We're looking for a Senior Portfolio Culinary Manager (m/f/d) to own and scale our culinary product portfolio across multiple producer relationships and our full add-on range.
This role carries end-to-end accountability: from briefing and developing through to post-launch performance, margin review, and SKU optimisation.
You'll bring deep expertise in food product development, supplier management, and commercial portfolio thinking, with a proven track record in D2C food or food production organisations.
You'll work cross-functionally with Operations, Marketing, and Digital Product to ensure our meals perform as well on paper as they do on the plate.
What you will 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, quality management, and commercial review.
strategic oversight of producer lanes covering pipeline, quality, and optimisation.
Serve as the primary OPS procurement liaison when decisions directly affect the culinary customer experience.
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 Q4 2026.
What you bring 5+ years in food product management, culinary product, or category management in a food production 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.