Chief of Staff

About Algrano

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At Algrano, a tech-focused coffee startup from Switzerland, we are on a mission to reshape the global coffee trade. We are driven by an ambitious goal: to revolutionize the age-old coffee trade industry, making it both transparent and digital.

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‍Via Algrano's online marketplace, coffee farmers can effortlessly promote and sell their coffees directly to roasters in Europe and the USA. Algrano provides the online (marketplace) and offline infrastructure (logistics, insurance, financing). 

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Honored with the Best Innovation award by the European Coffee Industry Association in 2015 for our launch and again in 2022 for our achievements, we currently serve over 1,000 sellers and roasters in more than 50 countries. With the support of a robust investor network, our vision is to become the premier platform for direct coffee trading globally.

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The role

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As Chief of Staff, you serve as a strategic right-hand to the  executive leadership team, driving alignment between vision and execution across our rapidly scaling global coffee platform. In this pivotal role, you own critical deliverables, tackle high-stakes strategic problems and operate at the nerve centre of a venture pushing the edge of trading. Reporting directly to the CEO and co-founder, you collaborate closely with our C-suite—including the COO, CFO, CTO, and CCO—to maintain operational excellence, to translate high-level strategic priorities into actionable outcomes and to ensure communication and execution across all levels of the organization. 

• Drive strategic planning processes: Assisting with strategic planning and decision-making
• Own and orchestrate high-impact, enterprise wide initiatives: Breaking down complex strategic initiatives into executable workstreams, removing cross-functional bottlenecks, and leading critical company-wide projects deliver results on time and within scope.
• Lead comprehensive market research initiatives and analyze industry trends: Conducting market research and supporting business development efforts. 
• Amplify leadership capacity: handling high-stakes operational tasks, synthesizing complex information for decision-making, managing administrative burdens and ensuring the smooth running of the company
• Design, implement, and drive adoption of scalable operational frameworks and company-wide processes: Leading the design, implementation and adoption of company-wide processes, ensuring they are aligned with overall business objectives.
• Orchestrate board-related activities: Leading the meeting preparation, agenda development, materials compilation, and follow-up execution  (in collaboration with the Chairman and CEO). 

This role is for a young professional talent who wants to thrive in a fast growing company, performs at high level under pressure, is inspired by our bold vision and impact and  wants to learn from the dynamic startup environment. 

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Your profile

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• Education: You hold a university degree in Finance, Economics or Business. 
• Professional experience: You have worked a few years in a top tier strategic consulting firm or investment bank or in  a similar intense and high demanding environment.
• Project Management Experience: You know how to set-up, manage and oversee projects for success. 
• Data affinity: For you leading a business is a numbers game. You know how to use data analytic tools and are able to answer your questions with data yourself. 
• Financial skills: Top tier financial analytics skills. 
• Strategic thinker and strong communicator  You are able to reduce complex systems  into simple logic and align different time horizons into meaningful easy to communicate strategic action plans. 
• Outstanding work ethic: you own the business’ success and you follow the highest standards of integrity and discretion. ‍
• Mission driven and ambitious: you are convinced by the long term transformational power of the Algrano model on the coffee industry. This potential fuels you, you have the willingness and the courage  to support the leadership team in this ambitious way. ‍
• Learning mindset: You are interested in understanding the current  complex trading system and how to run and build a global disruptive technology company.  ‍
• Value alignment: Your co-employees and friends describe you as humble and down to earth. You strongly believe it is possible to dream big, be ambitious while keeping feet on the ground and stay humble in all circumstances.‍
• Intercultural sensitivity and affinity with languages: You speak at least English and German fluently. ‍
• You are based in Switzerland, and eligible to work in Switzerland and are able to work in our Zurich office at least twice a week.

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