Business Development Manager

As a Business Development Manager, do you want the freedom to discover new opportunities and markets and truly bring your ideas to life? At Adapteo, this role offers you the chance where entrepreneurship, sustainable growth, and international ambitions come together. From Klundert, you will build new propositions and create opportunities within diverse sectors. This is a vacancy for a driven commercial professional who enjoys pioneering and uncovering customer needs.

Make a difference as a Business Development Manager in the Netherlands

Thanks to your market knowledge, insight, and commercial curiosity, Adapteo discovers new growth opportunities and the organization translates societal and economic developments into concrete business. You will research markets, identify promising customer segments, and actively engage in conversations with existing and potential customers and decision-makers. Subsequently, you will translate insights into propositions, campaigns, and a targeted market approach together with account managers, marketing, product development, and other internal colleagues. You will qualify opportunities and support large or complex customer journeys. The role is national and consists of approximately 60% office work and 40% market activities. This way, you combine analysis and strategy with personal contact and commercial action.

In short, you will take the lead in:

• analyzing market developments and identifying new sectors, customer segments, and commercial opportunities;

• developing concepts, propositions, campaigns, and market approaches;

• initiating conversations with existing and potential customers and relevant decision-makers;

• qualifying, structuring, and handing over business opportunities to Account Managers;

• sharing market insights and training the sales team on commercial concepts or approaches for specific sales markets.

As an enthusiastic Business Development Manager, you can count on:

Significant ownership within an organization with European growth ambitions. You will have the space to pioneer, develop ideas, and further develop yourself and the organization. From this position, you can grow towards operational management, a role as an industry specialist, or potentially an international function.

Based on a full-time employment, you will also receive:

• gross annual salary up to €84,000;

• bonus scheme;

• 32 vacation days + 15 ATV days

• pension scheme through BPF Bouw;

• phone, laptop, and an electric lease car;

• part of the CAO Timmerindustrie (Wood Industry Collective Labor Agreement);

• growth opportunities or training programs.

For this vacancy, you bring:

You are curious about markets and people, and you ask questions that uncover their true needs. You combine analytical and conceptual thinking with strong relational skills. Thanks to your structure, you can keep an overview of multiple opportunities and campaigns simultaneously. You take initiative, bring in ideas, and know how to translate market information into a concrete commercial approach.

Do you also tick off this checklist?

• Bachelor's or Master's degree work and thinking level;

• at least 5 years of experience in a commercial role and consultative selling;

• experience with project-based trajectories;

• strong analytical skills, allowing you to effectively monitor opportunities and priorities;

• ability to translate needs and desires into conceptual solutions;

• experience in researching and building new market segments;

• excellent command of the Dutch and English languages.

Your work area

Your base location is Klundert, and from there, you will focus on opportunities throughout the Netherlands. You will divide your time between the office, working from home, and appointments with (potential) clients. Regular travel within the Netherlands is therefore part of the job, and occasional international travel may occur. Adapteo preferably seeks someone who lives within approximately 50 kilometers of Klundert.

Working at Adapteo

Adapteo develops, rents, and sells modular spaces for, among others, construction and industry, offices, childcare, education, healthcare, and government. The organization aims to respond to changing needs with adaptable spaces while simultaneously contributing to sustainable, circular solutions. In the Netherlands, approximately 160 out of about 600 employees work there. Collaboration is important: You will liaise extensively with account managers, marketing, product development, and your managers. The commercial organization is in full development, creating opportunities right now to contribute ideas, take ownership, and professionalize further together.

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Does this vacancy make your heart beat faster and have you ticked off the checklist? Don't wait too long, because as soon as we find a suitable candidate, we will close the vacancy. Applying is simple and quick via our apply button. Don't forget to add an up-to-date CV and a specific motivation? Have questions about the vacancy? Contact Aron at phone number 06-19205064 or email at ----- Perhaps we will speak soon!

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