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Hana Group

Pan-Asian prepared meals for retailers

Manager cuisine centrale

Food & Beverage Operations ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAnderlecht, BelgiumIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Significant experience managing a team in food production, a central kitchen, catering, or the food-processing industry.
  • Experience in a high-volume environment with deadline constraints.
  • Knowledge of food hygiene and safety rules.
  • Experience working in shift-based schedules, ideally in a multi-shift organization.
  • Ability to organize work and manage priorities in a dynamic environment.
  • Ability to make rapid decisions in operational situations and analyze results to implement corrective actions.
  • Proficiency with common computer tools.
  • Autonomy, initiative, rigor, organization, results orientation, and ability to handle priorities and unforeseen issues.
  • Ability to model compliance with hygiene, safety, and procedural rules.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise, coordinate, and support production teams across three shifts.
  • Allocate tasks and responsibilities according to production volumes; ensure schedules, procedures, and work instructions are followed.
  • Contribute to scheduling and personnel-needs management; onboard, train, and support new employees; develop team skills and autonomy; conduct team briefings and handovers between shifts.
  • Manage day-to-day operational and personnel situations with management and relevant departments.
  • Plan and coordinate production according to orders and forecasts, including sushi, wok, sandwiches, and related preparations and components.
  • Ensure recipes, technical sheets, portion weights, and presentation standards are followed; monitor yields, quantities, production times, productivity targets, and raw-material needs.
  • Optimize workstations and production flows; reduce losses, overproduction, and unnecessary consumption; implement corrective actions as needed.
  • Ensure compliance with HACCP procedures, food hygiene rules, cold-chain and storage requirements; monitor temperatures, use-by dates, traceability, and storage conditions.
  • Ensure cleaning and disinfection procedures are followed; conduct quality checks before, during, and after production; address nonconformities and follow up corrective actions.
  • Maintain product quality and presentation standards; participate in internal and external audits and follow up on corrective actions.
  • Establish common standards across three shifts, support effective communications and handovers, monitor shift results, address deviations, and coordinate responses to cross-shift operational issues.
  • Report information to management and collaborate with Operations, shift leads, production teams, Quality/HACCP, Purchasing/Supply, Logistics, Maintenance, Human Resources, and Sales or order planning.
  • Ensure workplace safety practices are followed, identify risks and implement preventive measures, ensure correct equipment use, report breakdowns and coordinate technical interventions, and maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
  • Monitor production volumes, productivity and yield, production deadlines, waste, nonconformity rates, finished-product quality, adherence to standards, absenteeism and staffing, raw-material consumption, and quality-control and audit results.
  • Propose and implement continuous-improvement actions to improve the central kitchen’s quality, efficiency, and profitability.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience producing sushi, Asian cuisine, wok, or fresh products.

About the Company

Hana Group

Pan-Asian prepared meals for retailers

Hana Group provides ready-to-eat Pan-Asian meals through in-store shop-in-shop kiosks in partnership with retailers. Its offerings include fresh sushi, wok dishes, and poké bowls prepared by live show-cooking chefs inside stores, supported by central kitchens. It differentiates itself with a multi-brand portfolio (Sushi Gourmet, Mai Sushi, Genji, Poké Lé Lé) tailored to retailers and markets, plus a strategy of acquisitions and major partnerships with retailers like Whole Foods, Carrefour, Costco, and Walmart. The goal is to make restaurant-quality, fresh Pan-Asian meals convenient and widely available in grocery and wholesale channels, expanding globally through organic growth and investments.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Levallois-Perret, France
Founded
2012

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