Business Development Manager

Serviceplan Group Belux; Brussel; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real ownership from day one

Exposure to agency leadership

International network

Job summary

Plan.Net Belgium is seeking a growth strategist to drive transformation for clients at the intersection of business consulting, technology and creativity. You will develop a structured pipeline, identify opportunities where business ambition meets data and AI, and lead consultative conversations with marketing, digital and IT leaders.

Reporting to the Managing Partner, you will shape winning proposals with our teams, build a personal portfolio as a profit centre, and raise Plan.Net’s presence in

Qualifications

• Hunter mindset with ability to create opportunities.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with ownership and speed.
• Fluent French and Dutch plus professional English.

Responsibilities

• Open doors with the right clients and pursue opportunities where business ambition meets tech and AI complexity.
• Lead consultative conversations with marketing, digital and IT decision-makers; understand challenges before proposing solutions.
• Shape winning proposals with consulting, tech and creative teams, ensuring both commercial sharpness and technical soundness.
• Build your portfolio and run it as a profit centre: pipeline, margins and client relationships.
• Be visible in the Belgian digital and tech ecosystem through events, partner networks and communities to turn presence into pipeline.
• Feed strategy with market insights to sharpen CX, CRM, data and AI propositions.

Skills

Hunter mindset

Entrepreneurial

Fluent French

Dutch

Professional English

Job description

Plan.Net Belgium sits at the intersection of business consulting, technology and creativity. We help brands be relevant and grow by changing how marketing works — connecting strategy, CRM platforms, data, AI and execution into customer experiences that actually perform.

We are part of the Plan.Net Group and the Serviceplan Group, Europe's largest independent, partner-led agency group, with over 6,500 experts across the House of Communication. That gives us international scale, deep tech partnerships (Adobe, Salesforce, and our own engineering hub) and an AI-forward culture while staying entrepreneurial, close and human. In the age of AI, that matters more, not less.

The role

You join at a pivotal moment. Our Growth Strategy is clear: focus on clients where we create real transformation impact, build a structured pipeline engine, and shift from pushing services to creating opportunities through consultative conversations. Your job is to make that happen on the ground.

You report directly to the Managing Partner, with a high degree of autonomy from day one. Concretely, you will:

• Open doors with the right clients — identifying, qualifying and pursuing opportunities where business ambition meets tech, data and AI complexity.
• Lead consultative conversations with marketing, digital and IT decision-makers: understanding their challenges before proposing anything. We solve problems, we don't brief them.
• Shape winning proposals together with our consulting, tech and creative teams — commercially sharp and technically sound.
• Build your own portfolio and progressively run it as a profit centre: pipeline, margins, client relationships, growth.
• Be visible in the Belgian digital and tech ecosystem — events, partner networks, communities — and turn presence into pipeline.
• Feed our strategy with what you see in the market, and help sharpen our propositions around CX, CRM, data and AI.

You will work closely with the Managing Partners and see how the agency is actually run positioning, P&L, team, international group dynamics. In a partner-led group, real performance opens real doors over time.

Who you are

• You have a hunter mindset: you enjoy creating opportunities, not just managing them, and you are energised (not intimidated) by a blank pipeline.
• You are entrepreneurial: you want ownership, you move fast, and you believe building beats overthinking.
• You speak fluent French and Dutch, plus professional English.
• Above all: you are in it to build something, not just to hit a number.

What we offer

• Real ownership from day one, and a clear growth path within a partner-led group.
• Direct exposure to agency leadership and to the international Plan.Net and Serviceplan network.
• A competitive package
• A close, human team that makes hard things feel light — and cares about your growth as much as the business's.

Plan.Net Belgium is part of the Serviceplan Group, House of Communication. We hire on talent, drive and character — nothing else.