visit our Jobs page to view our other vacancies. We'd love to hear from you!

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