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Operations Manager

Methodology
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Methodology is a top-rated, premium healthy meal delivery and wellness company. We offer chef-designed “clean, comforting, nutritional food” through our weekly meal subscription service. We're on a mission to empower people to eat the best food in the world, healing bodies and minds with food as medicine. Many people today have already fallen in love with our food but we don’t want to stop there — we’re passionate about the continuous improvement of our product and growing the Methodology community. 

If you have a passion for food, wellness, making healthy meals delicious, and could see yourself helping us build a movement-driving, revolutionary food and lifestyle brand we’d love to meet you. We're looking for an experienced chef to join our team who will take us into our next chapter and insert their culinary expertise to enhance our operations. This is an exciting opportunity to join the culinary team of an emerging brand with a fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture. You'll be entrusted to build and lead a team with a strong kitchen presence as well as get creative and design new menu concepts.

As Operations Manager, you’ll work cross-functionally across the span of an entire company. We’re actively searching for someone committed to helping Methodology build the most thoughtful, beloved, impactful food/lifestyle brand in America.

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This is an exciting opportunity to direct the operations team of an emerging brand with a fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture. You'll be entrusted to build and lead a team with a strong on-the-floor presence as well as creatively problem solve operational challenges and upgrades. This is a highly visible role that acts as a force multiplier ensuring efficiency while instilling the highest quality of our product experience.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop a logistics team that can balance all receiving, material handling, shipping, and inventory control between HQ and warehouses.
  • Plan for ensuring 100% of our deliveries are out and on time.
  • Stabilize our delivery vendors, and have a clear outlook on how to reduce cost while improving accuracy.
  • Develop innovative solutions to manage JIT inventory.
  • Prepare daily, pre/post-event, and monthly inventories, including walk-in refrigerators and freezers, F&B storage areas, and equipment.
  • Maintain cleanliness of walk-in refrigerators, freezers, and storage areas according to established procedures.
  • Reports all unsafe working conditions, operational needs, and equipment or aspects of the kitchen in need of repair to senior management.
  • Properly rotate and monitor the storage of all purchased products according to established handling procedures
  • Create a clear plan for maintaining accident-free work record while producing a quality product with high levels of efficiency.
  • Comply with, enforce, and educate team members on food safety, GMPs.
  • Overall leadership and day-to-day operation of the HQ facility.
  • Comprehensive understanding of key supply chain processes and accountable for the development and achievement of monthly, annual, and long-term operational, logistics, planning and production plans & goals.
  • Owning operational improvement initiatives related to the cost, efficiency, waste, quality, safety, and environmental management of all facility operations.
  • Responsible for hiring, managing, and training logistics staff.
  • Responsible to cross-train the entire logistics team to ensure that delivery errors are minimized
  • Build and nurture a team environment under a quickly evolving growth curve that fosters individual growth and opportunity in alignment with the company culture.
  • Implement cost-effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, and production team.

Skills & Qualities:
  • Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) or equivalent; or ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Necessary to have a strong background in building effective teams.
  • Senior management level experience in relevant supply chain AND operations management functions including at least 5 years in a manufacturing leadership role.
  • CPG or eCommerce products experience required with food and beverage background at a mid-to-large scale manufacturer of perishable food strongly preferred.
  • Inventory control management with a background in building/improving warehouse management or inventory tracking systems.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Thorough knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices and Standard Operating Procedures within the food manufacturing industry.
  • Previous exposure to, and demonstrated success in, a fast-paced high-growth business environment.
  • Proven ability to lead, manage, and motivate periods of change and disruption, fosters a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Has the ability to lead the buildout of a new facility with high efficiency and limited CAPEX (smart and scrappy).
  • Experience with being able to maintain different types of food manufacturing equipment.
  • Extremely knowledgeable about foods for various health outcomes.
  • Culinary background is nice to have.
  • A strong contract-manufacturer network is nice to have.

Benefits:
  • The opportunity to do meaningful work and help people live healthier, more vibrant lives through food.
  • Generous compensation + bonuses.
  • Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision.
  • Plentiful Methodology food at HQ to keep you operating at your best!