Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Marketing & Communications Coordinator on a full time basis to work in a truly global environment to improve Volcafe’s brand recognition and further anchor Volcafe’s position in the industry reporting to Head of Marketing & Communications. The role provides long term development potential for someone eager to demonstrate their skills and experience in the fast-paced soft commodities environment.
Business Overview
Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.
Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.
The successful candidate could be based at any of our European offices Madrid (Spain), Genoa (Italy), Bremen (Germany) or Winterthur (Switzerland) on an hybrid basis.
Key Accountabilities
- Further develop internal communications through curating content, planning and developing the monthly company internal newsletter.
- Coordinate and manage Volcafe’s presence on social media, provide guidance to the local teams, act as Community Manager
- Support the Head of Marketing & Communications in further enhancing the communications to customers, lead migration to a CRM system
- Support the Head of Marketing & Communications in ensuring consistency and developing guidance for commercial events
- Support the team in producing marketing and communications content, from stories and case studies to employee testimonials
- In cooperation with the Global HR team, initiate and organise company-wide internal events
- Support the management team and employees develop professional and on-brand presentations
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor / Master degree in marketing, communications, or business degree with focus in marketing is preferred
- 2-3 years’ experience in a Marketing and Communications operational role – preferably in a B2B environment
- Previous experience in digital communications including managing social media account(s), email communications
- Strong presentation skills
- Fluency in English is essential. Knowledge of Spanish is advantageous
- Strong organisations skills
- Flair for design and creativity, knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite or other similar software is a plus
- Hands-on mentality, self-motivated, proactive and attentive to details
- Ideally based in Spain, but other European locations will be considered
As an ever-friendly reminder: Researchers have found that men apply to roles when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Women and other underrepresented groups tend to apply only when they check every box. If you are interested, but don’t feel like you meet every single point on the job description, please still apply!
Our Offer
We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.
Our Values
Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship
Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.
Our Commitment
We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.
We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.
To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.
