Account Manager

Job Description

About Caravela

Caravela Coffee is a team of over 200 coffee professionals currently located in 12 different countries, with our own export operations in 7 Latin American countries in Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru, and 5 import operations in Australia, North America, Taiwan, Ireland, and the UK. Since 2000, we’ve been on a mission to make specialty coffee as prosperous as it is delicious by facilitating the equitable exchange of green coffee between highly skilled coffee producers in Latin America and high-quality coffee roasters around the world. To do this, we develop our BETTER COFFEE initiative, based on five main principles: meaningful work, building connections, empowering communities, embracing diversity, responsibility, and sustainability.

What we do

At Caravela Coffee, our work goes beyond buying and selling coffee. We are a collective of coffee experts working to create and deliver as much value for the specialty coffee chain as we can imagine. We connect the most talented coffee growers and the most committed coffee roasters, developing true partnerships that lead to improved quality, prosperity, and sustainability for the entire coffee chain.

How we do it

We achieve this by working directly with close to 4 thousand small and medium-sized coffee farmers in 7 Latin American countries, constantly providing them with education, technical assistance and access to the world's best coffee roasters around the World, paying prosperous prices for their best coffees. The results are a better coffee world. Our partnerships are founded on the principle that coffee farmers deserve more than just fair incomes, by fostering these partnerships, our aim goes beyond boosting coffee farmers' incomes; we also seek to uplift the communities they call home and enhance their quality of life. Simultaneously, we are committed to offering coffee consumers a superior and more sustainable product, showcasing our commitment to mutual growth and prosperity. Our model has been validated as a high-impact model by BCorp since 2014, being the highest-rated coffee BCorp in the World. We have been named a 'Best-For-the-World' company by BLabs for five years in a row.

We are looking for a courageous, driven, resilient, and empathetic person capable of blending sharp business acumen with a passion for specialty coffee. This person will play a crucial role in embedding our values of quality, transparency, and sustainability into every facet of our operation to deepen existing relationships, develop new relationships, and establish the Caravela brand as North America’s preferred specialty green coffee partner. This opportunity is for someone excited to create a positive impact in the entire coffee community and drive outcomes that many would consider unreasonable.

We are seeking a self-motivated