About the Role
BonFry is a service provider for gastronomy, hospitality, and food production, focusing on the sustainable use of used cooking oil as a resource for fuel production. Our vision is to create a closed-loop system that transforms restaurant waste into valuable raw materials for the future fuel industry. We enable hundreds of restaurants, wholesalers, and producers to contribute to a sustainable environment by producing sustainable fuels from residual materials with our partners. Our platform connects companies with sustainable solutions – and you can help us take our growth to the next level!
Responsibilities
- Take over new partners after contract signing, ensuring a structured transition from new customer to active BonFry partner.
- Ensure successful activation by making processes and services understandable and guiding initial orders towards stable collaboration.
- Develop partners by monitoring order development, identifying potential, and sustainably increasing volume.
- Identify upselling potential by understanding partners' businesses, analyzing their order behavior, and proactively discussing opportunities for increased collaboration.
- Proactively identify risks, such as missed orders or below-potential volume, and collaboratively develop solutions with partners.
- Build long-term customer relationships, serving as a reliable point of contact, especially during the initial phase.
- Work data-driven and structured, monitoring activation, order volume, revenue development, and open potentials in the CRM system with clean documentation.
- Collaborate closely with Sales and Operations, ensuring handover from new customer acquisition and providing feedback on recurring issues.
- Contribute to shaping our after-sales process by developing partner journeys, follow-ups, and playbooks in conjunction with the Sales team.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a degree program with at least two more semesters remaining; field of study is not important.
- Communicative and sales-oriented, enjoying customer interaction and capable of identifying and conveying potential.
- Comfortable with phone-based communication, as a significant portion of the work involves phone calls.
- Negotiation-level German language skills (C1-C2) for communication with gastronomy and hospitality partners.
- Initial experience with customer contact (B2B sales, inside sales, account management, service, or gastronomy), internships or working student positions count.
- A knack for upselling, understanding the synergy between good customer service and commercial development.
- Proactive work approach, independently identifying areas needing action or potential.
- Basic understanding of the gastronomy and hospitality industry is advantageous.
- Structured and digital work style, comfortable with CRM systems and customer, revenue, and order data.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and sense of responsibility, taking ownership of partners from handover through to stable collaboration.
Skills
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Sales
- Account Management
- Upselling
- Communication
- Data Analysis
- Problem-Solving
- Collaboration
Location
- Germany
Work Type
- Working Student
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- Currently enrolled in a degree program
Benefits
- Subsidized public transport ticket or Swapfiets bicycle subscription.
- Support for professional development through ongoing development discussions, course offerings, and regular training with internal and external partners.
- Motivated team with startup spirit, flat hierarchies, and open communication.
- Inspiring and dynamic work environment with significant scope for design.
About the Company
- BonFry is a service provider for gastronomy, hospitality, and food production.
- We focus on the sustainable use of used cooking oil as a resource for fuel production.
- Our vision is to create a closed-loop system that transforms restaurant waste into valuable raw materials for the future fuel industry.
- We enable hundreds of restaurants, wholesalers, and producers to contribute to a sustainable environment by producing sustainable fuels from residual materials with our partners.
- Our platform connects companies with sustainable solutions.
- We are a young and dynamic team convinced we can make a difference.
- We believe the carbon footprint of products made from residual materials and recyclable waste can be significantly smaller than that of fossil-based alternatives.
- The transition to a circular economy is crucial for achieving carbon-neutral operations today and reducing global warming tomorrow.
- With the support of our investors, the entire team works daily to establish the principle of circular economy in gastronomy and extend the life cycle of cooking oil.
- BonFry is a service company of the Biojoule Group, a greentech company that will significantly simplify access to and mobilization of biomass in the future.
