About the Role
As a Business Development Manager, you will identify new business opportunities, win strategic partners, and manage the entire process from market analysis to successful collaboration. You will actively approach potential business partners, recognize new market opportunities, and win strong brands for a dynamically growing e-commerce service agency. This role is crucial for expanding the product portfolio by acquiring new brands and manufacturers, building strategic partnerships, and actively shaping sustainable growth.
Responsibilities
- Identify new brands, manufacturers, suppliers, and assortments with potential for e-commerce business.
- Research markets, products, competitors, and trends, and identify new growth potentials.
- Actively approach potential business partners and build and develop new business relationships.
- Independently manage your new business pipeline, from research and follow-ups to successful contract conclusion.
- Evaluate revenue, margin, and assortment potentials and create well-founded decision-making bases.
- Conduct negotiations on conditions and contracts with new partners and shape economically attractive framework conditions.
- Support new partnerships until successful handover to internal departments and assist with the integration of new assortments.
Requirements
- Successfully completed university degree, ideally with an economic focus.
- Initial professional experience in business development, sales, key account management, or a comparable commercial position.
- Affinity for the e-commerce environment or category management is ideal.
- Enjoy identifying new business opportunities, actively approaching potential partners, and successfully concluding discussions.
- Analytical thinking skills and confident handling of numbers to evaluate economic potentials.
- Good knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets and experience in creating simple business cases.
- Strong communication skills, negotiation skills, and a convincing demeanor towards external partners and internal stakeholders.
- Structured, independent work style and the ability to prioritize and consistently follow up on multiple topics simultaneously.
- Ambitious personality with high self-motivation and the desire to take responsibility in a dynamic e-commerce environment.
- Fluent German and very good English language skills.
Skills
- Business Development
- Market Analysis
- Partner Acquisition
- Pipeline Management
- Business Cases
- Negotiation
- Project Coordination
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- Communication
- Negotiation Skills
- Analytical Thinking
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 40-hour week
- Flexible working hours
Experience Level
- Entry-level professional experience
Education Level
- University degree
Salary/Compensations
- Performance-related fixed salary
Benefits
- Attractive compensation
- Flexible working model with 2 home office days
- Permanent employment contract
- 30 vacation days
- Professional development support
- Modern office in Berlin Lichtenberg
- Subsidized job ticket or free parking
- Flat hierarchies
- Open communication
- Regular team and company events
- Free drinks and fresh fruit
- Attractive employee discounts
- Corporate Benefits
About the Company
- A dynamically growing e-commerce service agency in Berlin.
- One of the most successful Amazon sellers in Germany.
- Sells thousands of products.
- Economically successful and future-proof company.
