International Business Development Manager(Europe)

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 2 June 2025
LOCATION
Remote
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£40,000 / year
CATEGORY
Sales & Marketing
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SKILLS

Business Development Sales Market Strategy Account Management Networking Communication Skills Sales Targets German or Dutch

FULL DESCRIPTION

Summary

Following an exceptional period of growth, PG are seeking to further their expansion with the appointment of a highly motivated and dynamic bilingual Business Development Manager. This exciting position comes with serious career potential, offering strong rewards for your contribution as well as a rare opportunity to join a driven, entrepreneurial company.

Your role primarily will involve forming and managing relationships with international customers, knocking down doors and successfully positioning PG as the partner of choice.

Key Responsibilities/Duties

  • Driving sales and brand development within Europe
  • Identifying and developing new business leads and opportunities
  • Supporting the research, planning and execution of the European market strategy
  • Disrupting established networks and supply chains
  • Gathering market intelligence
  • Account development and management
  • Identifying and engaging with senior contacts
  • Keeping up to date with products and competitors
  • Achieving and exceeding sales targets and KPI’s
  • Attending industry events and travelling to overseas meetings

Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills

  • Able to understand and influence across diverse customers/markets/channels
  • New market entry
  • Determination to succeed even within challenging market conditions
  • Commercially astute
  • Clear and impactful multi-layer communication and presentation skills
  • Strong business development and networking abilities
  • Ability to brand build as well as commodity trade
  • Demonstrate a blend of entrepreneurial and process driven mentalities
  • Team player as well as motivated individual operator
  • Driven, resourceful, proactive, and resilient
  • Fluent in German or Dutch

The Role Business Development

Following an exceptional period of growth, PG are seeking to further their expansion with the appointment of a highly motivated and dynamic bilingual Business Development Manager. This exciting position comes with serious career potential, offering strong rewards for your contribution as well as a rare opportunity to join a driven, entrepreneurial company.

Your role primarily will involve forming and managing relationships with international customers, knocking down doors and successfully positioning PG as the partner of choice.

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

FSB- International Business of the Year (Scotland) 2020

EY- Scale Up winner 2020

SME Scottish Business Awards- Scottish Business of the Year 2019

The industry (industry experience not required)

There has never been a more exciting time in the paper industry; consumer and governmental demand for environmentally friendly packaging, combined with the growth of ecommerce, has seen unprecedented global demand.

Serving a wide range of industries including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, luxury drinks and ecommerce, paper touches every ecosystem. [Employer hidden] connects global markets, buying and selling where opportunity demands.

The Company

An award-winning, fast-growing company, PG combines entrepreneurialism with an established global network. Headquartered in Scotland, we also have offices across the US, Sweden, and Dubai.

Responsibilities:

  • Driving sales and brand development within Europe
  • Identifying and developing new business leads and opportunities
  • Supporting the research, planning and execution of the European market strategy
  • Disrupting established networks and supply chains
  • Gathering market intelligence
  • Account development and management
  • Identifying and engaging with senior contacts
  • Keeping up to date with products and competitors
  • Achieving and exceeding sales targets and KPI’s
  • Attending industry events and travelling to overseas meetings

The Person Business Development Manager:

  • Able to understand and influence across diverse customers/markets/channels
  • New market entry
  • Determination to succeed even within challenging market conditions
  • Commercially astute
  • Clear and impactful multi-layer communication and presentation skills
  • Strong business development and networking abilities
  • Ability to brand build as well as commodity trade
  • Demonstrate a blend of entrepreneurial and process driven mentalities
  • Team player as well as motivated individual operator
  • Driven, resourceful, proactive, and resilient
  • Fluent in German or Dutch

We are an entrepreneurial and service driven organisation, we believe in recruiting at the highest levels and encouraging a culture of collaboration and appreciation. Hiring the right people and treating them well is a key ingredient of our continued and long-term success.

Reference ID: IBDENOV21

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £20,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Work from home

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:

Our Head Office is fully compliant with Government guidelines on safety in the workplace.

Work remotely:

Yes

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