Full-Time
Chief of Staff
SKR Reisen
51-200 employees
Small-group international tours with sustainable practices
No salary listed
Cologne, Germany
Hybrid
Hybrid work in Cologne.
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- You have at least 3 years of relevant professional experience.
- Ideally, you have experience with fast-growing or fast-moving companies, such as scale-ups, management consulting, investment banking, or business development.
- You demonstrate structured thinking and clear communication.
- You remain calm in stressful situations and can prioritize.
- You have operational decision-making ability combined with analytical foresight.
- You have a positive attitude and learn quickly.
- You are clear and direct in substance while remaining friendly in manner.
- You are comfortable with both analytical and operational activities.
- You want to actively shape the company.
- You own the annual strategy process, steering and monitoring measurable progress toward the annual missions, organizing and improving relevant processes, decision routines, and controlling systems, and creating transparency for stakeholders.
- You leverage the CEO by helping the CEO focus on high-impact topics, preparing management meetings, offsites, and workshops, ensuring follow-up on priorities, and creating high-quality presentations and decision documents.
- You steer selected high-impact projects that do not fit clearly within a business area or support business areas with such projects, including developing a self-optimizing system to reduce cross-functional friction, developing a business case for a solar engagement in Vietnam, and analyzing and removing growth barriers for travel products.
- You increase the sustainability of the corporate group by providing substantive leadership for sustainability, developing systems for planning and optimizing sustainability engagements, proactively steering them, and making measurable impact results transparent internally and externally.
- Experience with fast-growing or fast-moving companies, such as scale-ups, management consulting, investment banking, or business development.
SKR Reisen organisiert kleine Gruppen fern- und innereuropäische Reisen weltweit, mit maximal 12 Teilnehmern auf Fernreisen und maximal 16 in Europa. Über 350 Reiseideen decken Asien, Afrika, Amerika, Orient, Ozeanien und Europa ab, inklusive deutschsprachiger lokaler Guides und landestypischer Hotels, bei gutem Preis-Leistungsverhältnis. Die Reisen setzen auf sozial und ökologisch verantwortliches Handeln: faire Arbeitsbedingungen, TourCert-Zertifizierung, CO2e-Berechnungen und Unterstützung von ClimatePartner-Klimaschutzprojekten. Ziel ist es, authentische, nachhaltige Reisen zu erschwinglichen Preisen anzubieten und damit verantwortungsvolles Reisen weltweit zu fördern.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
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Headquarters
Germany
Founded
1978
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2025 Europe catalog added ten new trips, including Madeira, Bulgaria, and Rome.
- June 2025 long-haul launch added 14 new trips, signaling continued demand-led expansion.
- Demand looks strong: SKR reported over 8,000 bookable dates and ahead-of-year bookings.
What critics are saying
- Online complaint venues already show recurring service disputes; reputational drag can compound fast.
- Large catalog breadth invites operational complexity across 8,000-plus departures and multiple continents.
- If quality slips on small-group promises, SKR Reisen loses its core positioning quickly.
What makes SKR Reisen unique
- SKR Reisen sells small-group trips, usually 4-16 guests, with authentic local encounters.
- 2026 Europe catalog spans 163 itineraries across 32 countries and over 2,400 departures.
- 2026/2027 long-haul catalog offers 165 roundtrips in 63 countries, all capped at 12 guests.
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↓ -1%Vietnam’s rooftop solar sector is evolving from subsidy-driven growth to financially disciplined expansion, with debt financing enabling scalable SME-focused deployments
SmartSolar, a Vietnam-based energy tech startup, has raised $1.3 million in debt financing from European investors. SECO Startup Fund, a Swiss government programme, provided a $300,000 loan, whilst German travel company SKR Reisen contributed $1 million in debt facility. Founded in 2024 by Kevin Junker, SmartSolar operates a "solar-as-a-service" model, installing rooftop solar panels for SMEs at zero upfront cost. Customers pay based on monthly energy consumption, saving 25% to 30% on electricity costs. The startup has grown from 15 customers in March 2025 to 80 clients across 100 locations in southern and central Vietnam. The new funding will support expansion across the country and growth in food and beverage and travel sectors. Total funding now exceeds $3.1 million.