People Operations Business Partner, CookUnity
$100-110k
+ Stock options and bi-annual performance bonus
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
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Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-110k
+ Stock options and bi-annual performance bonus
More information about location
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ HR generalist experience within a fast-paced environment (ideally production or warehouse/ logistics)
- Demonstrable experience in dealing with an employee relations caseload, i.e., absence management, performance management, disciplinary actions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to assess situations and make judgments based on practice or previous experience
- Experience supporting hourly, front-line employee populations
- Experience supporting Toronto operations is a plus
- Experience working with HR systems (E.G, Rippling)
- Strong knowledge of employment, labor laws, and regulations
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) required
What the job involves
- We are looking for an HR Business Partner to provide operational and strategic HR support to our employees in our Chicago, Toronto & Austin facilities
- As the HR Business Partner, you will be critical in providing HR leadership to our growing workforce and ensuring a safe, productive, inclusive, and engaging work environment
- This role is the direct business partner to culinary, food safety, fulfillment, marketplace & logistics groups, including exempt employees and a large multi-unit hourly workforce
- You’ll focus your efforts on developing and improving our HR processes focused on talent management, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, and employee engagement
- You will be based out of our Chicago office and work out in our facility 4 times a week (Flexible/ Hybrid), providing remote assistance to Toronto & Austin, and traveling to those facilities quarterly and based on business needs
- Be the designated HR point of contact for our Operations Management Team for our Chicago, Toronto & Austin facilities
- Partner with Talent Acquisition, Payroll & Benefits, and Legal teams with managing all aspects of the employee life cycle, including recruitment, onboarding, promotions, job changes, leaves of absence, relocations, immigration issues, terminations, and the exit process
- Maintains in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance
- Guide, coach, mentor, and develop business partners in the areas of performance management and talent development
- Employee Relations: Provide HR consulting expertise to all levels of management and employees. Consults with employees and managers to address root causes of issues and resolves them through a systematic and analytical approach, including investigations
- Create succession planning and talent development strategies for your locations, identifying critical roles and preparing potential talent and pipelines, mentoring, training, etc
- Securely manage physical and digital files for employees and their documents, benefits, and attendance records
- Manage and generate employment documents including offer letters, wage notices, promotion letters, and pay rate change letters
- Assist managers with disciplinary actions, including terminations
- Support organizational change initiatives (restructures, system implementations, M&A activity)
- Conduct exit interviews and develop plans to enhance employee retention
Our take
CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.
The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.
While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.
With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2023
$47m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$47m
SERIES B
Total funding: $119.3m
Company benefits
- 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
- 🐣 Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
- 🕯 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
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(CEO)Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.
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