Position Responsibilities:
Product Process Optimization
- Analyze current product preparation workflows and identify opportunities to streamline and reduce in-store complexity
- Develop, test and standardize best practice SOPs for product execution and rollout
- Collaborate with R&D and other relevant teams to design products with operational feasibility in mind
Efficiency & Cost Optimization
- Work closely with cost of sales and productivity data to identify efficiency gaps and improvement levers-
- Recommend ingredient, equipment or preparation changes that improve throughout and reduce labor or waste
- Support continuous improvement loops post launch, leveraging feedback to fine tune execution
Multi-Market Enablement
- Coordinate across markets to ensure consistent product execution while accomodating local operational nuances where required
- Localize global processes for market fit without compromising efficiency
- Provide structured handovers and training materials to support adoption in market
Cross Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Operations, Training, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance to ensure end to end readiness before product go-live
- Participate in pilots and new store formats to assess operational feasibility and process scalability
- Contribute to post launch reviews, capturing learning and driving corrective actions
- Collaborate with external vendors to drive external mass test exercises for the collection of public sample data
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing
- Maintain detailed operational playbooks, SOPs and troubleshooting guides
- Track and report performance metrics related to product execution (consistency, wastages etc.)
Secondary Position Responsibilities:
- Recommend changes to product SOPs, equipment, small wares usage or ingredient handling based on efficiency findings
- Approve operational SOPs and training inputs prior to regional rollout
- Influence new product feasibility assessment from an operational lens