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 are building the future of coffee. One that is seriously good for drinkers, farmers and the planet. How? By working directly with farmer groups around the world. We set up transparent, traceable export lines, freshly roast ourselves and serve the coffee straight to customers. These short supply chains make sure we can always pay farmers a good price, while also investing in fully regenerative coffee production. You’ll find us in bars across the Netherlands, and online through our own platform. For customers, that means freshly roasted specialty coffee that’s easy to get, and just seriously delicious. We are building the future of coffee with a team of like-minded people 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