Hybrid Senior Culinary Operations Project Coordinator

at The Agency

• Job title: Senior Culinary Operations Project Coordinator
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $70,000 - $80,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Senior Culinary Operations Project Coordinator at Purple Carrot coordinating meal launches and cross-functional projects. Managing timelines and documentation for a plant-based food delivery company based in Chicago.

Responsibilities

• Drive cross-functional coordination across Culinary, Marketing, Brand/Creative, Product & Engineering, Loyalty, and Operations to ensure smooth and timely meal launches.
• Manage and update launch calendars with the Marketing PM, including workback schedules for new meals, seasonal offerings, and promotions.
• Own timelines and deliverables for Meal Kit and Ready-to-Eat launches, ensuring accountability across all teams.
• Facilitate meetings by setting agendas, capturing key outcomes, and following up on next steps to keep projects on track.
• Maintain clean and organized documentation across Galley, Admin, Asana, and other systems to ensure visibility and consistency.
• Identify risks early and propose solutions to remove blockers.
• Fully own the web upload process, ensuring product data, recipe content, and imagery flow accurately between Culinary, Creative, and eCommerce.
• Capture learnings post-launch and collaborate with teams on continuous process improvements.
• Assist with ad-hoc projects and tasks as necessary.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in project coordination, food operations, or project management
• Bachelor's degree in business, communications, culinary management, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Able to commute to the office in Chicago
• Proficiency in Google Suite, Asana, Galley, or similar project/product management tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to translate complex information into clear, actionable next steps.
• An analytical mindset with comfort reviewing data and feedback to surface insights and make recommendations.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision
• FSA
• life insurance
• matching retirement plan
• generous and flexible paid time off
• Purple Carrot box delivery credits
• professional development
• collaboration with teammates passionate about food!