Co-Ground Coffee

We all know Melbourne has the best coffee in the world. But what if you could get it anywhere, anytime?

Co-Ground Coffee is a social enterprise coffee cart service that offers specialty coffee made by skilled baristas for events and functions. Our coffee carts are mobile and bookings range from public promotions, office-based functions, weddings, conferences and large-scale events.

We work with industry leaders Five Senses Coffee and La Marzocco who support our team to provide high quality coffee service with 100% of the profits made through sales supporting Co-Ground community projects.

We are seeking a skilled sales and marketing professional to join our growing team and help us take Co-Ground Coffee to the next level.

Co-Ground

Co-Ground is a registered Not-For-Profit organisation and sole owner of Co-Ground Coffee. Co-Ground supports community-driven education, health and livelihood projects in the Asia-Pacific while building community around social enterprise here in Australia.

The Opportunity

Potential to earn a highly competitive salary (base plus bonus) and directly contribute to scaling a Melbourne-based social enterprise. The position involves generating new business and increasing sales revenue of Co-Ground Coffee cart services. Every successful booking supports our community education, health and livelihood projects in the Asia-Pacific.

The successful applicant will have a proven track record in the development and implementation of sales and marketing strategies. You will play a key role within a Melbourne based Not-For-Profit and work within a vibrant staff and volunteer team to engage new audiences across Melbourne through speciality coffee service.

Did we mention you will have the option to enjoy unlimited coffee training courses and learn more about the amazing coffee we serve if this is what your heart desires.

If you feel the following represents you, we invite you to apply for this exciting new role with tangible social outcomes.

• Self motivated and passionate about about driving new business
• At least 4 years business to business sales and marketing experience and a proven track record of implementing successful sales growth; achieving monthly sales targets, converting inbound leads and enquiries, identifying and converting targeted outbound targets and creating sustainable collaborative relationships
• Polished written and verbal communication skills
• An interest in supporting a social enterprise to reach its full potential
• Passionate about supporting empowered communities and changing lives through improving education, health and livelihoods.
• Well organised and able to keep to sales targets
• Comfortable problem solving and working collaboratively with staff and stakeholders
• Able to form genuine relationships with our clients and positively represent our brand and organisation
• Be confident in identifying future opportunities for Co-Ground Coffee
• Comfortable promoting Co-Ground’s brand through social media and online channels
• Positively represent our organisation, communities, projects and the social enterprise sector
• Able to commit a minimum of 3 days (24 hours) per week for a minimum of 12 month

Join Us

Whether this position is suited to you, or not, please keep in touch! Follow our story on social media, help us connect with others who might be interested, come and grab a coffee, or even put your hand-up to volunteer in another capacity. Co-Ground is possible thanks to many people doing good things.

We look forward to meeting you!

The Co-Ground team

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