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Director of Supply Chain

RESTAURANT TECHNOLOGIES (RT)

Restaurant Technologies (RT) is a high-growth integrator of automated safety and efficiency solutions, and complex peripheral services, for the commercial kitchens of restaurants (independent, QSR, fast food), convenient stores, retail outlets, grocers, delis, casinos, hotels, and other food services organizations. Owned by Energy Capital Partners, a ~$20B ESG investment firm, RT employs over 1,200 people and is generating roughly $1B in annual revenue, with steady long-term, double digit year-over-year growth, and an extraordinarily high-performing bottom line. Founded by entrepreneurial spirits tied to the McDonald's organization in the 1990's, RT is a well-established organization with an impressive executive team that is currently driving transformation, innovation, scalability, and major growth across the US.

As the company has reached critical mass and continues to evolve on its journey to drive growth beyond $1B, the RT executive team has made it a top priority to significantly invest in their enterprise business processes creating a much stronger, more scalable infrastructure. Given this direction and strategy, RT is turning their focus to optimize and redevelop a scalable, demand-driven Supply Chain foundation successfully unlocking the next phase of operational efficiency and growth for the enterprise. This is a high-impact Head of Supply Chain role where the leader will design and scale Restaurant Technologies’ next-generation supply chain—transforming a post-ERP environment into a faster, more reliable, and capital-efficient engine that directly enables growth to a $1.4B revenue target in 2026. The role owns end-to-end supply chain strategy and execution across oil supply, inventory management, procurement, warehousing, and corporate repair impacting a national depot network comprised of 40 DCs with a mandate to unlock working capital, improve service velocity, and build scalable systems within Oracle Fusion (ERP). With a team of ~30 people, this visionary leader will be given real autonomy effectively redeveloping a modern supply chain foundation and stand it up - including the physical footprint, inventory model, service levels, and systems backbone.

A Foundation you can build on

Getting a sense of the foundation that has been built prior to your arrival offers a lens through which you can see where your career may go.

Restaurant Technologies (RT)

Restaurant Technologies (RT) is a ~$1B, privately held, vertically integrated full service integrator of automated safety solutions and services for commercial kitchens across the United States. RT is the fastest-growing provider of cooking oil management, and back-of-house hood and exhaust cleaning solutions, in the country. It services well over 45,000 national quick-service and full-service restaurant chains, independent restaurants, grocery delis, hotels, casinos, convenience stores, universities, and hospitals and has grown tremendously year-over-year for decades.

RT's History

RT was founded in the late 1990's by a group of entrepreneurial spirited leaders from the food service industry who had strong ties to the McDonald's organization and recognized a serious challenge in the way that cooking oil was managed in commercial kitchens. They realized that the lack of automation in the handling of oil - its replenishment, monitoring, filtration, and even the logistical movement of the product - was exposing many workers to serious danger, enormous amounts of labor intensive and costly work, and creating an absolute mess in kitchens across the US. So they started Restaurant Technologies in 1997 to solve this problem on the foundation of a single, incredibly well-engineered system and service model, which is branded today as "Total Oil Management" - an all-encompassing solution for cooking oil delivery, filtration, grease removal, automated replenishment, and recycling at the push of a single button. Having developed a proprietary, evolutionary system that was non-existent and remains without much competition, the company has grown immensely at a very rapid pace.

A Stand Out In Food Service

Restaurant Technologies is a stand out in food service as it operates in a niche space with little competition. With its incredibly well-operated, vertically integrated structure, RT owns its proprietary systems and technology, and has intelligently built peripheral service structures around these equipment solutions to drive "vertical integration", which includes its own delivery teams, storage facilities (depots), installation services, and customer support/field service groups. Recognizing its strength of position in the space, RT has embarked on a transformation to drive continued growth of the existing "core" product portfolio while introducing new products and services in an effort to continue diversifying the organization in the greater food services space within which RT is only 1% penetrated.

Scale

RT is the most efficient and fastest growing provider of oil management solutions in the food services industry today, employing over 1,200 people across the United States whose efforts are generating roughly $1B+ in annual revenue. RT operates over 40 distribution centers, and services over 45,000 customers across restaurant and hospitality industries, including some of the most formidable brands in the business like McDonald's, Burger King, HyVee, Dairy Queen, Jack In The Box, Denny's, Kwik Trip, Top Golf, Chili's and many more.

