Business Development Manager Food Service

NSF; Diegem; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NSF is seeking a Business Development Manager for Food Service and Retail to grow market share and revenue across Europe, focusing on advisory services and retail audits. Hybrid role based in Diegem, with 50/50 onsite/virtual meetings and up to 30-40% travel.

You will build a strong pipeline, identify new clients, manage relationships and collaborate with marketing to generate leads and campaigns. Fluency in English plus French/Dutch is required.

Qualifications

• Higher degree business oriented preferred.
• Strong experience in business development within Food Industry, Food Ingredients.
• Demonstrated experience in a corporate environment.
• Understanding standards and ability to effectively communicate requirements to all stakeholders.
• Strong sales acumen, hunter mindset.
• Ability to work successfully in a (complex) cross functional environment.
• Proven experience of project management.
• Demonstrate agility to adjust to industry changes and/or direction of the business.
• Knowledge of CRM tools such as Salesforce.
• Experience in a consulting, regulatory, food processing, or hospitality context is preferred.

Responsabilités

• Proactively identifying, targeting and winning new business through hunting activity, including cold calling and networking to build a strong pipeline.
• Researching competitor accounts and converting key clients through relationship development and consultative selling.
• Driving net-new revenue growth by creating opportunities with new relationships and overcoming barriers.
• Supporting and representing NSF at trade shows and industry events to generate leads and opportunities.
• Developing new customers and strategically growing accounts.
• Leading prospect and client meetings onsite and virtually, focusing on new business acquisition.
• Collaborating with internal units to develop customer solutions and ensure project success.
• Developing and executing territory sales plans, pipelines and accurate forecasts.
• Analyzing local market trends and competitor activity; partnering with Marketing on campaigns.
• Building and maintaining strong customer relationships to expand NSF's service offerings.
• Managing territory planning, account mapping and prioritisation for sales effectiveness.
• Demonstrating strong communication, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills across the organisation.

Connaissances

English proficiency

French language

Dutch language

Hunter mindset

Sales persuasion

Cross-functional collaboration

Negotiation skills

Formation

Higher degree business oriented preferred

Outils

Salesforce CRM

Description du poste

Job Description

As Business Development Manager Food Service and Retail, you will be responsible for improving market share of NSFs developing your sales pipeline to ensure generation of new sales revenue. The position will involve focusing on NSFs Food Advisory Services (Regulatory, Technical support, Consulting), and Retail audits business.

Job Description

As Business Development Manager Food Service and Retail, you will be responsible for improving market share of NSFs developing your sales pipeline to ensure generation of new sales revenue. The position will involve focusing on NSFs Food Advisory Services (Regulatory, Technical support, Consulting), and Retail audits business.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identifying, targeting and winning new business through disciplined hunting activity, including cold calling, cold outreach, networking and strategic prospecting to build a strong pipeline of opportunities.
• Researching competitor accounts and successfully converting key clients through relationship development, consultative selling, contract negotiation and tailored service solutions.
• Driving net-new revenue growth by creating opportunities where no existing relationship exists, engaging decision-makers and overcoming barriers to entry.
• Supporting and representing NSF at trade shows, industry events and seminars to generate leads, build market presence and identify new business opportunities.
• Responsible for developing new customers and strategically growing accounts.
• Preparing for and leading prospect and client meetings, both onsite and virtually (50% face-to-face / 50% virtual), with a strong focus on new business acquisition and opportunity progression.
• Collaborating with internal business units to develop compelling customer solutions and ensure successful delivery of strategic projects.
• Developing and executing territory sales plans, pipeline strategies and accurate forecasts to achieve and exceed new business targets.
• Analysing local market trends, competitor activity and customer needs, partnering with Marketing to develop and execute targeted lead generation and demand creation campaigns.
• Building and maintaining strong customer relationships throughout the Territory/ Programme while continuously identifying opportunities to expand NSF's service offerings.
• Demonstrating expertise in territory management, account planning, market mapping and prospect prioritisation to maximise sales effectiveness.
• Displaying exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills with customers, prospects and internal stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.

Hybrid position based in Diegem (Brussels area); expected to travel throughout Europe up to 30-40% of time (car/train/plane) with a focus on BENELUX, and potentially other EU countries

Qualifications

• Higher degree business oriented preferred.
• Strong experience in business development within Food Industry, Food Ingredients
• Demonstrated experience in a corporate environment.
• Understanding standards and ability to effectively communicate requirements to all stakeholders.
• Strong sales acumen, hunter mindset.
• Ability to work successfully in a (complex) cross functional environment.
• Proven experience of project management.
• Demonstrate agility to adjust to industry changes and/or direction of the business.
• Strong English proficiency. Fluent in French and Dutch.
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills.
• Managing forecast accuracy on a regular basis.
• An first experience working in Consulting, Regulatory, Food Processing, or Hospitality is preferred
• Knowledge of the TIC industry is an asset (Testing, Inspection, Certification).
• Experience in the use of CRM Tools, such as Salesforce
• Demonstrated experience in a corporate environment.