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Senior Manager
| Company | Blue Bottle Coffee |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $140000 – $150000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 7 years of experience in the food and beverage industry.
- Managed driving revenue, COGS, and or other aspects of a P&L
- Experience in product development, management, merchandising, or similar fields.
- An exceptional palate and deep understanding of culinary and related categories.
- Ability to utilize data and create analytical frameworks, visualizing data for stakeholders.
- Familiarity with tools like Sigma, Tableau, etc., for data analysis.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of US Culinary Strategy and own the operations within the US Culinary department.
- Work closely with the US GM and Head of Product to prioritize culinary needs that align with our brand strategies.
- Develop a future approach and product strategy across all in-cafe culinary, grab-and-go, cold case, and future culinary offerings as merchandise or partnerships/collaborations.
- Be responsible for P&L accountability to all culinary performance as defined by the categories above (determined by standard performance indicators, e.g.sales and gross margin).
- Work alongside the West Sacramento R&D team to ensure that developed recipes and final products meet the sensory, business, and timetable requirements for execution and performance.
- Responsible for detailed menu requirement development and associated business performance as a key consultant for cafe format development teams and ownership of the final, localized US menus for these formats.
- Serve as sensory decision-maker in culinary with responsibility to taste and approve all US culinary products (internal or external).
- Hire, train, manage, and develop the US culinary specialists.
- Work within Blue Bottle I2L to ensure product briefs and business requirements are delivered on time and support commercial needs.
- Provide transparent reporting and performance management to senior leadership to ensure continual evaluation and adaptation of the portfolios
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and link approaches to strategic focus and performance objectives.
- Evaluate and co-create offerings with bakery partners/co-mans and lead the business requirements for all culinary product development.
- Conduct field research to discover new food trends and techniques and develop new food concepts.
- Partner with Operational Excellence to build new equipment relationships and develop LT equipment strategy.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
