Expansion Fellow at BURN

About the role

• The New Market Expansion Fellow will apply their professional knowledge and expertise to support BURN’s expansion efforts at a strategic and execution level, working on market research, analysis, and market testing execution. We are looking for someone who is interested in working in a dynamic, challenging environment, for a company that recognizes and rewards creativity, initiative, and contributions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Expansion Strategy: Maintaining new market scoping process and KPIs. Includes desk research, assessing route-to-market for new markets, and producing regular and detailed research reports based on this research and tracking. 
• Market Research: manage processes and systems for Expansion of market research and test sales. 
• Collaboration: Be an organizer and go-between with BURN’s business intelligence, market research, sales, and senior management teams for tracking and reporting on Expansion project execution 
• Reporting: produce analytical reports on the development of new market entry initiatives and performance of markets, including analyzing and reporting on Expansion sales and marketing activities and staff performance 
• Expansion Admin: Advising on and drafting HR & finance structures. Assisting with HR, finance, & other admin. 
• Projects: Carrying out specific expansion projects falling outside the scope of existing Business Development staff.

Skills and Experience

• MBA or bachelor’s degree
• Previous experience in strategic/management consulting and/or market research
• Knowledge of sales and marketing fields 
• Excellent Communication skills in written and spoken English and ideally in French.
• Strong analysis/number-crunching background 
• Excellent graphical presentation skill
• Excellent desktop and networking research skills.
• Initiative – Must be a self-starter, ambitious and excited for the role. 
• Curiosity – intrinsic interest in digging for + capable of connecting disparate pieces of information to build knowledge, come to insightful conclusions and share interesting recommendations.  
• Solid grasp of or proven interest in carbon/clean cooking 
• Knowledge of or experience in business, sales, expansion, marketing, or business development