Senior Portfolio Culinary Manager (m/f/d)

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At Every, we help people reach their health goals while protecting the planet.

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Intro Making healthy eating effortless – with plant-based, chef-crafted meals that deliver maximum nutrition, flavour, and convenience. Our vision goes beyond quick fixes – it's about sustainable wellbeing.

We're looking for a Senior Portfolio Culinary Manager (m/f/d) to own and scale our culinary product portfolio across multiple producer relationships and our full add-on range. This role carries end-to-end accountability: from briefing and developing through to post-launch performance, margin review, and SKU optimisation.

You'll bring deep expertise in food product development, supplier management, and commercial portfolio thinking, with a proven track record in D2C food or food production organisations. You'll work cross-functionally with Operations, Marketing, and Digital Product to ensure our meals perform as well on paper as they do on the plate.

Your responsibilities Own the full development cycle for the Lunch and Dinner meal portfolio across core producer relationships: briefing, ingredient sourcing, recipe development, tasting, nutritional validation, packaging lock-in, launch coordination, post-launch optimisation, quality management, and commercial review.

Manage the add-on portfolio on a continuous optimisation cadence: ongoing performance review, SKU scoring, and category strategy rather than milestone-based pipeline execution. strategic oversight of producer lanes covering pipeline, quality, and optimisation.

Serve as the primary OPS procurement liaison when decisions directly affect the culinary customer experience. Lead portfolio performance reviews and SKU scoring across owned categories. Design and operate a post-launch review framework. Synthesise customer insight and feed findings into roadmap planning.

Track weighted average CM1 margin and drive directional improvement per lane by Q4 2026. What you bring 5+ years in food product management, culinary product, or category management in a food production or D2C food context. Direct experience managing producer or supplier relationships end to end.

Commercial track record: you have managed margin, COGS, and performance data as part of your core work. Strong commercial instinct: you track what is working and act on what is not. Ability to build trust with producers and internal stakeholders quickly. Comfortable managing across two very different operational rhythms simultaneously.

Data-driven approach to portfolio decisions, including CM1 and attachment rate analysis. You do not wait for systems to be built. You build them. Operates independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. Strong communicator across functions: OPS, Marketing, Digital Product.

A genuine interest in food and how people eat, not just as a category but as something that matters. Fluent in English; German is a plus but not mandatory.

What we offer A high level of ownership in your role from day one A hybrid working model with a beautiful office in Kreuzberg Free lunches at the office 30% employee discount on Every products Subsidised Deutschlandticket and Urban Sports Club membership 30 days of annual leave Next steps Don't tick every box?

That's okay – we still encourage you to apply. Just send us your application and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you! About us We aim to simplify healthy living. The future lies in delicious, sustainable food options that inspire better eating habits.