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KOL Foods Operations Specialist

KOL Foods sells 100% grass-fed, organic-raised, glatt kosher beef, lamb and poultry. Our mission is to tell an honest story. We want our customers to truly know and trust that each animal is raised in a traditional, environmentally-friendly way, on open fields. Our animals are healthy, humanely and sustainably raised, and mouthwateringly delicious.

KOL Foods products connect our customers to tradition, to the land, to a sustainable future, and to good health. Healthy animals should eat their natural diets and live free on pasture. This partnership with nature results in healthy, environmentally and ethically sound meat, with delicious flavor.

We are growing and looking for a new team member! Are you organized and have a knack for solving puzzles? Join the KOL Foods Team!

The entire KOL Foods team is laser focused on serving our customers the best meat available anywhere. The Operations Specialist will bear responsibility for working with our network of farmers, butchers and other vendors to ensure that we have our kosher, regenerative products ready for sale. Kosher customers around the nation will thank you!

We are a small, mission-led company, and our new colleague should be outgoing, detail-oriented and eager to help the company grow. We straddle the fields of sustainable and kosher food production, and this is an excellent opportunity to help take our company to the next level.

 

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled. We hope to fill this position in March 2024.

 

Core Duties

  • Operations and Supply Chain Management (70%)

    • Maintain and strengthen relationships with our producers (farmers, butchers) and other vendors;

    • Plan and execute a purchasing schedule;

    • Oversee inventory management;

    • Prepare instructions for butchers;

    • Assist in researching and onboarding of new suppliers;

    • Maintain good relations with warehouse and shippers;

    • Oversee operational data management and website updates.

 

  • Wholesale Program Development (25%)

    • Manage wholesale account onboarding and support;

    • Research and establish new wholesale partners;

    • Prepare monthly summaries and reports;

    • Seek new ways to make our wholesale customers happy.

 

  • Support the KOL Foods Customer Happiness Team as needed. (5%)

    • Provide assistance to our Customer Happiness team.

 

  • Other related assignments as necessary.

 

Statement on Hiring Qualifications

Statistics show that women and people of underrepresented groups are more likely to apply to jobs only when they meet 100% of the job qualifications. We encourage individuals to break those statistics. No candidate ever meets 100% of the requested qualifications. We look forward to your application.

 

What our ideal candidate would bring to the job:

  • 3 years of experience in operations and inventory management, preferably in the meat/food sector or farming/agriculture;

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Business Administration, Agricultural Management or related fields (or equivalent experience);

  • Data management experience - you have to be very comfortable with spreadsheets, and be able to gather and use data for operations and management purposes;

  • A tinkering/iterative personality - always looking to improve existing processes and structures;

  • Project management experience;

  • Sales experience; wholesale experience and/or kosher food experience is a plus;

  • Ability to be diplomatic - to be simultaneously persuasive as well as kind;

  • Ability to work with or learn the relevant suite of apps: eCommerce, CRM, Customer Experience, etc.;

  • Effective multitasker, excellent communications skills, a kinder-than-necessary demeanor, and a sense of humor.

  • Strong interest in food; interest in the sustainable/regenerative food movement and/or in kosher food preferred.

Reports to: CEO

Location: Remote/flexible; Greater Washington DC area strongly preferred. All KOL Foods employees are currently working remotely. We plan to return to an office setting in the future, with continued remote flexibility.

Hours: Full-time exempt position (M-F, 9am-5pm). You will receive the occasional early-morning call from producers. The position requires occasional regional travel to meet with producers.

 

Compensation: $52,500 plus performance-based commission and bonus. 

  • Health and dental insurance;

  • Federal and Jewish holidays;

  • Paid sick leave and vacation;

  • 401(k) employer matching program;

  • Bonus Incentive

 

Apply on our Indeed page. Please also describe an operational issue from your past experience and how you addressed it.