Events Coordinator, Butternut Box
3+ days a week in office
Putting the food back into dog food
Job no longer available
Putting the food back into dog food
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally you will have some event coordination experience, but we are also happy to consider applicants that are looking for their first step into this sector
- You must have demonstrable evidence that you are highly organised, ambitious, motivated and eager to learn from those around you
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Able to commit to occasional travel around the UK and weekend work (this is a hybrid role with working days split between the office, working from home and sometimes in the field at top events)
- Be a huge dog lover of course!
What the job involves
- In your first 3-6 months at Butternut you will:
- Learn about Butternut’s story, mission and wider team org structure (and where your role fits within this)
- Start to form strong relationships and build trust across other teams in the business including direct sales, events and logistics
- Embed yourself into the culture of the direct sales team, and then start to add to it as well
- Learn a lot about our ways of working and deliverables from your peers
- Start taking ownership of your first events with the support of the wider events team
- Learn how we track targets and measure cost per acquisition and start to practice these processes yourself using Google Sheets
- Spend time in our London office with our other Events Coordinators and wider Sales team
- What we expect from you after the first 3-6 months:
- You are comfortable with planning ahead and carefully coordinating your events to ensure they run smoothly from start to finish. This includes negotiating with event organisers on things like price and location of pitch, building relationships with our brand ambassadors and supporting on wider events projects (like sponsorships)
- You are confident in finding and booking accommodation for the team and liaising with accommodation hosts
- You do all your own reporting, analysis and visualising on key KPI’s to the team and wider business
- You are able to identify any new events that we should be going to as a business & take proactive steps to help us break into them
- You understand our customer base and the competitive events landscape surrounding it
- You have built strong, cross departmental relationships
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Nowadays, consumers are not only getting more fussy about what they eat, but also what their pets eat. Butternut Box caters to this trend for the 11 million pet dogs in the UK, with dishes cooked with fresh ingredients and portioned according to the dog's breed, weight, sex and exercise routine.
Butternut Box’s platform uses computer algorithms to work out the individual needs of each dog, bringing technological innovation to a market that has not seen much of it. With the UK dog food industry worth over £1.5 billion, there is a massive potential market for the company, before even considering international growth.
In order to expand its appeal, Butternut Box has been diversifying its products to include environmentally conscious food, treats and wellness products and services for dogs. Having already launched into a few European markets, the company has acquired Polish fresh dog food company PsiBufet to help extend its operations in Central and Eastern Europe, whilst 2023's substantial VC round will help it to build on its already impressive momentum.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2023
$369.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2021
$52.8m
SERIES D
Total funding: $477.2m
Company benefits
- Butternut Discount - Many of our squad have a special dog(s) in their lives; so we are delighted to offer a generous discount so that more dogs can enjoy Butternut and live healthier & happier lives
- 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
- 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
- £500 personal learning & development budget
- Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
- Flexible working hours and work from home options
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension with NEST
- Private Medical Insurance with Vitality & Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
- Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
- Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
- Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London, UK
Leadership
Kevin Glynn
(Co-founder)Previously an Associate at Goldman Sachs.
David Nolan
(Co-founder)Previously a Trader at Goldman Sachs.
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