About the Role
KitchenBASE is a part of CloudKitchens, the world's largest cloud kitchen service provider, offering commercial kitchen infrastructure to food businesses in the 23 wards of Tokyo and the city of Osaka. We provide a low-risk, minimal upfront investment model with significant growth potential, supporting restaurants, food services, food trucks, central processing units/central kitchens, food delivery, and a variety of other food businesses. KitchenBASE offers a perfect opportunity to solve chronic challenges, improve profitability, and expand your business.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and ensure compliance with property rules, regularly reviewing and updating as necessary.
- Ensure all kitchen licensees adhere to facility rules.
- Ensure facilities are fully updated and well-maintained through effective cleaning and repair works.
- Collaborate with internal facility technicians, the construction team, and external vendors to address facility or equipment issues.
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with vendors to ensure quality service at optimal costs, constantly reviewing service levels.
- Ensure Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the facility and organization are being followed.
- Address complaints, issues, or problems reported by kitchen licensees, neighbors, or drivers, providing timely solutions.
- Work with the Hubster/Otter team to collect feedback and improve processes for better customer experiences.
- Procure necessary equipment for facility operations with a cost-conscious approach.
- Manage the licensee onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring a seamless experience.
- Provide customer success service packages to delivery-focused accounts, analyzing and suggesting growth strategies for delivery players.
- Foster and maintain strong partnerships with Delivery Platforms (e.g., UberEats, Demaekan, Wolt, Coupang, etc.).
- Manage contract renewals and prevent churn.
- Promote kitchen expansions and upsell kitchen services.
- Review the monthly P&L of assigned facilities, identifying potential improvements.
- Work with the team to agree on actions and execute them.
- Develop and implement revenue-enhancing strategies while controlling expenses.
- Handle arrears and debt collection to ensure timely payments.
- Ensure smooth accounting processes by managing vendor registrations and payment procedures for contracted service providers.
- Manage monthly billing and issue invoices to licensees.
- Oversee company assets, ensuring efficient utilization.
- Ensure emergency response procedures are in place and up to date.
- Comply with local regulations and requirements to ensure the safety and compliance of facilities.
Requirements
- Fast learning abilities with a demonstrated interest in ‘getting your hands dirty’ either through direct experience (service operations, retail, hospitality, logistics & fulfillment, tech companies with heavy ops) and/or managed logistics or operations at food, drug, or other highly regulated manufacturing facilities.
- Have worked in more traditional consulting/banking and motivated to pivot.
- Problem-solving abilities as both individual and through your team - able to creatively or analytically solve problems, data-driven, capable of root cause analysis.
- Escalated bigger complaint handlings or Customer service experiences.
- Hustler mentality - bias to action, sense of urgency, calm in a storm, solutions-focused, able to prioritize.
- Leadership skills - empathetic, clear communicator, community builder.
- Process builder - focused on efficiency, builds with scale in mind, logical, system-oriented.
- Project management experiences working with internal and external stakeholders.
- Vendor relation management experience.
- People oriented mindset.
- Flexibility (expect frequent change as we define the future).
- IT literacy to manage projects and tasks. Gmail, Spreadsheet, Google slide, Google meet, Sales Force, Slack, etc.
- Proven track record of success results in financial.
- Analytical skills with the proven track record.
Skills
- Service operations
- Retail
- Hospitality
- Logistics & fulfillment
- Tech companies with heavy ops
- Managed logistics or operations at food, drug, or other highly regulated manufacturing facilities
- Problem-solving
- Data-driven
- Root cause analysis
- Customer service
- Bias to action
- Sense of urgency
- Solutions-focused
- Prioritization
- Leadership
- Communication
- Community building
- Process building
- Efficiency focused
- Scale-oriented
- Logical thinking
- System-oriented
- Project management
- Vendor relation management
- People oriented
- Flexibility
- IT literacy
- Gmail
- Spreadsheet
- Google slide
- Google meet
- Sales Force
- Slack
- Financial results
- Analytical skills
- Work experience at OFOs / Delivery platformer
Location
- 23 wards of Tokyo
- Osaka city
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
About the Company
- KitchenBASE is a part of CloudKitchens, the world's largest cloud kitchen service provider.
- Our Purposes: Redeveloping real estate to rejuvenate communities.
- Our Vision: Infrastructure for Better Food.
- Our Objective: Innovation at Speed and Scale.
