Business Development Executive (m/w/d) Food-Retail

Role Overview

As a Business Development Executive, you will identify and implement new business opportunities in the food retail area, develop customer-centric solutions, and build trust-based partnerships with customers. You will represent the company at conferences, manage sales activities, and negotiate contracts. You will work in a structured and solution-oriented manner, with a strong team in the background. You will be enthusiastic about exchanging with customers and continuously expanding your knowledge.

What You Will Do

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include identifying promising market segments and target groups, analyzing customer business strategies, recognizing their needs, and placing innovative solutions from our portfolio to promote their growth. You will also represent our company at conferences, establish new contacts, and deepen existing relationships. You will manage sales activities, keep track of customer interactions, and negotiate contracts.

Why It Might Be a Fit

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a hunter mentality and success will, experience in the food industry, and retail expertise. You will need to be a self-starter with team spirit, analytical and practical, and customer-focused. You will also need to be flexible and mobile, with very good German and English language skills.

Requirements

• Hunter mentality and success will
• Experience in the food industry (at least 5 years)
• Retail expertise (interest in or experience with retail technologies such as RFID, self-check-out, shrinkage management, or retail analytics)
• Self-starter with team spirit
• Analytical and practical
• Customer focus and curiosity
• Very good German and English language skills

Benefits

• Motivated team
• Structured onboarding and familiarization with the various solutions and processes
• Short decision-making paths
• Flexible working arrangement
• 30 days of vacation
• Attractive company car policy
• Discounts at numerous partners from the fitness, fashion, travel, etc. sectors
• Training library with specialized course offerings