Job Overview
As Senior Food & Beverage Strategy Associate, you will be a key member of the Global Food & Beverage team, helping shape the future of our menu across geographies. Your mission is to elevate Blank Street’s menu through standout seasonal launches, thoughtful menu design, unique merchandising, and uncompromising product quality, ensuring every item we serve is something our customers truly love. You combine creative instinct, an exceptional palate, strategic acumen, and analytical skills. The role collaborates cross-functionally within the UK office and reports to the Global Product Strategy Lead, working closely with Beverage Innovation, Product Quality, and the Global Product Director.
Responsibilities
- Own Product Performance Reporting & Insights: Analyze performance data, customer feedback, and operational input to generate meaningful insights that influence product strategy.
- Drive Planning & Execution of Product Launches: Lead end-to-end planning and execution of seasonal and evergreen food and beverage launches, aligning cross-functional partners, ensuring on-time, high-quality execution.
- Organize the UK Product function: Lead project management for ongoing product pilots in the UK office by working closely with our UK Beverage Program Manager and UK Food Program Manager.
- Support Global Product Strategy & Research: Support key product business decisions, such as pricing, product optimization, flavor innovation, LTO launches, and category expansion. Create concise, well-structured decks, memos, and briefs to drive alignment and decision-making across teams.
Qualifications
- 4+ years in management consulting or in-house strategy at a consumer goods, retail, or hospitality company where you’ve shaped strategic direction.
- Bonus if you have direct experience bringing products from ideation to market.
- Strong analytical thinker skilled at turning incomplete data into actionable insights.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple initiatives with competing deadlines.
- Wealth of knowledge or love for F&B, consumer retail brands, and extremely good taste.
- True people person – collaborative, team-first mindset with the ability to build trust and influence across functions.
- Clear and confident communicator who adapts messaging based on audience and context.
- Bias for action; when something needs doing, you roll up your sleeves and solve it.
- Super comfortable with PowerPoint, Excel, and Google Sheets.
- Must be based in London and available to work in-person at least 4 days per week.
Benefits & Perks
- Equity package.
- Private health and dental insurance.
- 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), plus an additional paid day a year to start something extraordinary.
- Salary sacrifice scheme for Cycle to Work, bike subscriptions, pensions, and medical.
- Access to 1Rebel off-peak classes at sites near our office, for free.
- Exclusive access to our coveted Regulars program – free coffee, matcha, and more.
- Great culture with regular team events.
Experience & Employment
Experience: Full-time. Employment: Full-time.
About Blank Street Coffee
At Blank Street, we’re building a generation-defining food and beverage brand, and we can’t do it without an incredible team. Want to be a part of this? We’re hiring.
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