Business Development & Construction Intern

• Business Development & Construction Internship (5 months)
• €400 per month (based on a 4 day work week)
• 4 days per week | Start date: Asap

About Wakuli

We love great coffee. That’s why we’re building an alternative coffee industry that actually works. For both farmers and consumers.

How? By working directly with farmer groups around the world. We set up transparent, traceable export lines, roast the beans ourselves and sell the coffee straight to customers. So no unnecessary middlemen or resellers. Those short supply chains make sure farmers always get a good price.

You’ll find us in 23 (and counting) bars across the Netherlands, and online through our own platform. For customers, that means freshly roasted specialty coffee that’s easy to access, relatively affordable and just seriously delicious.

We are building the new coffee brand of the 21st century with a team of like-minded innovators from all over the world. And we’re looking for you.

Your Role

As an Business Development & Construction Intern you work 4 days a week from our office in Amsterdam, supporting the Construction Manager on the business side of growing our physical footprint. Project management runs through everything that you do here, from planning rollouts to tracking budgets and timelines. You’ll get a real ground-level view of how a fast-growing retail brand plans, budgets and executes new locations - from behind the desk and on-site too.

Project Coordination

• Tracking new location rollouts from a planning and budget perspective
• Coordinating and following up maintenance and construction requests across all locations and head office
• Keeping status overviews per location: what’s open, what’s resolved, what’s next.

Business Development Support

• Supporting the operational and commercial side of scaling new locations (and eventually new markets)
• Helping professionalise current processes so that they can scale internationally

Suppliers & Procurement

• Following up with suppliers: checking lead times, tracking points of contact, requesting and comparing quotes
• Maintaining procurement and budget overviews
• Communicating with regular suppliers for materials, hospitality fit-out and consumables

Stakeholder Management

• Tracking and updating tasks and projects in Asana
• Proactively keeping store managers informed of ongoing matters via Slack and Asana
• Ad hoc operational tasks