Our Take On RT

Performance

RT is an explosively growing organization. Its leadership team is not interested in status quo or maintenance. Rather, they wish to continue the intelligent expansion of the business from a top and bottom line perspective, personnel and team growth, and product portfolio diversification and growth. RT hires aspirational, high-performing leaders who align with the company's expectation for continued change and healthy growth.

Integrity

RT's leadership team embodies strength in character. From the CEO through the entire organization, this team is constantly encouraged and expected to do what is right with candor, without compromise. The executive team is honest, forthcoming, and transparent and fully understands the value in establishing trust inside and outside the organization.

Speed

RT's leadership team moves quickly. Decisions and progress are made with tremendous velocity, an imperative characteristic of a high-growth, vertically integrated organization. RT embodies an entrepreneurial culture, where leaders have the autonomy to drive the business forward in the most nimble and agile way.

What You Will Be A Part Of

As a senior leader at RT, you will position the organization for its future, which requires an understanding of those around you, what they collectively stand for, and how they positively impact the world.

ESG - French Fries to Fuel

RT has partnered with Chevron Renewable Energy Group to turn used cooking oil into low carbon fuel furthering aligning with their ESG initiatives.

TOTAL OIL MANAGEMENT, RT'S FLAGSHIP PRODUCT

A thorough explanation of Restaurant Technologies' flagship product, Total Oil Management.

Deep Dive with Alissa Partee, COO of Restaurant Technologies

Former CPO and now Chief Operations Officer, Alissa Partee speaks about employee engagement and retention strategies for creating a great culture at RT.

Trinity Corp. Burger King franchises CHANGES THE WAY THEY MANAGE OIL

Director of Operations, Mike Dole, shares his satisfaction with his partnership with Restaurant Technologies.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

The field force driver team describes what it is like working at Restaurant Technologies.

CAREER PROGRESSION - CEO SPEAKS WITH BILL MOODY

Restaurant Technologies' CEO, Jeff Kiesel, spends time with long-time RT employee, Bill Moody, speaking about Bill's career progression and experience working at the company.

The Company You’ll Keep

Who you’ll work with is often more important than the work itself. Get to know the Restaurant Technologies leadership team you will be engaging with and supporting in this role.

Alissa Partee

Chief Operations Officer (Direct Manager)

Alissa joined Restaurant Technologies roughly 4 years ago as the Chief People Officer, providing HR advisory services in a variety of areas including coaching, diversity & inclusion, employee experience, and leading organizational change through unprecedented times of growth and maturity. She grew up in northern MN, specifically the Iron Range, which plays a significant role in her down-to-earth, midwestern nature. Prior to joining RT, Alissa was a part of iconic brands such as Caribou Coffee, Marvin Windows, and Buffalo Wild Wings, exposing her to first-class, authentic, people-driven cultures as well as high-growth environments. After a highly successful run in the CPO chair, RT recently announced Alissa's succession to Chief Operations Officer, where she assumes full accountability over HR/Talent, Operations Excellence, and IT. Alissa's "no-fear" mindset and core purpose of "contributing to someone else's success" are the perfect intangibles to lead RT through its' next phase of growth and maturity.

Jeff Kiesel

Chief Executive Officer

With an MBA from Purdue University and over 30 years of leadership experience, Jeff Kiesel is the incredibly well-respected CEO of Restaurant Technologies, a role he's assumed for the last 16 years. Jeff is a high energy, very passionate executive who embodies authenticity, candor, transparency, and honesty. He is a down-to-earth CEO, easily approachable, who sets very high expectations and acts as a strong supporter of his team in achieving those lofty goals. Jeff is the opposite of a micro-manager, and although highly supportive of his direct reports, hires senior leaders with the expectation that they take their onboarding and success into their own hands, leading autonomously with independence and little "daily" oversight. Jeff is a family man, and prioritizes health and fitness inside and outside of the office.

Brian Quinn

Vice President of Commercial Operations

Joe Nadzam

Senior Director of Operations Excellence

Kenndall Sayward

Senior Director of Centralized Services

Diana Geseking

Chief Legal Officer

A Day in the Life

Given RT's impressive growth and innovation over the last two decades, they now find themselves at a pivotal phase of operational transformation. The executive team has properly acknowledged their need for a more scalable, stronger infrastructure and subsequently made intelligent investments to positively impact the business in many functions. The Head of Supply Chain is a critical enterprise leader responsible for designing, building, and scaling RT’s end-to-end supply chain to support a national footprint of more than 40 distributed depots and a centralized warehouse model. With accountability for a team of roughly 30 people and six direct reports, this role operates with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. It is a rare opportunity for a seasoned supply chain leader to step in, define the future-state network, and create something truly foundational - spanning inventory placement and turns, forecasting accuracy, digitized bills of material, and scalable replenishment models that enable predictable service while optimizing working capital. This role goes well beyond modernization; it is about architecting how RT’s supply chain works today and how it scales for the next phase of growth.

