Strategy & Business Development Associate

 
Be extraordinary - Excite the ordinary

Our vision is to make a healthy and sustainable lifestyle the most attractive choice. So we defy: the status quo, misleading product, and nonsense rules We truly believe in the power of ideas and are thirsty to realize the ones that could have impact. We're an eclectic bunch of creative minds, experts, builders, and improvers. Our perspectives, cultures, backgrounds, dreams, skills, and life paths may have nothing in common, but we gather behind a vision and sail together towards our ambitious goals.

Are you looking to take on a new challenge? Let's talk.

As a Strategy & Business Development Associate, you'll be a key player on our central Strategy team, driving our most critical growth initiatives. You'll dive deep into the projects that are shaping our future: supporting our expansion into new markets, coordinating key growth projects, and helping to craft the strategic narrative we share with our teams and investors.

***This role is located in Munich***

Your responsibilities

• Orchestrate our Growth Bets: Own the PMO process for our most critical company initiatives, running the planning and review cycles that keep our key projects on track and moving at lightning speed.
• Drive International Expansion Projects: Take the lead on the analytical deep-dives and project management needed to enter new markets, from initial research and recommendation through to supporting and driving a successful launch.
• Tackle Cross-Functional Challenges: Jump into diverse, high-priority initiatives across the company, acting as a project lead to structure the problem, align teams, and drive the project to a successful outcome.
• Contribute to Our Strategic Narrative: Support our leadership team by crafting compelling materials for investor relations, key internal communications, and overall corporate strategy projects.

This is you 

• You've earned your wings with 2+ years of experience in strategy/management consulting or a similar role in a fast-paced company, and are comfortable in an international, agile project environment.
• You're a sharp analytical thinker with strong business acumen and an entrepreneurial mindset that drives you to think in solutions, not problems.
• You are a clear and confident communicator in English, skilled at structuring complex topics into compelling, data-driven presentations and stories.
• You have strong project management skills, embracing the importance of clear planning and tracking. You know what good agile practices look like and are familiar with tools like Asana.
• You are motivated by a fast-changing environment and love to connect the dots. You enjoy rolling up your sleeves, diving into unknown topics and getting your hands dirty to drive things forward with an 80/20 mentality.
• You believe no obstacle is too high and are looking for a like-minded team that is ready to change the way we live.

The benefits listed below are intended for full-time employees. For other employment types, including working students and minijobbers, benefits may differ based on the terms of their contract and applicable regulations.
But what's in for you?

30 days of vacation

discount on our products

employer-funded pension & location related insurances (may vary per country)

purpose built office in MUC 

personal development

regular team events

start-up spirit

workation options (availability may differ by role)

air up have developed an innovative and world-first drinking system. Through scent alone, the air up bottle brings flavour to simple tap water and can be enjoyed without any single-use plastic bottles, sugar, or additives. air up is a young, fast-growing company filled with ambitious and creative minds from various backgrounds.

air up is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an equal opportunity environment for all persons free of discriminatory behaviour. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. 

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