Senior Expansion Manager

undefined ago • 3-5 Years • $115,000 PA - $135,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Expansion Manager at CookUnity, you will play a crucial role in launching and expanding operations, ensuring success from day one. This position offers exposure to all critical components of our development lifecycle, including business strategy, real estate, production design, construction, culinary operations, and technology. You will collaborate with cross-functional leaders and external partners to deliver world-class infrastructure and strategic thinking. This exciting role allows you to build and improve our business model across iconic culinary cities in the US and internationally, furthering our mission to empower chefs and nourish the world.
Must have:
  • Contribute to strategic decision-making via modeling and analysis.
  • Codify and refine GTM expansion playbook tools.
  • Manage CapEx budget with finance team.
  • Support strategic pilots for footprint expansion.
  • Execute and manage new facility launches.
  • Manage timelines, tasks, vendors, and budgets for expansion projects.
  • Uphold OKRs progress to high standards.
  • Improve GTM project management tools and frameworks.
  • Manage compliance and diligence efforts with regulating entities.
  • Interpret and leverage proprietary data for insights.
  • Analyze market development cycles and refine models.
  • Create production capacity and infrastructure planning frameworks.
  • Assess areas for operational improvement via Capital Investment.
  • Oversee vendor bid management and support negotiations.
  • Develop and implement standard operating procedures for RFP to BID.
  • Ensure smooth handoff and rollout of market-specific process improvements.
  • Aid in discovering and implementing cost optimization recommendations.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration to improve eater and chef experience.
  • Serve as a trusted strategic partner for process improvements.
  • 3-5 years experience in Management or Strategy Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity.
  • Data-driven thinker.
  • 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.
  • Problem solver who challenges the status quo.
  • Excellent communicator.
  • Proven entrepreneurial achiever or leader.
  • Energetic and resourceful, comfortable with 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-world applications.
  • Strong executor who balances structure with flexibility.
  • Passionate about CookUnity’s mission.
Good to have:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Hospitality
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
  • Bachelor's Degree in Economics
  • Bachelor's Degree in Real Estate Development
  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering
Perks:
  • Health Insurance coverage
  • 401k Plan
  • Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
  • Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 5-year Sabbatical (4-week paid sabbatical after 5 years)
  • Paid Family leave
  • Compassionate Leave (3-5 days)
  • Generous CookUnity credits monthly
  • Wellness perks (nutritional coach, fitness subsidies)
  • Personalized Spanish coach
  • Opportunity to join a company changing how we eat and how chefs work

Job Details

About the role:

As a Senior Expansion Manager, you're a crucial player in 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, furthering our mission globally.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Planning & Execution:
  • 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.
  • Expansion Program Management
  • 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's OKRs progress to high standards by managing, updating and evaluating progress on our critical objectives and key results for the year
  • Market Expansion & Operations Support:
  • 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
  • Data Analysis & Business Modeling:
  • 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.
  • Operational Improvements & Vendor Management:
  • 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.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience of 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 thinking, 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-world applications.
  • A strong executor who balances structure with flexibility.
  • Passionate about CookUnity’s mission and eager to reshape the way people eat.

Benefits

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🩺 Health Insurance coverage

🌅 401k Plan

📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1

🌟 Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus

⛱ Unlimited PTO

🗓️ 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

🐣Paid Family leave

🕯 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

🌟 Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!

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