Littledart Fulfilment
Founders Associate
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Founder's Assistant & Graduate Business Associate
Littledart Fulfilment Limited
Location: Devon — based across our Drayford Lane, Witheridge and South Molton sites, with primary base at Drayford Lane
Reports to: Will Martin, Co-Founder & CEO
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Salary: £24,000 – £27,000, dependent on experience
About Littledart Fulfilment
LDF is a fast-growing, premium third-party logistics (3PL) business based in rural Devon. We provide high-touch order fulfilment and outsourced customer care to some of the UK's most exciting direct-to-consumer brands. Founded in 2021, we've grown from a standing start to a multi-site operation turning over £2.5M+, and we're not done yet — with new client wins, an expanding customer care division, and international plans on the horizon.
We're deliberately different from big-box logistics: small sheds, close client relationships, and genuine care for the brands we serve. That means the pace is quick, the problems are varied, and no two days look the same.
The Role
This is a rare opportunity to work directly alongside the CEO of a growing SME and see how a business really runs — commercially, operationally and financially. Think of it as a paid apprenticeship in general management.
You'll act as the CEO's right hand: part executive assistant, part project manager, part business analyst. One week you might be preparing board pack materials or pricing a new client proposal; the next you might be coordinating a site project, improving an internal process, or sitting in on client and supplier negotiations.
The role is designed for someone early in their career who wants breadth before depth — exposure to finance, sales, operations, HR, IT and strategy inside a single business — with real responsibility from day one.
What You'll Do
Executive support
- Manage the CEO's diary, inbox triage and travel, protecting time for the things that matter most
- Prepare agendas, take minutes and — critically — chase the actions that come out of meetings
- Draft correspondence, briefing notes and presentations to a standard the CEO can put his name to
- Act as a first point of contact for clients, suppliers and advisers, handling matters with discretion
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Projects and coordination
- Run small internal projects end to end — from site improvements to new system rollouts
- Keep project trackers, deadlines and stakeholders moving without needing to be chased yourself
- Coordinate across our three sites and the wider management team
- Support client onboarding, from first proposal through to go-live
Analysis and reporting
- Build and maintain reports on volumes, margins, headcount and site performance
- Help prepare monthly management information and quarterly board packs
- Pull together the numbers behind pricing proposals and commercial decisions
- Investigate the questions that don't have an obvious answer, and come back with a view
Business operations
- Improve the processes and documentation that hold a growing business together
- Support recruitment, onboarding and people administration alongside the management team
- Help maintain supplier relationships, contracts and renewal calendars
- Spend time on the warehouse floor — you can't help run a fulfilment business from a desk
What You'll Learn
By the end of your first year you should be able to read a set of management accounts and know what to ask about them, price a piece of work and understand where the margin sits, run a project to a deadline across multiple stakeholders, and hold your own in a client or supplier conversation. You'll have seen how a board operates, how a growing SME makes decisions under pressure, and where the real constraints in a business lie.
We'll support you toward professional qualifications where they fit — previous team members have progressed into funded degree apprenticeships and management roles.
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Who We're Looking For
Essential
- A recent graduate (any discipline) or equivalent early-career experience, with a genuine curiosity about business
- Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and the ability to juggle competing priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication — you'll draft documents the CEO puts his name to
- Confident with numbers and comfortable in Excel; able to build a simple analysis from scratch
- Discreet and trustworthy — you'll handle confidential commercial and people matters
- Proactive and resourceful: you spot what needs doing and do it, rather than waiting to be asked
- A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (our sites are rural)
Desirable
- Interest in e-commerce, logistics or consumer brands
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Teams, Power Automate a bonus)
- Any experience of a small or family business environment
What We Offer
- Direct mentorship from a CEO with a chartered accountancy background and an Executive MBA
- Genuine breadth: exposure to every function of a growing business
- Real responsibility early — your work will land in front of the board and clients
- Support for professional development and further qualifications
- A close-knit team in a beautiful part of Devon
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, and free on-site parking
How to Apply
Send your CV and a short covering note (no more than one page) telling us about a time you took the initiative to make something better at work, at university, or anywhere else to will@littledartfulfilment.co.uk.
Applications close. Early applications are encouraged; we will interview on a rolling basis.
Littledart Fulfilment is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are happy to discuss flexible arrangements.
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