S'more about the team

As the Jr. Menu Planner, you believe that Canadians should have access to cook delicious and fun recipes at home without stress, and feel positive that we can be the ones to help make this happen! You can use your analytical and practical cooking skills to tackle the challenges in our menu planning process. You will contribute to recipe development and strategic planning for our menus based on consumer insights, seasonality, and budget. Together with the Operations team, you will help bring our recipes to life in the kitchens of our home cooks!

Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for

• Own weekly process functions that contribute to the delivery of our product
• Support menu planning team with ad hoc requests and communicate recipe changes to relevant stakeholders
• Apply strategic menu planning practices to create our weekly core HF menu 
• Communicate amongst cross-functional stakeholders in regard to possible changes and decisions around our weekly menu
• Support menu planning team with ad hoc requests and communicate recipe changes to relevant stakeholders
• Support procurement/production-level requests
• Be data-driven in everything you do to support the decision-making process that shapes our brand and product visions.
• All other duties, as assigned 

Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for

• 1-2 years of experience working in the food development, processing, or consumer packaged goods industry is preferred, but equivalent experience will also be considered
• Exceptional time-management and communication skills to manage multiple projects with various stakeholders.
• Comfort in working with databases (including data entry) and learning proprietary software MS Excel skills (knowledge of SQL and Python an asset)
• A great knowledge of ingredients and cooking, with a keen eye for spotting food trends and exciting ingredients. You are obsessed with food and passionate about encouraging Canadians to cook more at home!
• An ability to identify process gaps and opportunities and a willingness to take the necessary steps to improve them
• Strategic and creative problem-solving skills in order to manage and improve the menu planning process - from recipe concept to meal kit execution
• Quantitative and analytical experience to translate consumer insights into actions that improve our recipes
• Ownership of your work and think beyond the scope of a given assignment.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
• A desire to work in a fast-paced environment with constant change and limited direction, and comfortable making split-second decisions and running with it

Let’s cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here

• Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box
• Health & Wellness -Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, and unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs.
• Vacation & PTO -Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance. 
• Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents
• WFH Allowance - A one time fund to help you set up or improve your home office 
• Growth & Development - We support your career progression, provide development opportunities, and invest in your continued learning through our organization wide L&D fund
• Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to HQ Wellness Wednesdays, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
• Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG’s like HelloChange and Women Empowerment, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts
• Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!

Flexible Hybrid Approach

At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience. 

To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.

Working Conditions

It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.