Business Development Director

Location: Belgium

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 and Food organization, based in Belgium.

Our client is Biobest a leading and international company in biological pollination and pest control. Our company produces and commercializes beneficial insects and mites used for biological crop protection. Furthermore, Biobest is known for its pioneering role in the bumblebee production for biological pollination.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Biobest produces scouting and monitoring systems, pheromones and biopesticides. Biobest is present in more than 60 countries and employs over 650 people worldwide. For the commercial department we are looking for a Business development manger with experience in International trade and leading management and communication teams. Experience in Crop science and know- how of biological pollination is a real must. You will be responsible for the ongoing development of the commercialization of the Biobest, products and strategies. Next to that you are responsible for the development of marketing instruments at group level.

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 product, 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 (internationally) 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 Paul van Voorst.