Careers

WE’RE BUILDING A TALENTED, DIVERSE, AND CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAM THAT BELIEVES IN

POSITIONS

>  CHIEF COCKTAIL MAKER (COO)

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WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

If you are ambitious, want to be part of a fast growing startup and have a real impact on its development, then you should consider DRINK IT FRESH! We are looking for a super motivated Chief of Operations (COO) who is flexible enough to quickly pivot when necessary and rounded enough to get through the many challenges ahead. The COO will oversee daily operations and will have to deal with the challenges of the frozen sector and its cold chain. He should have a strong interest in gastronomy (or cocktails), Briefly:

• Production: supervise the current daily production and adapt it (e.g. new equipment) to sustain the fast growing volume expected in 2019 and beyond
• R&D: develop new cocktails, improve the product (e.g. current packaging limitations) and the production process
• Strategy: design the best operation strategy to enable the company to grow to a multi millions € in revenue in <5 years
• Efficient production management: planning (e.g. in time purchasing of raw materials), quality control, costs control
• Stock management: stock follow-up and optimization
• Logistics: find the best (frozen) logistic partners to work with in Belgium and abroad

You will work closely with the CEO and will influence and impact the strategic decisions.

SKILLS REQUIRED

MUSTS:

It is above all your personality, your determination to have an impact and your motivation to make DRINK IT FRESH a success story, that interests us! Nevertheless, your main skills must be:

• You are a hands-on person who doesn’t fear to make his hands dirty
• Solutions-based problem solver with positive and creative mindset
• Stress-resistant and hard working
• Passionate, ambitious, easy-going, autonomous
• You have the heart of an entrepreneur and the brain of a manager
• At least bilingual among French, Dutch, English
• Master degree in engineering or any other similar degree
• You’re convinced by our values: good food, sustainability and “pura vida”!

Bonus points:

If you have some experience/background in operations management (food or frozen sector), you would be the unicorn of our dreams!

AS PART OF OUR TEAM, YOU’LL ENJOY:

• A unique opportunity to participate in the development of a young and growing startup in a stimulating and exciting sector
• Learn: the challenges of a startup with the impact of a global business
• Grow: have a concrete impact on the company’s growth
• Have fun: a dynamic and motivating “startup-minded” working environment
• Weekly team lunches and monthly team night outs
• Unlimited delicious (& free) cocktails…
• Flexible working hours
• And much more…

LOCATION

Brussels

If you’re interested, please contact us by sending an email to hello@drinkitfresh.com!
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>  Sales & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

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WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Ambitious and want to be part of a fast growing start-up? Looking for a challenge and to have a real impact on the development and sales growth of a cocktail company? Then you should consider DRINK IT FRESH! We are looking for a super motivated Sales & Business developer with a commercial visionary and a hands-on mentality! This proactive sales guy/girl will work closely with the CEO & founders and will:

• Take ownership of sales, business development and key account management for Belgium (Flanders) and Netherlands and potentially other countries in the future
• Consolidate Flanders region: strengthen existing business relationships and find new customers
• Enter and develop the Horeca market in the Netherlands by getting flagship customers
• Use every means to get in contact with prospects (on the field, cold calls, e-mails, etc)
• Identify client needs and suggest appropriate solutions
• Build long term trusting relationships with clients
• Exchange best practices within the team and in particular the current sales team
• Contribute to the sales strategy (market, products, partnerships)
• You are the first point of contact with the customers and the liaison between them and the founders
• Give full support to the founders and the team in day-by-day activities regarding sales
• Report to the founders on sales results
• You are target driven and ready to conquer new countries with our exciting cocktails

SKILLS REQUIRED

It is above all your personality, your determination to have an impact and your motivation to make DRINK IT FRESH a success story, that interests us! Nevertheless, your main skills must be:

• Cocktails loving sales professional wanting to build a strong European brand
• Commercial mindset: you understand that whatever your doing is with an eye on increasing sales
• Professional communication skills, extremely good at relationships and understanding of the customer needs and desires
• Passionate about sales and growth
• Flexible and ready to adapt
• Hard working, ambitious, easy-going, autonomous
• Strong team player
• Dutch and at least French or English; more languages are a plus
• Don’t mind travelling abroad
• You’re convinced by our values: good food, sustainability and “pura vida”!

AS PART OF OUR TEAM, YOU’LL ENJOY:

• A unique opportunity to participate in the development of a young and growing start-up in a stimulating and exciting sector
• Learn: the challenges of a start-up with the impact of a global business
• Grow: have a concrete impact on the company’s (sales) growth
• Have fun: a dynamic and motivating “start-up minded” working environment
• As a Sales & business developer you will get a lot of responsibilities in an international context
• You operate very autonomous with only the founders to report to
• Weekly team lunches and monthly team night outs
• Unlimited delicious (& free) cocktails…
• Flexible working hours
• And much more…

LOCATION

Brussels

If you’re interested, please contact us by sending an email to hello@drinkitfresh.com!
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