Regional Business Development Manager In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future.
From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.
The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, "courage" and "mutual respect" define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.
Are you passionate about getting close to the commercial agenda and leading strategic projects with direct impact on business?
Do you want to play an important role in an ambitious and international company delivering wellbeing for people and planet?
Are you an inspiring project leader with a drive for focusing on critical and value adding tasks?
Then this role may be the perfect next step in your career.
We offer
A unique role where you will be part of a dedicated team focused on driving business critical projects aimed at improving performance and identifying and untapping growth potential as part of the Group Strategy.
This is a versatile role with exposure to everything from turn around underperforming markets to exploiting our full potential in highly successful markets through optimizing our go-to-market approach.
You will be in a steering wheel of business critical and complex projects aimed at improving regional performance trajectory by leveraging your problem-solving toolbox and great stakeholder management skills.
Your role is international, covering a very diverse region, rich in various cultures and geographies: the North Americas, CEE and APAC.
This role is in the APAC region with a predominant focus on accelerating growth in Australia and turning the tide in Japan.
Intraregional travel is expected.
Key responsibilities
Reporting to the Business Development Director for the region, you will assist the APAC team with developing and sustaining the growth trajectory in AUS / NZ.
This includes engaging in projects independently with many stakeholders, sub-workstreams involved, aimed at improving regional performance trajectory within strategic, commercial and operational excellence.
You will be driving the thorough analytical problem solving for how we get Japan back to growth incl.
identifying the primary growth vectors and assisting the team transitioning into execution mode.
This engagement is a fully-fledged market turn-around and requires diligent and persistent methodological engagement modus together with the business owners.
Other key tasks will be to:
Assist the Business Development Director and Regional EVP in identifying pockets of opportunities through in-depth analysis and by applying a hypothesis driven approach to problem solving.
Be part of facilitating the regional business cycle, templates, and operationalisation strategic priorities into meaningful and actionable priorities.
Assist the APAC management team and region with analytical-, problem solving- and strategic deliveries to identify areas of improvement, propose projects to be prioritised and play a key role in making them alive.
Engage with Global commercial excellence and Group strategy to drive, adopt and develop global best practices.
Who we are looking for
The ideal candidate will have a relevant degree, such as economics or business combined with a minimum of 3-4 years of experience working with a top Management Consulting company and/or from an in-house strategy/business development unit in a larger company.
Experience from working within a consumer-oriented business (e.g., FMCG, retail, branded consumer goods etc.)
and with M&A is considered an advantage.
You have excellent communication skills and enjoy hosting workshops, engaging and motivating people and getting everyone together to create something better than what we can do on our own.
Furthermore, you:
Are passionate about creating results, and you believe in an appreciative approach in the execution of change.
Believe in authenticity and in recognising and respecting others for who they are while having a strong voice of your own.
Possess a sophisticated problem-solving toolbox and profound analytical capacity.
Are tech-savvy with excellent skills in PowerPoint and Excel, ensuring top quality deliverables.
Are fluent in written and spoken English.
Your opportunities
You will work alongside experienced and passionate colleagues – in a setting where knowledge is shared, and responsibility is given to those who can and will.
Our team is characterised by an informal tone, strong feedback culture, social events, and respect for each other both as team players and as individuals.
We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible.
We will review applications and conduct interviews on an on-going basis, so don't wait to apply.
Equal Opportunity Employer VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment.
To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.
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