Expansion Manager, CookUnity
$115-135k
More information about location
1 day a week in office
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
Open for applications
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$115-135k
More information about location
1 day 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
- Proven experience (3-5 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
What the job involves
- As an Expansion Manager, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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