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Operations Specialist

 

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!

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.

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 by early December 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.

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 communication 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.

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.

Reports to: CEO

Compensation: $52,500 per year base salary

This is a salaried, non-exempt position. Total compensation includes base salary, performance-based incentives/bonus, medical & dental benefits, and 401(k) matching

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 or late-evening call from producers. The position requires occasional regional travel to meet with producers or vendors.

Holidays & PTO: KOL Foods is closed on 7 national holidays (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day) and the following Jewish Holidays if they fall on business days: first and last 2 days of Passover, 2 days of Shavu’ot, 2 days of Rosh Hashana, the day of Yom Kippur, first and last 2 days of Sukkot.

10 days paid vacation time, accrued from the date of employment.

To apply, go to https://www.indeed.com/job/operations-specialist-b56efc3891b7bf16