Every·2 months ago
2 months ago
Senior Portfolio Culinary Manager (m/f/d)
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What you'll do
- Own the full development cycle for the Lunch and Dinner meal portfolio across core producer relationships: briefing, ingredient sourcing, recipe development, tasting, nutritional validation, packaging lock-in, launch coordination, post-launch optimisation, and commercial review.
- Manage the add-on portfolio on a continuous optimisation cadence: ongoing performance review, SKU scoring, and category strategy rather than milestone-based pipeline execution.
- Strategic oversight of producer lanes covering pipeline and optimisation, in close partnership with Quality Management on quality-related topics.
- Serve as the primary OPS procurement liaison when decisions directly affect the culinary customer experience.
- Lead portfolio performance reviews and SKU scoring across owned categories.
- Design and operate a post-launch review framework.
- Synthesise customer insight and feed findings into roadmap planning.
- Track weighted average CM1 margin and drive directional improvement per lane by Q1 2027.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in food product management, culinary product, or category management in FMCG or D2C food context.
- Direct experience managing producer or supplier relationships end to end.
- Commercial track record: you have managed margin, COGS, and performance data as part of your core work.
- Strong commercial instinct: you track what is working and act on what is not.
- Ability to build trust with producers and internal stakeholders quickly.
- Comfortable managing across two very different operational rhythms simultaneously.
- Data-driven approach to portfolio decisions, including CM1 and attachment rate analysis.
- You do not wait for systems to be built. You build them.
- Operates independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Strong communicator across functions: OPS, Marketing, Digital Product, Quality Management.
- A genuine interest in food and how people eat, not just as a category but as something that matters.
- Fluent in English
Nice to have
- German is a plus but not mandatory.
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Berlin, Germany
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