Your mission

Depending on your experience, this role can start either as an internship with a path toward a permanent position, or directly as a Junior Account Manager. Your primary objective will be to increase the P&L by sourcing and executing profitable transactions. This will require a combination of analytical skills and effective client interaction.

Your role is pivotal in enhancing Vanilla Steel's growth and establishing robust, profitable operations. You will engage in diverse company activities, specifically tailored to align with Vanilla Steel’s evolving business needs.

You can expect to:

• Manage metal markets

• Generate brokerage and trading activity on behalf of Vanilla Steel

• Ensure thorough follow-up on deals, coordinating with the operations team for seamless logistics and payment processes

• Leverage existing client relationships - be a key account manager for our customers with both supplier and buyer coverage

• Proactively reach out to potential new clients, initiating cold contacts and arranging meetings to expand our customer base

• Manage operational activities of the trading platform, such as preparing transactional data and order confirmations

• Analyse and report on operational processes to increase efficiencies and scalability

Your profile

• Ambitious, entrepreneurial, and target-driven mentality

• Strong analytical skills, structured thinking and hands-on attitude

• Solid organizational capabilities

• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, together with exceptional verbal and written communication abilities

• Fluency in English and at least one additional European language (e.g. German or Polish) is required for this role.

Why us?

• First hand experience with an exciting Berlin tech startup on a steep growth curve

• Work closely with an experienced team, keen to train and invest in you

• Fast-paced environment and strong company culture for high performing individuals

• Unrivalled autonomy and ownership

• Open and fun shared working environment/culture

• Office located in the heart of Berlin

• Flexible working hours with hybrid work

• Competitive compensation, depending on experience

• Urban Sports Club membership

• BVG Ticket subsidized

• Regular team building events

About us

We are a Berlin-based startup that has successfully established a leading digital-first trading company for industrial metals across Europe. 

The multi-billion-euro metal trading industry is operated on Excel, PDF and Email. Our mission is to integrate smart technology and data to drive every decision, transaction, and workflow in the steel industry. Our technologies & services increase liquidity, accelerate transactions, reduce scrapping rates and enhance trading convenience for hundreds of steel and metal distributors across Europe.