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About Esencia Foods

Esencia Foods makes vegan meat and fish from mycelium solid state fermentation. As a venture-backed business, we are pioneering this approach.

Our mission 🐠 is to foster the world’s transition to a sustainable food system- without asking consumers to compromise on taste, texture, or price.

Our planet 🌎 cannot sustain our current food system; therefore, we believe in producing exceptional alternative products to remove the current strain on our environment and ensure food security for our future ever-growing population.

We are looking for you to lead various commercial, financial and operational topics that drive forward the growth of the company.

This is your opportunity to have an impact on our planet and experience a startup in its earliest days.

Roles & Responsibilities 🔨

• Define and solve commercial, operational and financial challenges
  • Commercial = Co-develop go-to-market strategically and execute; keep oversight of a ne/twork of (potential) customers and partners; focus and develop contacts and leads towards contracts; update our product positioning based on market feedback; represent us at events (65% of work)
  • Operational = Introduction of an ERP system; setting up a supply chain etc. (20% of work)
  • Financial = Lead the application for complex multiple-100k€ grant applications by coordinating inputs from stakeholders inside and outside the organization and summarize in a business plan and pitch deck (15% of work)
• Support day-to-day duties such as project management, run hiring sprints and interviews, manage fair and event participations, etc.

Personality 💪

• You blend strategic thinking with hands-on practicality. You are not afraid to pick up the phone and work on the nitty gritty stuff. When it comes down to it, you extinguish fires in our day-to-day business, learn from problems that arise and find long-term solutions
• Act and work independently and responsibly, but also get support in all areas you need

Qualifications 💯

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, economics, or related
• 1-5 years of previous work experience, ideally in fast-paced and fast-changing environments like e.g. consulting or startups, and ideally in food or consumer goods is highly desired
• A track record of motivation to learn, getting stuff done (!), and being proactive, e.g., participating in university clubs or running side projects
• Handling a high degree of ownership and self-management; being a team player
• Fluency in English and German; speaking a bit of Spanish is a plus
• Willingness to travel about once to twice per months for up to 2 nights each

Why join? 🚀

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• Responsibility from Day 1
• You will work cross-disciplinary in a multicultural team, and directly with the founders to help you learn and grow
• A high-impact, ambitious startup environment with the ability to learn and grow alongside the company
• The opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology and make a true impact on the environment and our food system
• A fun, flexible, and rewarding environment where you can have the ability to thrive as a person

Excited to work with us?

Apply using the form on the right-hand side! 📬 Thank you for your interest in joining us. We hope to meet you soon!

*Application should be in English!