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Job Description: Operations Manager
About Happy Valley Meat Co.
Happy Valley Meat Co’s mission is to create a local meat system that treats the people and animals involved fairly. Happy Valley tackles this mission by providing restaurants and institutions access to ethically raised meat from family farmers. Small-scale farmers in the northeast are eager to supply consumers in urban areas but they usually lack the time, infrastructure, scale, distribution, and resources to market whole animals or individual cuts. That’s where Happy Valley Meat Co. (HVM) comes in: we purchase whole animals from farmers, work with small-scale processors to portion and pack market-ready cuts of meat, and sell every single part of the animal. As a certified B-Corp, we do our best to work better and constantly consider the impact our work has on our partners, employees and community. By working with HVM, chefs and their customers get to enjoy delicious cuts of ethically raised, local meat and contribute to the growth of a better meat supply chain.About The PositionHVM is seeking a full-time Operations Manager who’s passionate about local food, sustainably raised meat, and regional food systems to join its team. The Operations Manager will report directly to the owner and supervise one operations team member. This position will focus on building a systems-driven operations department that manages our supply chain from livestock forecasts to standing inventory to internal and outbound logistics. The ideal candidate is driven to make a difference, comfortable blazing new trails, unafraid to question the status quo, and able to balance day-to-day activities with long-term planning and analysis. The Operations Manager will be a key point of contact for our processing partners and therefor needs to have the overall vision as well as attention to detail that makes the sum of our collective work greater than the individual parts. HVM’s small but mighty five-person team is distributed around the northeast region and works mostly in a remote structure. This role, however, will require regular visits to our processing and farming partners’ locations in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland.
Responsibilities
About Happy Valley Meat Co.
Happy Valley Meat Co’s mission is to create a local meat system that treats the people and animals involved fairly. Happy Valley tackles this mission by providing restaurants and institutions access to ethically raised meat from family farmers. Small-scale farmers in the northeast are eager to supply consumers in urban areas but they usually lack the time, infrastructure, scale, distribution, and resources to market whole animals or individual cuts. That’s where Happy Valley Meat Co. (HVM) comes in: we purchase whole animals from farmers, work with small-scale processors to portion and pack market-ready cuts of meat, and sell every single part of the animal. As a certified B-Corp, we do our best to work better and constantly consider the impact our work has on our partners, employees and community. By working with HVM, chefs and their customers get to enjoy delicious cuts of ethically raised, local meat and contribute to the growth of a better meat supply chain.About The PositionHVM is seeking a full-time Operations Manager who’s passionate about local food, sustainably raised meat, and regional food systems to join its team. The Operations Manager will report directly to the owner and supervise one operations team member. This position will focus on building a systems-driven operations department that manages our supply chain from livestock forecasts to standing inventory to internal and outbound logistics. The ideal candidate is driven to make a difference, comfortable blazing new trails, unafraid to question the status quo, and able to balance day-to-day activities with long-term planning and analysis. The Operations Manager will be a key point of contact for our processing partners and therefor needs to have the overall vision as well as attention to detail that makes the sum of our collective work greater than the individual parts. HVM’s small but mighty five-person team is distributed around the northeast region and works mostly in a remote structure. This role, however, will require regular visits to our processing and farming partners’ locations in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland.
Responsibilities
- Negotiating meat supply contracts and agreements with farmers
- Establishing, improving, and/or monitoring key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of operational processes
- Inventory management and forecasting of raw materials and packaging supplies
- Setting up and managing vendor relationships as needed
- Communicating operational constraints and needs with the rest of the company
- Developing, tracking, and analyzing carcass yields over time and communicating trends and concerns to processors and team
- Inventory planning for relevant to any holidays and closures
- Monitoring and controlling supply, processing, and logistics costs to meet financial targets
- Establishing and enforcing quality control standards to ensure the delivery of high-quality products and services
- Managing one direct report with tasks, goal setting, performance review, and growth
- Developing and tracking personal and departmental goals
- Participate in regular meetings with the HVM team to analyze performance and plan for the future
- Develop and present to the HVM team on the company’s operational performance
- 5-10 years in food industry operations with at least 5 years of experience related to meat operations, processing, products, or sales
- Passion for sustainable meat, local farms, good food, and the food business
- Experience building operating systems built around success metrics, quality assurance, food safety, and resiliency
- Strong continual improvement mindset
- Outstanding people skills, conversational skills, diplomacy, and outcome-oriented problem solving skills
- Excellent abilities to organize, follow-up, prioritize, multi-task, and organize
- Strong capacity for big-picture systems thinking as well as hand-on, detailed work
- Coachability, interest in getting feedback and dedication to consistent improvement
- Enthusiastic about working with a small team that wears many hats in order to grow
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort with direct and open communication
- Strong familiarity with relevant professional software (e.g. Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Netsuite, etc.)
This position is paid on a salaried basis, with an expected range of $80-90K per year.
Perks & BenefitsHappy Valley Meat Co. covers 80% of the cost of individual health insurance plan premium (plan includes vision and dental).
Application ProcessCandidates should send an email to << removed email >> with “Operations Manager” in the subject line, and include the following information:
- Cover letter
- Resume
Qualified candidates will be contacted directly.
Happy Valley Meat Co. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to view or apply to this position, please contact us at << removed email >>.
