Strategy Operations Manager (Founders' Associate)
Brxs, Netherlands
Job Description
As Brxs’ first strategy and operations manager, you will work closely together with the founders and leadership team and your main focus is to steer everything towards a successful launch. In short, you will help identify and prioritise opportunities and problems across various areas, design solutions and execute those. Just a taste of your wide playing field:
- Work closely with our product team to improve customer experience by gathering user insights, running experiments and developing project roadmaps.
- Manage our financial model and planning process and support on funding
- Support on developing our launch strategy both on demand and supply side: customer growth strategy and tactics, operationalising our initial real-estate acquisition plans and turn them into internationally scalable processes
- Making sure we attract the best talent by setting up our recruiting strategy and processes
- Design processes and implement tools to set up our team for success. This can go from designing remote office set-up, researching the best productivity tools, running the company’s OKR process, and more...
Beyond your skills and experience we are looking for someone who thrives in a fast paced environment and who can collaborate well in cross-functional teams. Someone who takes initiative, ownership, can problem solve and execute swiftly towards achieving results. You will play a big part in shaping our company culture and building a strong, diverse and lasting team. This is a great learning opportunity on how to build and scale an early business from scratch with the ability to learn from an experienced team.
Requirements
About you
- 2-3+ years entrepreneurial experience preferably in a fast growing start-up or in consulting, PE/VC or investment banking.
- Humble, Self-aware and Empathetic, period.
- Your decisions are driven by data, insights and analysis.
- You are a self-starter who is proactive and likes to get things done, much rather than just planning and talking about them.
- You find the right balance between detail and swift hands-on execution: we need to move quickly but also do things well.
- Excellent team player with strong communication skills both verbally as written.
- You are naturally curious, enjoy learning new things at a very fast pace and turning those learnings into insights and actions.
What it means to be successful in this role
- Believe in our mission
- Make an impact from day 1: prioritize, move forward and make fast decisions where it matters
- Be a true team player: always collaborate, communicate clearly, truly listen to others and make sure the best ideas win (even if it isn’t our own)
- Problems mean Solutions to you: demonstrate initiative, versatility, creativity and analytical thinking
- Enthusiasm and a Can Do mindset to get the job done well and efficientl