Labour Planning Analyst

at  HelloFresh

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world’s leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.
The role
The Labor Planning Team ensures HelloFresh Distribution Centers have robust and cost optimal labor plans while constantly innovating in a number of areas aimed at improving our customers’ experience. This person will work with stakeholders and data sources to recommend on-going hourly staffing plans and shift structures in all of our International Distribution Centers. We are looking for a passionate, analytical and technical person who will relentlessly dive deep, improving the accuracy and efficiency of the planning process.
An analyst will be expected to influence network level strategic decisions through partnering with senior stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess both an analytical background that enables them to support network planning and demonstrate the ability to think broadly and strategically about operational initiatives. They will experience a wide range of problem solving situations, requiring extensive use of data collection and analysis. They will work in lock-step with multiple business teams including DC operations’ leadership, People Operations, finance leadership, supply chain, transportation and the software development team in Berlin.
Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What you’ll do

• Interacting with and influencing business and finance customers to gather and present data.
• Supporting with input forecasting using trend analysis and statistical modeling to drive decision making.
• Be responsible for the Labor Planning as well as cost and service optimization for the international network
• Building short/medium and long term operational plans to minimize variable costs associated with staffing
• Analyzing and solving business problems with focus on understanding root causes and driving forward-looking opportunities
• Communicating complex analysis and insights to stakeholders and business leaders, both verbally and in writing.
• Participate in global operational and labor planning initiatives and project rollouts to cater to growing business needs
• Promote process improvement and standardization of processes across all sites in the network

What you’ll bring

• A completed Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, IT, or finance based field
• Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Good ownership and customer obsession
• Good problem solving and troubleshooting skills and an ability to provide creative solutions to complex problems
• Ability to build scalable analytical models
• Ability to apply basic statistical techniques (e.g. hypothesis testing)
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Experience utilizing SQL/VBA (preferred)
• Experience with performance metrics (preferred)
• Direct experience in quantitative research or analyses (preferred)
• Master’s degree (Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field)
• Experience in Operations, Supply Chain (preferred)

What we offer

Elevate your lifestyle! Join one of Europe’s fastest-growing tech powerhouses in a dynamic phase of expansion.

• Immerse yourself in a diverse global community of 90+ nationalities.
• Enjoy a competitive compensation package that goes beyond the norm, with perks like a HelloFresh- subsidized Pension Scheme, Berlin relocation support, and a Hybrid working model.
• Elevate your lifestyle with exclusive discounts on your weekly HelloFresh box and office meals.
• Invest in your growth with an annual learning & development budget, German language learning budget, and access to the HelloFresh Academy.
• Plus, we’ve got your well-being covered with mental health support, transportation perks, and working-parent-friendly benefits. From our 24/7 gym access,wellbeing platforms like Headspace and Spill, to sabbatical leave options, HelloFresh is not just a workplace; it’s a lifestyle of perks and possibilities!

Are you up for the challenge?
Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.
After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.
About HelloFresh
We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!
At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.
We want to adapt our processes and create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate our process. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with us in the application form.
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HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, please reach out to us at:

• Europe: EUaccommodations@hellofresh.com.
• APAC: APACaccommodations@hellofresh.com
• United States: USCandidateAccommodations@hellofresh.com
• Canada: CAaccommodations@hellofresh.com

• Interacting with and influencing business and finance customers to gather and present data.
• Supporting with input forecasting using trend analysis and statistical modeling to drive decision making.
• Be responsible for the Labor Planning as well as cost and service optimization for the international network
• Building short/medium and long term operational plans to minimize variable costs associated with staffing
• Analyzing and solving business problems with focus on understanding root causes and driving forward-looking opportunities
• Communicating complex analysis and insights to stakeholders and business leaders, both verbally and in writing.
• Participate in global operational and labor planning initiatives and project rollouts to cater to growing business needs
• Promote process improvement and standardization of processes across all sites in the networ