Description:
The role
As a Senior Product Planner for HelloFresh Australia based in our Chippendale Office, you’ll play a key role in shaping our menu strategy, ensuring a data-driven, cost-effective, and customer-first approach. You’ll help craft diverse, high-quality, and exciting meal options while balancing supply chain realities and operational efficiency. By collaborating closely with Procurement, Culinary, Marketing, and Finance, you’ll influence both long-term and short-term menu planning strategies, making an impact on what lands on the plates of thousands of customers every week.
At HelloFresh, we know there’s no single path to success, and we value diverse experiences and perspectives. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you!
What you’ll do
- You will design and optimize weekly menus using GAMP (Global Assortment Menu Planning), balancing costs (COGS), customer preferences, and supply chain factors.
- Managing one of HelloFresh Australia’s most complex menu portfolios, you will oversee 60 recipe slots and 150 modular options per week.
- You will partner cross-functionally with Procurement, Culinary, Marketing, and Finance to align menu planning with business goals and customer expectations.
- Using data-driven insights, you will refine recipe selections, reduce waste, and optimize ingredient usage, including high-cost items and seasonal availability.
- You will lead quarterly menu planning, ensuring financial targets, budget alignment, and operational feasibility are met while continuously improving menu planning processes by identifying opportunities to simplify complexity and enhance efficiency.
What you’ll bring
- At a minimum, you have 5+ years of experience in menu planning, product management, or food-related operations.
- You possess strong analytical skills, proficiency in Excel, Tableau, SQL, and ideally Python.
- You have experience with financial metrics like COGS and recipe performance tracking. You have proven the ability to manage large-scale recipe portfolios, balancing cost, quality, and feasibility.
- You have excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience working cross-functionally with Procurement, Culinary, Marketing, and Finance teams.
What we offer
- Enjoy a 70% discount on weekly HelloFresh boxes and 40% off Youfoodz boxes, bringing fresh and delicious meals to your table at a great value!
- Opportunity to host and participate in the HelloFresh Academy, an internal learning program designed to leverage and share expertise across the company.
- Receive two additional HelloFresh Days for every year with HelloFresh
- Benefit from our Work from Anywhere policy, offering flexibility to work remotely
- Based in our Chippendale office , home to our Recipe Development team, where HelloFresh meals are created—and you’ll have the chance to taste the recipes every week!
- Paid Maternity Leave
- A diverse and vibrant international environment of 70+ different nationalities
- The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe
Are you up for the challenge?
Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.
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