This leader plays a central role in ensuring supply never constrains service, installs, or route execution across RT’s parts and bulk oil supply network. They will collaborate effectively across Operations, Finance, Technology, and Field Leadership, standardizing planning, procurement, warehouse, and logistics processes without adding unnecessary resources. With the help of an internal consulting arm focused on Operations Excellence and standardization across the distribution network, the Head of Supply Chain brings a lean, planful, and execution-focused mindset - able to see the big picture, break it into actionable steps, prioritize by level of impact and deliver results. Lastly, this leader will understand how this vision of a future-state supply chain comes together and integrates across the entire value chain helping RT achieve it's next phase of growth and maturity.

Responsibilities

Supply Chain Network Strategy, Design & Implementation

Design and stand up RTI’s future-state supply chain network supporting a national footprint of distributed operating locations and a centralized warehouse model.
Establish standard product flow paths by product category and service criticality.
Build scalable inventory and replenishment models that support service reliability while optimizing working capital.
Create the blueprint for how RTI’s supply chain scales as new depots open and service volume grows, as well as play a role in create capacity within the depots by standardizing equipment prepping (for service and installation orders).

Centralized Warehouse & Distributed Location Enablement

Lead centralized warehouse strategy, operating model, and performance management.
Ensure field operating locations are supported with predictable, reliable, and cost-effective supply.
Standardize stocking policies, min/max levels, safety stock, and reorder logic across all locations.
Reduce service disruptions and technician downtime driven by parts availability.

Procurement, Planning & Working Capital

Own enterprise sourcing and procurement strategy (parts/materials, oil)
Build strategic supplier partnerships and national agreements.
Establish demand planning, forecasting, and supply planning disciplines.
Drive inventory optimization, improved turns, and working capital efficiency.

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Transportation & Logistics

Optimize routing, carrier strategy, and cost-to-serve by region.
Build visibility and control across shipments and inventory movement.

Systems & Digital Enablement (Oracle Fusion)

Own supply chain process design and system enablement within Oracle Fusion.
Partner with Technology/Finance to utilize a fully integrated ERP-enabled supply chain.
Lead system adoption, data integrity, standard work, and process compliance.
Continuously improve planning, procurement, warehouse, and logistics capabilities within Oracle Fusion.

Oil Supply Logistics

Own RTI’s end-to-end bulk oil supply logistics model, ensuring reliable, on-time delivery of oil to support all field operations.
Lead operational relationships with bulk oil suppliers, including partners such as Cargill, focused on service reliability, execution discipline, and supply continuity.
Build visibility and control across oil movement, inventory, and delivery performance.
Lead contingency planning and resiliency for weather events, regional disruptions, and peak demand periods.
Partner with Operations to ensure oil supply never constrains customer service, installs, or route execution.

Requirements

12+ years of progressive supply chain leadership in a national, asset-based, distributed operating model
Hands-on experience evolving/building modern, scalable supply chain operating models
Oracle Fusion supply chain implementation and optimization experience
Deep expertise in procurement, inventory, warehousing, and transportation
Strong financial and working capital management background
Track record of leading large-scale transformation and systems-enabled change
Executive-level leadership and communication skills

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What You Bring to the Table

Deliberate

This leader will need the ability to envision the future-state supply chain end-to-end, translate that vision into a clear roadmap, break it into sequenced, executable priorities, and drive disciplined delivery without chaos or wasted motion.

Influential Voice

As RT continues to centralize and standardize their operations function, this leader will collaborate and effectively communicate across the organization to drive operational efficiency and instill the mindset that everyone is impacting the business as one cohesive team.

A Strategic Executor

The RT team is looking to bring in a Supply Chain leader who is a hands-on, no-nonsense executor. Someone who grabs the reins with confidence, moving quickly from strategy to action, holding high operational and system standards, and taking full end-to-end accountability for results in a highly autonomous environment.