COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS MANAGER

COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS MANAGER - STUDIO TEAM
£50k + Bonus + Share Options
London Based (Victoria Station) with Remote working available 2 days per week.

WHO ARE SESSIONS?
We're Sessions - a growth platform for original food brands & experiences. 🍔🍽️

• Creators in food.
• Challengers in brand development.
• Leaders in licensing.
• Disruptors in franchise.
• Originals, in everything.

Founded in 2020, we’re on a mission to bring non-stop
originality to every kitchen and food lovers across the UK. 👩‍🍳

Sessions’ brand portfolio includes UK crowd favourites such as SoBe Burger, Little Bao Boy, Backyard Chicken and Kenny Tutt’s Patty Guy, and extends to partnerships with internationally acclaimed brands including Ivan Ramen and Netflix! 

Sessions has launched and scaled 10 food brands, partnered with 300+ licensee kitchens, and has delivered over 3 million orders. Now expanding into the Franchising space at speed, with our own Tech offering to support all sides of the business.
Sessions is reinventing food.

Sessions is led by former executives from Deliveroo, Brewdog and Soho House and is
backed by industry leading investors Imbiba and Guinness Ventures.

Who's Hungry?

🏃‍♀️ We are Agile - We are customer-obsessed and adapt as needed to meet their needs
🌍 We are Ambitious - We aim to not only discover but create on-trend brands and are excited by the work required to become a tastemaker brand
🤪 We are Fun - We keep playfulness at the centre of our culture so that we can deliver on the very serious business of keeping food fun
🤖We are data-driven - We don't make assumptions based on what has always been done and instead focus on what the data tells us should be done

Our benefits list got too long and we had to move it to the bottom 😮

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a food business, our ability to make our ingredients available nationwide at the best terms for our partners and for Sessions is critical to our model. Our supply chain supplies both input ingredients as well as fully finished products which enables our partner kitchens to produce a diverse range of brands, at scale, whilst maintaining consistent quality.

We are looking for a Commercial Operations Manager who can manage the day to day supply chain operations as well as implement process improvements to support Sessions growth. The right candidate will need to be highly obsessive over details and consistently drive to resolve issues and continuously improve how we operate and to deliver the best commercial terms for Sessions.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Source, develop and maintain the best possible products at the best price, working closely with our brands, technical, and operations teams.
• Manage supply chain operations including managing availability, stockholding and forecasting.
• Manage key supplier relationships to ensure risks are mitigated and any issues are resolved promptly
• Drive strong commercial agreements to support profitability and growth.
• Responsible across a range of products including food, packaging, logistics and equipment.
• Responsible for partner kitchen ingredients compliance
• Responsible for keeping commercial data and administrative systems up to date

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with buying, procurement or supply chain management
  
• Experience in a foodservice, restaurant, food wholesale or grocery setting
  
• Commercially minded with experience in building and managing external supplier relationships
  
• Highly analytical, with experience of working with ambiguous data sets
  
• Exceptional negotiation and contract management skills
  
• Charismatic and energetic with a passion for food
• Expert level of English language
• Right to work in the UK

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
People who thrive at Sessions are....

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Street hustler with lots of tenacity, capable of ‘getting stuck in’ and delivering results in a start-up environment
• Enjoys a fast paced ever changing environment
• Excited to collaborate and tackle problems outside of one's comfort zone
• Well-rounded and willing to flex to take ownership where necessary beyond core responsibilities
• Tenacious and assertive
• Enthusiastic and natural problem solver
• Enjoys working with people (facilitating and collaborating)
• Excited by the end game and motivated by building an enormous enterprise
• Resilient and loyal
• Charismatic and energetic with a passion for food

BENEFITS - What Sessions can offer you

Financial Wellbeing:

💰 Bonus Scheme - All Sessions headquarters employees are given OKRs, understand exactly what is expected of you to reach your 6 month bonus.
🤑 Share Options - Receive an amount of share options for Sessions upon passing probation
💸 Pay day on demand - Choose a payday that suits you best, with the ability to transfer salary for days already worked whenever you like.
💳 Expense card - Don't find yourself short whilst waiting for expenses to be paid, the majority of our headquarters staff will be given their own Soldo company card.
🏠 Finance Platform - Access to 'Mintago', Financial Wellbeing Platform giving access to free financial advice, pension hunter, discounts portal and a range of salary sacrifice schemes

Social, Mental & Physical Wellbeing:

🏘 Hybrid Working - We offer the option for work from home days for most head office roles.
🏖 Holidays - We offer 25 days holiday + bank holidays, celebrate different bank holidays? fine by us! Let us know and we'll distribute them as suits you best
👨‍⚕️ Healthcare - Sessions operate a Healthcare Cash Plan scheme that covers medical, optical and dental expenses
😇 Volunteering Day - Take a day at full pay to support one of our partner charities
🚨 Employee Assistance Programme - Support for mental health and legal services for you and your direct family.
🥳 Socials - Sessions run optional monthly social activities, everything from drinks on us, theatre trips, karaoke, art classes, team lunches and even events such as Halloween movie nights!
🐶 Dog Friendly - We love our fluffy pals, they're welcome in the office!
👘 Wear what you like - No suits and ties please, that's so 18th century....

Technology Perks:

💻 Laptop - Apple Mac or Windows Laptop? Your choice! and most of us don't judge...
📱 Phone - Apple iPhone and company sim provided where necessary for the role
📺 Additional - Need another screen? Keyboard? Footstool? Our office manager can provide you with an ergonomics assessment to prevent workplace injuries.

Progression & Development:

📈 High Growth Start Up- This is a great chance to be part of a growing company with plenty of progression opportunities and examples of where our people have progressed as fast as we have
🚀 Management & Leadership Programme - Sessions runs a Management & Leadership Programme covering a range of topics and classes
🪄 Be Inspired - Work with industry legends such as the Ex MD of Deliveroo, ex CFO Soho House and ex Global Growth Director of Brewdog.
✏️ Membership & Qualifications - Sessions have helped support a number of our employees by providing funds for work-based qualifications and memberships to relevant associations such as AAT and CIPD.

Join a company looking to change the face of the hospitality industry.

Sessions are a living wage and equal opportunity employer.

We are a living wage and equal opportunity employer - all applicants are reviewed 'anonymously' where only work experience and education will be available for the hiring manager to view - all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

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