Hybrid/Remote Benelux Nutraceuticals Biz Dev Hunter

Hartmann Young; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hartmann Young is seeking a commercially driven Business Development Manager for the Benelux region. This true hunter role focuses on accelerating new customer acquisition across the Netherlands initially, with potential expansion into Benelux and Northern Europe.

You will target nutraceutical, functional food and sports nutrition brands, building relationships with founders and senior stakeholders and translating needs into development and manufacturing opportunities across European sites.

Qualifications

• Proven new‑business sales experience within nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, functional food, sports nutrition or a closely related industry.
• Hunter mentality: resilient, proactive and outbound.
• Engage credibly with commercial and technical stakeholders.
• Commercially sharp, technically curious and confident discussing product innovation.
• Comfortable navigating longer, development‑led CDMO sales cycles.
• Entrepreneurial, self‑driven, ambitious and low ego.
• Collaborative and comfortable across sites, functions and countries.
• Experience using HubSpot or a comparable CRM would be beneficial.
• Fluent Dutch and English.
• Based in the Netherlands, or able to operate effectively in a hybrid/remote role with significant regional travel.
• Willingness to spend regular time at production sites to understand capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify, approach and win new customers across the Netherlands and wider Benelux region.
• Build a balanced pipeline of larger strategic accounts and smaller, high-potential growth brands.
• Open doors with founders, CEOs, product developers, procurement teams and other senior decision‑makers.
• Understand formulations, formats, claims, market trends and customer product ambitions.
• Translate customer requirements into clear development and manufacturing opportunities for European sites.
• Act as the bridge between customers, R&D, product development, operations and commercial teams.
• Partner with the wider European sales organisation on cross‑site and multi‑format opportunities.
• Maintain a structured, high‑quality pipeline and handover process through HubSpot CRM.
• Identify events, marketing initiatives and other opportunities to accelerate regional growth.
• Travel regularly across the Netherlands and to European production and commercial sites.

Skills

New-business sales

Hunter mentality

Stakeholder engagement

CRM experience

Dutch language

English language

Travel flexible

HubSpot

Tools

HubSpot CRM

Job description

Hartmann Young is seeking a commercially driven Business Development Manager for the Benelux region. This true hunter role focuses on accelerating new customer acquisition across the Netherlands initially, with potential expansion into Benelux and Northern Europe.

You will target nutraceutical, functional food and sports nutrition brands, building relationships with founders and senior stakeholders and translating needs into development and manufacturing opportunities across European sites.