Business Developer Sustainability

**Do you love connecting with people? Does reaching sales targets energize you? Are you passionate about sustainability? Are you looking for a job in a dynamic, international, and customer-oriented environment? Let’s talk**
**Business Developer Sustainability**
**Vlerick Business School is a **triple-accredited,** **top-ranked** **international business school at the heart of Europe **- with a solid scientific foundation that provides the backbone for knowledge with lasting impact. We strive to make coming to Vlerick feel like a transformative experience that ignites the entrepreneurial leadership fire. In doing so, we help form **positive change-makers** ready to challenge the status quo and make things happen.

Vlerick is a school, but we run it as a company, aligned with the high standards we foster in our different programmes. We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven **business developer eager to enlarge the School’s impact**.

**The job**
- Identify new leads, create a pipeline of prospects, organise sales visits, negotiate and conclude large long-term partnerships, as well as other innovative relationships, while overseeing consistent pricing and creating value for all parties.
- Develop funding to create a viable Vlerick Centre for Sustainability.
- Develop long-term collaborations with companies and strengthen existing relationships with corporate partners.
- Gain access to local relevant networks focusing on sustainability from a B2B sales perspective and represent Vlerick Business School at network events.
- Develop a comprehensive business development plan and B2B sales strategy to tap into the market opportunity for research, networking, and customised executive education in sustainability.
- Act as an interface between the School and the corporate world, feeding back how Vlerick Business School can add value in sustainability, whether in research for business, executive education, recruitment, or other areas.
- Work in close collaboration with colleagues from the Advancement Office, Executive Education (customised programmes), and our professors.
- Report to a senior partner of the School responsible for Sustainability.

**You**
- Can develop strategic, proactive relationships with potential corporate partners.
- Have strong sales capabilities; you are a true hunter.
- Have extensive experience with relationship management.
- Have developed firm perseverance and a natural commercial awareness.
- Are driven, goal-oriented and focused on achieving high targets.
- Have developed an extensive and relevant network providing you with access at the executive board level.
- Combine a robust sales-driven approach with being a team player willing to share information and open doors for your colleagues.
- Have a master’s degree and minimum five years of relevant business experience.
- Understand complex B2B sales and can navigate decision-making units.
- Have strong interpersonal skills capable of building and maintaining relationships.
- Understand the importance of research and can help strengthen the bridge between the academic and the business world.
- Are a strong communicator in English. Knowledge of Dutch is a plus.
- Will be based on our campus in Ghent, Brussels, or Leuven in combination with your home office.

**#ProudtobeVlerick**
- Autonomy and responsibility in a challenging work environment.
- A dynamic, open, and international company culture.
- Opportunities for professional and personal growth, including a training budget & a LinkedIn Learning account.
- A team of enthusiastic, driven colleagues, passionate about learning.
- Flexibility: 30+ holiday days, working from home, a flexible benefits system, etc.
- Meal vouchers, a hospitalization insurance, a group insurance, and a mobility budget are also part of your package.
- You’ll have a real impact and inspire people to live, learn and leap

**Take the leap and join us