**Business Development Manager**
**Fulltime | Milan**
Samsung SDS Italy is a booming company, which can offer an intense experience of professional growth in a young, dynamic context and with a clear and strong vision of strategic and commercial development.
**About us**
**Purpose of the job**
**Who are we looking for?
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We are looking for a high-performing an experienced Business Development Manager to help us meet our customer acquisition and revenue growth targets by keeping Samsung SDS competitive and innovative.
Perform network analysis and design solutions to response to client requirements.
As a Business Development Manager, you will work for business acquisition as well as work closely with sales teams and Country head to support them on technical aspects, and to take part in offer presentations.
**Job requirements**
- Defining the pipeline of potential Customers
- Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and capability reporting
- Identifies the feasibility of pursuing new business opportunities with specific potential clients
- Support "Head Quarter" & "Regional Head Quarter" initiative project and implement business expansion strategy setup for Italy
- Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs
- Provides technical design support for logistics solutions, including data gathering and analysis, process design, lay-out design, costing of the solution, and sensitivity analysis
- Uses optimization modelling and process (re-)design to derive optimum logistics solution, resource level and costs
- Assists in creating solution documents and comprehensive presentations, and supports presenting them to the (potential) customer
- Develops a strong understanding of financial models
- Cooperate with other functions and departments units to formulate and test validity of solutions
- Ensures the smooth handover to Operations at the start of the project implementation phase to its stability
**Profile**
**We are looking for an employee with**:
- **Education & Qualifications**: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Industrial or Mechanical Engineering or similar.
- **Experience**: Relevant working experience in logistics and supply chain, consulting, and/or manufacturing, with mandatory previous roles as Operations & Solutions Designer.
- **Specialist Knowledge & Skills**:
- Warehousing, transport, supply chain design, industrial engineering, manufacturing
- Strong working knowledge of MS office, specifically Excel and PowerPoint
- Successful negotiation skills, with a commercial mindset and a target oriented approach to any issue.
- **Interpersonal & Communication Skills**:
- Able to read, write and speak English fluently
- Able to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team, which reflects in strong engagement/presentation skills
- 'Can-do' mentality and positive attitude and cultural awareness and open minded attitude towards any cultural difference
- An entrepreneur who can work with high degree of autonomy, but also a good team player.
- Solid and Proven network of key contacts for potential customer in the Italian market (in all industries) is a strong plus.
**Benefits**
You will receive:
- a permanent contract
- a competitive compensation package with a bonus structure
- an extended benefit package, including both a wellness programme and a professional and extra professional insurance agreement, for you and your family
**Come join us!
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Work Location: Hybrid remote in 20124 Milano, MI