Restaurant Business Partner (Remote)

ezCater, Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

ezCater, Inc. is hiring a Restaurant Business Partner to engage catering partners and ensure reliable operations for customers nationwide.

You will act as a consultative liaison to partners, helping them unlock growth on ezCater’s platform while aligning with each partner’s business operations. Responsibilities include developing relationships with senior partner contacts, using data to identify opportunities, and collaborating with sales, marketing, and product teams to drive growth.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience partnering with and managing external vendors or accounts; experience with restaurant operations, final mile delivery, or e-commerce logistics preferred.
• Experience leveraging data to make informed recommendations and/or decisions; comfortable working in Excel, Tableau, or Sigma.
• Clear, concise, and persuasive verbal and written communication skills.
• Track record of success working internally and externally to achieve shared outcomes.
• Ability to demonstrate active listening and emotional intelligence to better understand partner feedback and needs.
• Proactive approach to identifying and solving problems; demonstrated ability to root cause and craft the right solution.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments, both autonomously and cross-functionally in a team setting.
• Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable.

Responsibilities

• Engage and establish relationships with high-level contacts across different partner accounts to evaluate and communicate opportunities in ways that drive action.
• Understand the unique business of each partner and create strategies for success that support partner and ezCater growth
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate caterers’ operational opportunities on an ongoing basis, using performance data and customer and partner feedback loops.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on partner-facing and internal operational metrics
• Leverage data and analytics to identify trends and guide solutions
• Present operational and functional insights to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with other departments, including sales, marketing, and product development, to drive alignment and support the overall growth and success of catering partners on the ezCater platform

Skills

Vendor management

Data analysis

Excel

Tableau

Sigma

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Tools

Tableau

Sigma

Excel

Job description

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.

We’re looking for a Restaurant Business Partner to join our team! This person will play a pivotal role in engaging catering partners on our platform and ensuring reliable operations and exceptional service to both our partners and customers. They will be a consultative liaison to our external partners, ensuring that partners feel supported and heard and that they understand how to unlock growth levers on ezCater’s platform in a way that fits each partner’s business operations.

What You’ll Do:

• Engage and establish relationships with high-level contacts across different partner accounts to evaluate and communicate opportunities in ways that drive action.
• Understand the unique business of each partner and create strategies for success that support partner and ezCater growth
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate caterers’ operational opportunities on an ongoing basis, using performance data and customer and partner feedback loops.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on partner-facing and internal operational metrics
• Leverage data and analytics to identify trends and guide solutions
• Present operational and functional insights to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with other departments, including sales, marketing, and product development, to drive alignment and support the overall growth and success of catering partners on the ezCater platform

What You Have :

• 2+ years experience partnering with and managing external vendors or accounts; experience with restaurant operations, final mile delivery, or e-commerce logistics preferred.
• Experience leveraging data to make informed recommendations and/or decisions; comfortable working in Excel, Tableau, or Sigma.
• Clear, concise, and persuasive verbal and written communication skills.
• Track record of success working internally and externally to achieve shared outcomes.
• Ability to demonstrate active listening and emotional intelligence to better understand partner feedback and needs.
• Proactive approach to identifying and solving problems; demonstrated ability to root cause and craft the right solution.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments, both autonomously and cross-functionally in a team setting.
• Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable.

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $59,000-$82,000 annually.*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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