Business Development and Sales Reference number: 2511

Job description

Business Development and Sales, with focus on digitalization and Software solutions.

Responsibilities/Tasks
- Market detection and analysis for the different digitalization offerings SMO has.
- Develop customer contacts; build-up relevant contacts at different public and private transport customers.
- Detect customer needs and link them to the possibilities SMO can offer.
- Build up and maintain good relationship with SMO-HQ who is provider of different portfolio elements.
- Manage (potential) business partners to realize successful offerings.
- Communicate and collaborate with the different Business Units of SMO BeLux to support them with the cybersecurity sales.
- Be up-to-date with our portfolio elements and enable the internal SMO BeLux colleagues on the possibilities
- Develop a multi-year opportunity pipeline with short, mid- and longterm goals to achieve
- Take the lead in the creation of successful offers toward our customers (answering on the real needs of the customer, taking into account the SMO strategic directions/priorities, ensuring long term profitable business)
- Turn winning proposals into successful business transaction.

Competences and experience
- Languages: good practice in Dutch, French and English is mandatory
- Prefered education level: master in information technology or engineering
- Experience: experience in pure IT portfolio development and sales transactions is an advantage
- Experience in CAPEX (f.e. licenses, investments, projects,…) or OPEX (Maas, Cloud, SAAS, …) oriented sales transaction is an advantage
- Getting energy from listening and providing solutions and services to our customers is a must
- Partnership orientation towards our customers in the sales attitude is a differentiator
- Experience in governemantal procedures is also an asset


Soft skills
- Highly interested in digitalization and cybersecurity topics.
- Excellent communication skills. likes to listen, understand, convince, and negotiate.
- Excellent presentation skills. Positive and proactive personality with a critical and analytical mindset
- High self-motivational drive
- Able to easily create connections with new stakeholders
- Stress resistance to cope with deadlines for offer phases
- Can cope with long cycle times before first successes
- Output oriented, can structure tasks to come to a concrete offer by collaborating with different stakeholders