SR Product Manager

The Chefs' Warehouse Inc

Ridgefield, CT

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Business Strategy, Communication Skills, Consultative Sales, Consulting, Cross-Functional, Customer Acquisition, Customer Relations, Distribution Services, Ecosystems, Embedded Systems, Food Services, Help Desk, Identify Issues, Leadership, Life Insurance, Mentoring, Partner Sales, People Management, Process Improvement, Product Design, Product Development, Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Prototyping, Restaurant, Sales, Sales Operations, Scalable System Development, Stock Purchase Plans, Team Building, Team Lead/Manager, Use Cases, Warehousing
LOCATION
Ridgefield, CT
POSTED
4 days ago

About The Chefs Warehouse

The Chefs Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 40 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 4,000 artisan producers of the world's finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 50,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.

Mission: The mission of The Chefs' Warehouse is to provide the world's greatest ingredients to the world's best chefs.

Our C.H.E.F.S. Values:

Curious & Creative

Hungry For Food & Results

Entrepreneurial

Forward Thinking & Flexible

Supportive (Of Peers & Chefs)

Job Description

Senior Product Manager

About The Chefs Warehouse

The Chefs Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) combines exceptional quality and brand building with broadline food service distribution for more than 40 years. With Protein, Specialty, Produce, and Broadline offerings, we service the most discerning chefs in a hybrid approach of convenience and superior quality. We introduce more than 4,000 artisan producers of the world's finest ingredients from over 40 countries to the finest chefs in the world. We passionately consult, sell, and build relationships with more than 50,000 customers through the most experienced network of over 600 consultive sales associates, best-in-breed technology, rapid service, and support levels that solidify our long-standing ties to both established and up-and-coming premium restaurants.

Our C.H.E.F.S. Values

Curious & Creative

Hungry for Food & Results

Entrepreneurial

Forward Thinking & Flexible

Supportive (Of Peers & Chefs)

Position Summary

  • The Senior Product Manager is responsible for building and scaling tools that transform how we service our customers and internal stakeholders. This role is equally focused on leading the people who will own, operate, and evolve those tools over time.

  • The ideal candidate will combine strong product thinking with a deep understanding of business workflows, ensuring that solutions are not only technically sound, but meaningfully adopted and embedded into day-to-day operations. They can design a great product and build the team structure, habits, and culture needed to make it last.

What You'll Do

  • Build for Sales Impact: Partner with sales leadership and field teams to identify friction points and design tools that drive revenue and improve rep efficiency.

  • Own the Product Lifecycle: Lead end-to-end development from problem identification solution design prototyping deployment iteration, creating lightweight structures that support speed and clarity without unnecessary process.

  • Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Sales, Operations, IT, and Management to align on priorities, validate use cases, and ensure solutions address real business needs.

  • Develop Scalable Data Foundations: Partner with data teams to improve the accessibility, reliability, and scalability of data infrastructure, reducing reliance on workarounds and one-off fixes.

  • Enable Rapid Experimentation: Establish an ecosystem that supports fast prototyping and iteration while maintaining alignment across teams and avoiding fragmentation.

  • Ensure Meaningful Adoption: Design rollout strategies, training, and communication plans that go beyond launch, ensuring end users feel supported through every change

  • Shift Ownership Toward End Users: Evolve how the digital team works so each member has a direct, ongoing relationship with the end users they support - moving away from a build-and-hand-off model toward one where the team actively co-owns outcomes with sales reps, customers, and operators.

About You

4 - 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Strategy/Management, or a related role.

  • Strong understanding of business workflows, ideally in sales, operations, or marketplace environments.

  • Experience managing or mentoring direct reports, with a clear instinct for developing people.

  • Comfortable leading teams through change

  • Experience building products for end users with high adoption expectations - sales teams, field operators, or customer-facing teams preferred.

  • Strong understanding of business workflows, ideally in sales, operations, or marketplace environments.

  • Ability to translate ambiguous problems into structured, actionable plans - for both product and people.

  • Excellent communicator who can simplify complexity for a wide range of audiences.

  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving priorities

  • Highly proactive, curious, and execution-oriented mindset

The above job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Perks & Benefits:

  • Paid Vacations, Paid Holidays
  • Health, Dental and Medical Benefits
  • Weekly pay
  • Life Insurance
  • 5% above cost for our high-quality food products
  • Employee discounts for travel and events
  • 401k
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

The Chefs Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. We are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.

About the Company

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The Chefs' Warehouse Inc

The Chefs' Warehouse is a specialty food distributor that began sourcing products for high-end chefs over 30 years ago. With locations in New York City, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Portland and Miami, The Chefs' Warehouse serves the finest restaurants, country clubs, hotels, caterers, culinary schools and specialty food stores around the country. Its product portfolio includes over 11,500 items and consists of imported and domestic specialty food products, such as artisan charcuterie, specialty cheeses, oils and vinegars, hormone-free protein, truffles, caviar and chocolate.

COMPANY SIZE
5,000 to 9,999 employees
INDUSTRY
Food and Beverage Production
FOUNDED
1985
WEBSITE
https://www.chefswarehouse.com/