Home Chef
Direct Greenhouse career site

Continuous Improvement Analyst (Tempo)

Pay
$80,000 – $100,000 per year
Location
Chicago, IL
Listed
Today

Detailed Responsibilities

Strategic Project Work

  • Own high priority project work as necessary. Includes analysis, project management, and strategic recommendations
  • Continuously optimize production tools to support plant functions & CI related initiatives.

Data Analysis & Reporting

  • Develop models and methodologies to monitor success of multiple facets of the business (facility capacity, machinery usage, labor, production, etc.)
  • Find innovative ways to make data actionable for our production teams - build processes to better collect, store, and visualize operational data in a meaningful and impactful way
  • Enable data-driven decision making by reporting on core KPIs and performing ad-hoc analyses

Setting strategic priorities

  • Oversee Tempo KPIs & reporting (Tempo Scorecard); use data to identify highest-impact project work
  • Drive project work from strategy to project recommendation and partner with CI team for implementation with the fulfillment teams.

Collaboration with operations technology team

  • Develop V1.0 of tools and reporting to support efficiency and quality improvements at the plants
  • Collaborate with the SWAT team to formalize tool ownership and oversee their integration into the Tool Library
  • Partner with operations technology team as business lead in the development of technology-driven applications to implement in the plants

This position requires at least 25% travel.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years work experience in operations, management consulting, or data analysis role
  • Excellent analytical skills; strong capabilities in Excel, Google Sheets and Google Scripts.
  • 1+ years of experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS & common coding languages
  • Continuous improvement mindset
  • Strong prioritization and project management skills
  • Excellent communication skills, with experience creating buy in with a range of stakeholders such as hourly employees, customers, suppliers, and executives
  • Proactive in identifying problems and finding innovative solutions
  • Ability to understand the big picture as well as exceptional attention to detail
  • Skilled at dealing with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience spearheading execution on large-scale, high-impact projects
  • Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Perks and benefits

  • Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
  • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available
  • Paid holidays, sick time and vacation time
  • 401k program
  • Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses
  • How We Work Together
  • We are humble team players.
  • We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.
  • We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.
  • We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
  • We take ownership.
  • We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.

Be at Home at Home Chef

  • We all show up authentically at Home Chef.
  • Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives.
  • You can trust that you'll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
  • Home Chef offers the base salary range as posted below, with the exact offer depending on factors such as geographic location, experience, skills, and internal equity.
  • While compensation is within the provided range, it is not typical for offers to be made at the upper end.
  • In addition to base salary, Home Chef provides a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare coverage, 401k match, and paid time off.
  • Illinois Pay Range $80,000 - $100,000 USD
  • To view the California Applicant Notice

About Home Chef

Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.

In 2023, Home Chef introduced a new brand, Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved.

Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We're eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef's offerings.

The Analyst on the Tempo CI team will provide analytical expertise and support to CI initiatives with a split focus on analysis that highlights and identifies opportunities and building simple tools to measure the results of CI work. As a leading analyst on the Tempo CI team, this role is a plant facing, change driver that is constantly assessing plant performance and distance from target, assessing best practices, and leveraging the necessary plant process expertise to deliver change recommendations to the plant fulfillment network.

Read the original posting

From Home Chef's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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