Finance & Operations Intern - Exciting Startup

Job description

About Us

Chewymoon is an ambitious start-up looking to revolutionise the way children eat. The UK’s first nutritionally-balanced snack box for kids, technology is the backbone of our business, integrating the nutritional profile and taste preferences of kids to offer a customised solution to customers. At Chewymoon we are extremely passionate about creating special eating experiences that have a formative impact on the way children perceive snacking in later life.

Finance and Operations Intern

Finance and Operations are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a highly ambitious and driven individual looking to progress rapidly to running the operations division. Your work will be diverse, challenging and highly rewarding as we build a strong foothold in the UK and later, globally. You will be joining as team member 6, and as such you will be expected to have a business owner mindset.

Responsibilities:
- Take full control of the financial and customer data management, supply chain, logistics, systems and operations optimisation.
- Build from the ground up – together with the CEO, develop an operations strategy that optimises resources and ensures excellent customer value
- Ensure ways to integrate technology in every aspect of the business. Work towards enhancing product quality and customer value every step of the way.
-Process refinement: Work with nutritionists and factory staff to continually update and improve processes.
- Events and offline marketing: Help prepare for events, assist at samplings and support offline marketing initiatives.
- Measurement: Develop KPIs and operational dashboards; be the champion of metrics to help cut inefficiencies and develop appropriate growth strategies

Desired profile

Key qualifications, experience and skills:

- Business/engineering/computer science degree is preferred but not essential.
- Very strong Excel skills (some VBA programming skills preferred but not essential)
- Experience in a start-up operational role is preferred but not essential.
- You are entrepreneurial, with the aptitude to learn fast and solve difficult problems daily. You have pure operational hustler capabilities.
- You have strong attention to detail and a willingness to learn everything about operating, developing and scaling a business.
- Tough, disciplined, resourceful: you'll have the full support and training of the CEO, CMO and the rest of the team, but you need to be fearless enough to take on big tasks
- You are excited by the mission to disrupt the retail snack sector.

Benefits:

- Greenfield opportunity – you can shape the strategic direction of the company from day one, driving big-picture thinking and leading operational effectiveness

- This is a three-month £500 per month paid internship. If you perform, we'll hire you full time after the internship. You will then progress to running the majority of Chewymoon’s operations within 6 months, with equity and profit share opportunities. A future CFO/COO?

- Driven, ambitious and supportive colleagues and a huge learning opportunity. Current team background: i) Previously owner of UK’s biggest cake company, ii) Co-Founder of a leading digital marketing agency, iii) Previously head of nutrition at a renowned fitness business, iv) Ex-Investment banker, v) Performance design and gamification expert.

What to do next:

1. A link to your LinkedIn profile
2. Your CV