Business Development Director

Location: Germany

SIRE Life Sciences® is the market leader in life science recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continues innovation. We like technology, in a life science market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!

THE COMPANY

Our client is a professional Agriculture organization, based in .

The company of our client is well known within the agricultural Crop Protection businesses. It produces a wide range of (bio)crop protection products/materials for all over the world. Biotechnology and microbiology are the way to go within this company. Their Brand name is: Biobest

Is based at the Group Headquarters in Westerlo (Belgium)

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Their focus is mainly aimed at Biological Crop protection, Innovation, quality consistency and technology developments. Being a long existing business, their knowledge and services are the key drivers for their success. The demand for their product keeps increasing and their company keeps growing.

Clustering knowledge from multiple disciplines of which each has their own specialty results in excitement and a boost in their investments and results.
As Business Development Director you will be the expert of the business expansion and growth in this field. Your focus will be aimed at understanding the association between value brought forward by individuals and the results that team efforts can realize.

Thus it is your responsibility to translate these results and understand how to trigger them. All together an interesting combination between Marketing and New Business Development including your leadership abilities.

Being part of a well-integrated team while being the leader in this field presents much responsibility, owner ship and at the same time plenty of opportunities for your personal/career development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Leads the product management and communication teams

Coordinates the development of Biobest value proposition

Helps the product management team align product offering with corporate strategy and develop and roll-out international product launches for Biobest innovations

Develops market intelligence

Coordinates market and customer needs research activities

Is responsible to ensure that Biobest, its products, strategies and activities are prominently visible and positively perceived by all stakeholders (in particular growers and distributors)

Develops marketing instruments at group level to support and streamline marketing actions conducted by different Biobest subsidiaries across the globe

REQUIREMENTS

Have an M.Sc. in Plant Sciences, Bio-engineering or equivalent

Have at least 5 years business experience serving the horticultural industry

Be passionate about sustainability and up to speed on sustainable crop management (IPM and Plant Health)

Be creative and innovation-driven

Have strong written and oral communication skills

Be skilled in project management; experience with “stage-gate” process is an advantage

Have an ability to lead and motivate a team and to manage external service providers

Demonstrate experience in B2B marketing, including with the use of internet and social media

Enthusiastic and be able to inspire customers, employees and other stakeholders

Be fluent in English, other languages especially Spanish are a major asset (FR, ES, DE, NL)

Be prepared to travel on a regular basis

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Floris van Zuthem.