Expansion Associate Job at CookUnity, New York, NY

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  • CookUnity
  • New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description

About CookUnity

Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity delivers 35 million meals a year from the industry's best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.

Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.

If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you've found the right job posting.

About the role:

As an Expansion Associate , you're a crucial player to launching and expanding CookUnity operations and ensuring the success from Day 1. You will gain exposure to all critical components of our development lifecycle including business strategy, real estate markets, production design, construction, entrepreneurship, culinary operations, technology, business development, and capital management. You will work with cross functional leaders internally and with partners externally to deliver world class and state-of-the-art infrastructure, frameworks and strategic thinking to everything we do.

This is an exciting position that allows you to build and improve our business model across iconic culinary cities in the US and Internationally—in doing so pollinating our mission globally.

Responsibilities
  • Strategic Planning Execution:
    • Contribute to strategic decision-making via modeling and analysis, rigorous project planning, and the entrepreneurial approach required to launch in new markets and expand existing ones.
    • Codify and refine the tools of our GTM expansion playbook.
    • Partner with our finance team to manage our CapEx budget and ensure accurate and streamlined reporting
    • Support strategic pilots to help expand our footprint beyond our core offering.
  • Expansion Program Management
    • Execute and manage new facility launches—from kickoff to day 1 of operations.
    • Manage timelines, tasks, vendors, and budgets, for all expansion projects both short and long term to ensure on time and on budget completion.
    • Uphold our team OKRs progress to high standards by managing, updating and evaluating progress on our critical objectives and key results for the year
  • Market Expansion Operations Support:
    • Improve our GTM project management tools and frameworks to enable faster and more efficient launches.
    • Uphold the highest standards by managing compliance and diligence efforts with regulating entities
  • Data Analysis Business Modeling:
    • Interpret and leverage large sets of proprietary data to generate insights and inform business recommendations.
    • Support growth efforts by analyzing market development cycles, refining occupancy and capital deployment models, and creating production capacity, spacial allocation, and other critical infrastructure planning analysis frameworks.
  • Operational Improvements Vendor Management:
    • Assess areas for operational improvement via Capital Investment projects.
    • Oversee vendor bid management and support negotiations for Capital projects.
    • Develop and implement standard operating procedures for our RFP to BID workflow.
    • Ensure smooth handoff and rollout of market-specific process improvements.
    • Aid in discovering cost optimization recommendations and implementing them.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    • Lead Cross-functional collaboration (CX, product, Chef Ops, Supply Chain) to improve the eater experience and the chef experience while delivering operational improvements via technology and automation project implementation support.
    • Serve as a trusted strategic partner for cross functional initiatives by partnering with internal stakeholders to drive process improvements that support scalability and efficiency.
Qualifications
  • Proven experience (3-4 years) in Management or Strategy Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity.
  • A data-driven thinker with a Bachelor's Degree (preferred fields: Hospitality, Business Administration, Economics, Real Estate Development, Industrial Engineering.
  • Highly effective at managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
  • Meticulous, detail-oriented, and vigilant in execution.
  • Rigorous in analysis and ruthless in prioritization - Slow thining, Fast Acting.
  • A problem solver who challenges the status quo and seeks creative solutions.
  • An excellent communicator with the ability to adapt tone to different stakeholders.
  • A proven entrepreneurial achiever or leader.
  • Energetic and resourceful, comfortable with a project-based role across multiple geos.
  • Master proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, familiar with BI E-Commerce tools like Tableau
  • Ability to quickly learn and master new tools and online platforms/software.
  • Deep interest in AI for real word applications.
  • A strong executor who balances structure with flexibility.
  • Passionate about CookUnity's mission and eager to reshape the way people eat.
Benefits

Health Insurance coverage

401k Plan

Unlimited PTO

???5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

Paid Family leave

Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises

A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly

?Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle

?Personalized Spanish coach

Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!

#ENG1P

Compensation All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Pay Range for this position

$70,000 - $84,000 USD

If you're interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we'll get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

Job Tags

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