Website Territory Foods
Territory Foods is hiring a Culinary Manager based in the SF Bay Area to serve as the menu and meal architect and chef relationship cultivator for the region. Reporting to the Head of Culinary, you will be the owner of the local culinary operations. Teaming up with local chefs, and guided by customer feedback and metrics, you’ll be tasked with bringing delicious meals (and other products) that meet our anti-inflammatory criteria to our menu and ensuring our menu addresses our customers’ needs.
Responsibilities include chef recruiting, chef onboarding, menu curation, meal documentation, providing support when needed with ingredient sourcing, QA/QC, food safety, nutritional research & analysis and new product research and development. You’ll also be expected to assist in local testing of products and processes designed by senior culinary team members.
Specific Responsibilities Include:
- Recruiting, onboarding and management of chefs.
- Assisting in the design, documentation, and implementation of new recipes and menus that support local demand.
- Collaborate with local chefs and the Head of Culinary to continuously improve current meal and menu offering.
- Team up with local Operations Managers and QA/QC Managers to assist, when needed, in operational and administrative processes around quality assurance/quality control and ensured ingredient sourcing and compliance, food safety and regulatory compliance.
- Liaise with the Senior Manager of Nutrition to ensure meals and menus fit company nutritional parameters.
- Work collaboratively with Director of Partnerships to design and integrate key partnership products and meal concepts into the local menu
- Serve as our local chef personnel motivator and point of contact- This includes sharing values, managing chef personalities, and making yourself available for chefs when needed.
The must haves (Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications):
- You have passion for nutritious food, with a philosophical lean towards, anti-inflammatory eating and food tribes, like Paleo, Keto, Whole30 and Vegan.
- You have proven recipe design knowledge, including experience specifically aimed at a target food cost.
- You have prior experience in a professional kitchen. Including restaurants, food trucks, catering company, etc…and an understanding of cooking techniques, methodologies and lingo.
- You are ServSafe certified and/or willingness to achieve it (funded by Territory)
- You are highly organized, and make strong use of technology to model and track every project and detail.
- You are an amazing communicator, and have strong written and verbal communication skills
- You are a team player, and seek to collaborate with other stakeholders and teammates.
- You are a self-starter. You continually assesses optimal conditions for success, and make adjustments to environment, schedule, and priorities as needed.
- You keep a flexible schedule, with the ability to work mornings, evenings, and weekends when needed.
- College degree or AOS degree in Culinary Arts a plus
- Minimum 2 years of professional experience
- You are tech savvy- This position will require you to be fluent in the G-Suite (Drive, Docs, Sheets, gMail, etc). We operate on MacOS, and also use Slack and Asana. We also use Nutritics, which is a third party nutritional platform, and a custom built internal platform to communicate to our chef partners.
The Intangibles:
- You’re passionate about food, healthy eating, moving your body, and the magic that happens when they get together.
- You recognize there’s no one “book” for eating well and that everyone is different. To you, it’s important to balance broader nutritious guidelines with individual needs.
- You’re up with the latest nutrition trends and culinary trends. You know what we mean when we say Keto, Paleo, or Whole 30.
- Operational efficiency and detailed attentiveness is at your core, but you also love learning and deal well with course adjustments.
You strive for and understand that success means continuously putting smiles on customers’ faces. - You can interpret data, take direction and make decisions.
- You deliver on your promises in a timely manner and communicate every step of the way.
- You view honesty and integrity as a part of who you are and how you live your life.
- You’re comfortable turning on a dime and embracing rapid change.
- You can navigate a spectrum of chef personalities.
- Some nitty-gritty that matters:
- You’ll have a very flexible schedule, but your ability to manage your time properly will be critical to success.
- You will be held accountable for daily, weekly and monthly deliverables.
You’ll almost never be in an office. Working from home is a skill you’ll need to develop. - You will be expected to visit our local chefs regularly, so you should be comfortable in kitchen setting
- Every team member serves as part of our Quality Assurance team (translation: free chow in exchange for detailed feedback)
Our company is growing and evolving, your role, professional skills and development will as well. - We’re a food and wellness oriented team, so all our team members get free meals as well as company sponsored membership to wherever gives you health (CrossFit, yoga, multi-program, etc.)
Benefits & Perks
- Health, Dental & Vision plans
- Unlimited PTO & Sick Days
- Company-paid short-term disability and Life Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave programs
- Fully Remote Team
- Up to $150 monthly reimbursement for personal wellness expenses
- We’ll pay your cell phone bill up to $100 per month
- Receive and sample up to 10 of our meals every week for quality control (If you live in an area in which we operate)
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
