Culinary Systems and Planning Manager

Are you a systems-minded hospitality leader who thrives at the intersection of data, people, and execution? Do you love building structures, creating clarity, and turning complexity into simple, repeatable processes? Do you find energy in supporting great food by ensuring the operational foundation behind it is strong, disciplined, and scalable?

The Culinary Systems and Planning Manager owns purchasing, inventory, systems, and cost controls for the culinary department. This role serves as the operational glue between culinary vision and daily execution freeing the Executive Chef to focus on food, people, and creativity while ensuring the business runs with clarity, confidence, and discipline.

When done well, this role creates calm in complexity, protects margins, strengthens accountability, and allows innovation to scale responsibly. This person is a confident leader in ambiguity. They are comfortable sitting in uncertainty, making informed imperfect decisions, and leading change with confidence and backbone.

Our ideal Culinary Systems and Planning Manager is:

• A systems thinker: You can zoom out to see the full picture and zoom in to ensure details are right. You synthesize information, check your work, and understand how small decisions impact the whole.
• A clear communicator: You distill complex ideas into clear direction for all levels of the organization. You speak up, bring structure to conversations, and bring others along for the ride.
• A collaborative connector: You like people. You enjoy cross-functional work, know when to be assertive, and hold others accountable even when they don’t report directly to you.
• A curious builder: You enjoy researching products, systems, and trends. You bring creative excitement to operational work and see systems as tools that enable people to do their best work.

The Culinary Systems and Planning Manager is a development-minded leadership role for someone excited to grow alongside us, building, refining, and strengthening systems that support consistency, financial integrity, and long-term scalability across all brands and venues.

You are hospitality minded, and use it as a filter in decision-making, balancing financial discipline with care for team members, our clients, & partners. You thrive in an environment where the core values Do what it takes, love what you do, have fun doing it, leave it better and All for one and one for all are operationalized every day.