Crops Business Development Director
Location: BelgiumSIRE 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 Antwerpen Belgium.
This client operates in the Agriculture business and is looking for an international, experienced Business Development Director who has experience in the field. You will be internationally traveling 40-50% of the time.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
As Business Development Director, you will have 7 direct reports. To guide them properly, you have extensive management experience and have a way with people. The Stage Gate method would be a strong plus. Besides this, of course, you still have core business to attend to. With your decade of experience in project management, marketing or business development, you know how to push the product and pull customers. You lead from the front, are flexible and a strong negotiator.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Being present on the plant near Antwerp while also travelling internationally 50% of the time
• Leading the product management and communication teams
• Coordinating value propositions
• Aligning product offering with corporate strategy
• Market intelligence
• Product and client visibility
• Developing marketing instruments at group level for subsidiaries across the globe
REQUIREMENTS
• MSc in Plant Sciences, Bio-engineering or similar
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
• Strong project management skills, Stage-Gate is a plus
• Flexible in managing teams and external service providers
• Experienced in B2B marketing, including social media
• Fluent English, Dutch a strong plus, other languages are an asset
Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Anastasia de Vries.
