Business Development Lead 🔥

Who You Are

Your character and values are just as important to us as your experience and skills. We only hire really kind people!

Values we’d love from you:

• Has a growth mindset
• Very organised!
• Sense of humour with a healthy dose of humility
• Gains energy from being around others – and interested in others.
• Driven to be the best
• Loves learning and relishes any opportunity to improve
• Loves solving problems – and takes ownership of them
• Able to take (and give) constructive feedback
• Positive – a glass half full kind of person

Role

As our BD Lead you will be responsible for getting our grub onto menus across the UK, and organising activation events (pop-ups, samplings, festivals etc).

You’ll be:

• Finding restaurants to list our grub, and managing their accounts
• Working directly with our CEO to build and refine our sales playbook
• Managing all activations and events (pop-ups, samplings, festivals etc.)
• Occasionally working on weekends (ie. to run events)
• Jumping in to help other team members every so often, when necessary

What you need to do the job effectively:

• Believe insects are the future of food, and have a strong desire to help create a more sustainable food system
• Genuinely like our products to the point that you would actually eat them yourself
• Be a spreadsheet wizard
• Able to communicate clearly and lead a team – particularly for running events
• Charismatic and charming with amazing people skills
• Clean UK driving licence
• Speak, read and write in perfect English

Bonus (but not at all essential): 

• Have sold products into restaurants before or sold anything for a food brand.
• Experience running events

What You'll Get

£25k – £35k per annum, company share options, a real opportunity to shape the future of food with a young, fun and ambitious team in role of a lifetime (we think!), and have a blast along the way!