Company description

Brundo Spice Company offers heirloom spices and herbs - grown around Ethiopia and traditionally processed at our Mojo, Ethiopia HQ. We run a small packaging and distribution office out of our Oakland HQ, upstairs from our award winning restaurant, Cafe Colucci.

We are proudly an Ethiopian and Woman owned company.

Job description

Our Operations Lead will have three priorities: perform key daily tasks in Brundo Spice Company’s operations (including inventory management and production), support operations at our sister company, Cafe Colucci and uplifting Brundo Spice Company’s role and brand at Cafe Colucci.

In addition to managing daily tasks at Brundo Spice Company, the Operations Lead will play a key role in planning processes for Brundo’s expansion.

We are a small and mighty team - with plans to grow!

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Love for food and culture
• Knowledge of local and national restaurant scenes
• Previous experience with or willingness to learn platforms and systems like Amazon, Shopify, Easypost, and Google Office Suite
• Able to work independently prioritizing projects
• Farmer’s Market experience
• Travel between work sites on a biweekly basis (valid driver's license required)

If you're not sure if your skills and experience match our requirements - please apply!

Primary Goals

• Play a key role in the management of fulfillment and procurement. From securing the items at the source to individual fulfillment. Creating a workflow and managing all incoming orders at Brundo Spice Company
• Support operations at Cafe Colucci, helping source materials as well as cover gaps in scheduling when needed
• Designing production workflows at Brundo Spice Company, as well as managing potential new onboards
• Supporting and protecting Brundo Spice Company’s stake in Cafe Colucci.

Responsibilities

• Procurement - Managing and keeping track of product & packaging inventory within our Oakland HQ, by way of weekly reports and product manifest lists. Organizing information in a way that it may be relayed to our facility in Modjo, Ethiopia to ensure our supply chain is unaffected.
  • Help package and bottle spices.
• Fulfillment - Overseeing the daily orders and customer details at Brundo.com. Ensuring orders are being received and fulfilled, ideally within 24-48 hours.
• Inventory/Supplies - Maintaining all supplies at Brundo HQ, picking up and purchasing supplies when needed.
• Operations - Working with management staff to assist with daily operations
  
• Supporting Cafe Colucci. Working with the management staff at Cafe Colucci.
  • Sales Knowledge - Create and standardize information for Cafe Colucci employees to ensure they can describe and sell Brundo Products.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

Application instructions

Deadline

August 15, 2024