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Senior Operations Manager

Foodsteps

Foodsteps

Operations
London, UK
Posted on Nov 29, 2024

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Operations Manager to work closely with our CEO and parent company to help rapidly scale Foodsteps through the next stage of the company. You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of the company, working across teams and projects as needed to scale the company.

What will you be doing?

  • Lead the operations function at Foodsteps, reporting directly to our CEO and our parent company, Registrar Corp.

  • Help track and manage strategic projects, ensuring alignment across the organisation.

  • Help to drive the execution of company-wide OKRs and KPI tracking, ensuring all teams are aligned and focused on achieving key milestones.

  • Facilitate leadership meetings, all company meetings, feedback processes, and employee engagement programs.

  • Help manage the relationship and reporting to our parent company, ensuring smooth communications and timely reporting of key metrics

  • Spot opportunities to remove blockers to the scaling of the business

  • Working closely with all team leaders on key initiatives, ensuring internal blockers are quickly resolved

  • Take on additional responsibilities that arise as needed to support the CEO

About Foodsteps

Foodsteps is on a mission to empower the food industry to accelerate its journey to net zero. Our specialised food sustainability platform provides instant access to industry-leading data and insights that food services companies and food manufacturers can trust to accurately measure, reduce and report their environmental impact. With Foodsteps, businesses reduce the costs and risks of their net zero transition, and improve sales as a result.

Our Product

Food systems account for nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the leading driver of biodiversity loss. In order to avoid the catastrophic consequences from both the climate and ecological crises, we must bring positive change to our food systems—fast.

Foodsteps’ specialised food sustainability platform enables food businesses to accurately measure, reduce and report their environmental impact. With Foodsteps: businesses can automatically calculate Product Footprints in order to understand the carbon, land and water impact of their menus and products; easily generate Scope 3 Assessments of their food and beverage supply chain; and produce detailed Life Cycle Assessments in order to to get a holistic and granular view of a product’s environmental impact. Last but not least, they can leverage our Carbon Labels and FoodStories in order to confidently educate customers and make credible sustainability claims.

In addition to platform subscriptions, we offer a wide range of professional services to clients to assess their food and beverage environmental impact and work alongside them to reduce this.

Must Haves

  • 3+ years of experience in a high-growth start-up environment within an Operations role

  • Experience in managing multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously

  • Experience in building and tracking OKRs, KPIs and other internal metrics

  • Demonstrated ability to work across different business functions effectively, delivering projects from inception to completion

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with an ability to build relationships across all levels of our organisation

  • Exceptional analytical skills

  • Passionate about climate-tech and the potential it brings

Nice to Haves

  • Experience in high-level financial reporting

  • Experience working in a similar size company in B2B SaaS

  • Experience of working in the sustainability space

  • Knowledge of HubSpot CRM

Salary, Location and Benefits

  • Ideally London-based, 2-3 days in the office per week

  • Foodsteps offers a full range of benefits including 27 paid holiday days, flexible working, volunteering days, and climate perks travel days

  • Welcoming office in Whitechapel, London

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