Senior Business Development Manager – Marketplace & Growth

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• You identify potential for further development and optimization at both national and international levels, evaluating the profitability and success of projects based on your defined KPIs.

• You continuously keep yourself updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and the competitive landscape to proactively identify areas for innovation and significantly contribute to the scalable development of our marketplace business.

• You take full responsibility for cross-functional business projects and actively drive them forward within an international team.

• You develop new ideas based on internal and external data, gather, assess, and consolidate input from various teams while actively seeking feedback.

• You promote strong cross-departmental collaboration, bringing together various stakeholders such as Tech & Product, Marketing, Customer Service, and Legal to align on a shared vision and approach.

• You actively utilize AI tools and automation solutions (e.g., LLMs, No-/Low-Code tools) as work instruments to make analyses, business cases, and project work more efficient – proactively identifying potential to scale these approaches at the team level.

• You critically evaluate the use of AI solutions and automation approaches in the context of our business processes – recognizing where AI creates real value and where it does not, and systematically incorporating this assessment into project decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• You have several years of experience in strategic project management, business development, or consulting.

• You have successfully completed your university studies (M.Sc./M.A.) with a focus on Business Administration, International Management, International Business, or a related field.

• You possess solid experience in market analysis, business case development, and change management.

• You have strong analytical and conceptual skills to develop innovative ideas and strategically plan.

• You demonstrate a confident handling of AI tools (e.g., language models, automation tools) and use them independently to achieve better results more quickly – for you, AI is an essential work tool, not just a nice-to-have.

• You have a pronounced growth mindset and strive for scalable, impactful solutions.

• You are a strong communicator, both in writing and verbally, and can communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels of management.

• You are fluent in German (at least C1) and English (at least C1) and enjoy working in an international team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Create your own work-life: Decide flexibly whether you want to work remotely (within Germany) or at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or Berlin!

• