Senior Analyst, Continuous Improvement

Job Summary

Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.

Responsibilities

• Execute on strategic initiatives requiring advanced data and analytical support delivering projects that deliver results against key performance metrics.
• Continuously optimize production plans and planning tools to support plant function, and make routine plant knowledge automated for ease of execution.
• Partner closing with plant teams to establish process expertise and create trusted relationships to drive change.
• Develop models and methodologies to monitor success of multiple facets of the business (facility capacity, machinery usage, labor, production, etc.).
• Find innovative ways to make data actionable for our production teams - build processes to better collect, store, and visualize operational data in a meaningful and impactful way.
• Enable data-driven decision making by reporting on core KPIs and performing ad-hoc analyses.
• Set strategic priorities: Leverage fulfillment KPIs & reporting to identify and quantify opportunities for process improvement.
• Help team to structure project work and deliver clear, data-driven recommendations.
• Develop project recommendations through close work with the plant fulfillment leaders to pair opportunity with plant need.
• Collaborate with operations technology team: Develop V1.0 of tools and reporting to support efficiency and quality improvements at the plants.
• Partner with operations technology team as business lead in the development of technology-driven applications to implement in the plants.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in supply chain or operations analytics.
• Background in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math preferred.
• Excellent analytical skills; strong capabilities in Excel, Google Sheets and Google Scripts.
• 3+ years of experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS & common coding languages.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong prioritization and project management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience creating buy in with a range of stakeholders such as hourly employees, customers, suppliers, and executives.
• Proactive in identifying problems and finding innovative solutions.
• Able to understand the big picture as well as exceptional attention to detail.
• Skilled at dealing with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience spearheading execution on large-scale, high-impact projects.
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

How We Work Together

• We are humble team players.
• We are warm and gracious with team members and customers.
• We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.
• We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.
• We come up with novel and unique ideas.
• We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
• We take ownership.
• We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more.
• We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.