Events & Engagement Coordinator

At Picnic, we’re revolutionising the way people buy groceries with our innovative and sustainable app-only service. We do almost everything in-house, developing cutting-edge technologies and processes to ensure we continue to grow rapidly without missing a beat. If you're passionate about internal communication and employee engagement, we’re offering you the opportunity to join the diverse team at our Dusseldorf HQ and make a real difference in our scale-up environment.

🥜 In a nutshell

As part of the Communications & Engagement team, you contribute to an engaging and inspiring work environment in which our growing team of 10,000+ employees and 500+ team leads can get the best out of themselves. You organise events and celebrations and expand our internal communication and engagement calendar around Picnic’s mission and values. Together with your colleagues from the international Communications & Engagement team, you will work to realise our mission: to be the best place to work for our employees!

🎯 What you’ll do

Create engagement initiatives for operational and central employees in Germany to drive employee satisfaction:

• Maintain our engagement calendar, build engagement programs around Picnic’s mission and values
• Partner with our business stakeholders and employees to ensure our events meet their goals and needs

Build further on Picnic as a place where people feel connected to our mission​, connected to co-workers​ and feel valued for contributions:

• Create and organise team-by-team and company-wide events, and celebrate successes​ like periodic business updates and annual parties (Summer, Christmas, Picnic’s anniversary)
• Manage employee delight programs (e.g.: Christmas gifts, merchandise, milestone celebrations)

⭐ About you

• BSc. degree in Hospitality, Event Management, or a similar field
• 3+ years of professional experience in the field of event management
• Fluent in English and German (basic knowledge of Dutch/French would be a plus)
• Project management skills: you can manage projects internationally and get things done (with colleagues from other teams)
• Financially savvy: you make budget-conscious decisions and optimise resources to achieve the best results
• Creative mind: you generate new ideas and have a good feeling for marketing
• Conceptual thinker: you have the ability to create engagement concepts that match employee and business needs

🏅 Your benefits

• Join a fast-growing business with significant upward potential and career growth
• Engage with talented Picnic'ers with a lot of international exposure
• Work in our Düsseldorf office and embrace the Picnic culture of wonderful free breakfasts and lunches, memorable parties featuring the renowned Picnic band and even a company ski trip
• Travel throughout Germany with your Deutschland ticket
• All other essential items: competitive salary, 30 vacation days, comprehensive pension plan, laptop and phone

Please submit your application in English.