ezCater

Senior Restaurant Business Partner (Remote)

ezCater$73K — $94K *
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years managing top-tier restaurant partners or accounts; familiarity with restaurant operations and e-commerce logistics preferred.
  • Proven track record in building strong relationships and delivering business impact through collaboration and negotiation.
  • Ability to analyze complex data sets and provide clear, actionable insights; proficiency in analytical tools like Tableau and Excel.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills tailored for executive audiences.
  • Experience in conflict resolution and crafting innovative solutions to competing interests.
  • Skilled in building trust through empathy and active listening.
  • Proactive problem-solver with a focus on root cause analysis and solution crafting.
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced and collaborative environments.

Responsibilities

  • Establish trust and rapport with enterprise restaurant partners.
  • Translate partners' unique business needs into actionable strategies for exceptional growth and performance.
  • Proactively assess and optimize partner performance through strong relationships and collaboration.
  • Communicate strategic priorities to stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment and accountability.
  • Leverage performance data to identify trends and translate them into actionable insights for partners.
  • Craft compelling narratives around data to enhance trust and collaboration with catering partners.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams like Sales, Marketing, and Product to achieve business objectives.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth in an innovative and challenging environment.
  • Flexible working conditions, with options for remote-hybrid work.
  • 12 paid holidays and unlimited PTO for work-life balance.
  • 401K plan with company matching contributions.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Resources for mental health and family planning support.
  • Employee meal program available when working from the office.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Sr. Restaurant Business Partner to join our team! This person will play a pivotal role in building trusted and deeply strategic partnerships with ezCater's enterprise restaurant partners, building shared growth goals for each partner that are grounded in exceptional operational performance, a streamlined offering, and optimized exposure. In this role, you will bring the ezCater opportunity to life for our partners, navigating and translating their needs, capabilities, and strategic priorities to deliver mutual success.

What You'll Do:
Strategic Partnership & Relationship Management
  • Establish rapport and build trust with contacts at all levels within a portfolio of ezCater's enterprise restaurant partners.
  • Understand and translate each partner's unique business to the ezCater opportunity, creating and implementing strategies for exceptional customer experiences and shared growth.
  • Proactively assess, validate, and optimize partner performance on an ongoing basis - your relationships will be strong enough to support joint problem solving.
  • Translate strategic priorities into clear, actionable direction for stakeholders from C-level decision makers to individual store managers, building alignment and accountability throughout the partner organization.

Analytics, Insights & Operational Expertise
  • Lead as a subject matter expert on partner-facing and internal operational metrics, as well as partner-specific nuances that may impact metrics (e.g., integrations, corporate structure, etc.)
  • Leverage performance data to identify partner-specific patterns, root causes, and trends-then translate these into actionable insights that drive improvements, strategic decisions, and high-impact projects
  • Craft compelling, data-backed narratives to communicate performance, opportunities, and progress to catering partners in a way that builds trust and promotes collaboration.
  • Deeply understand operational metrics and the complex, cross-functional dynamics of each account to form a holistic view of how brands operate on our platform-and use that understanding to recommend the right mix of services, tools, and strategies that set each brand up for long-term success.
  • Present operational and functional insights to internal and external stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Enablement
  • Build and drive operational outcomes tied to specific business objectives that benefit both our partners' and ezCater's growth.
  • Collaborate closely with other departments, including Sales, Marketing, and Product, to drive alignment around and support for overall and partner-specific goals.

What You Have:

  • 4+ years experience partnering with and managing top-tier partners or accounts; experience with restaurant operations, final mile delivery, or e-commerce logistics preferred.
  • Track record of success building strong internal and external relationships and rapport, delivering business impact through collaboration, negotiation, and creative problem solving.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data sets and distill them into clear recommendations for both internal stakeholders and external partners; expertise using analytical tooling (eg, Tableau, Sigma, Excel).
  • Articulate, executive verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience in resolving conflicts and finding creative solutions to address competing interests.
  • Proven ability to build trust and influence through active listening, empathy, and navigating through others' perspectives and motivation.
  • 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.

The national total targetcash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $73,000-$94,000 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.

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About ezCater

ezCater is an online marketplace for business catering. The company was founded in 2007 by Stefania Mallett and Briscoe Rodgers and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. ezCater connects businesses with local caterers and restaurants, providing a streamlined ordering and delivery process. The company has partnerships with over 60,000 restaurants and caterers across the United States and has served over 2.5 million business customers. ezCater has raised over $300 million in funding and was valued at $1.25 billion in 2019.
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Size
1,000 employees
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Founded
2007

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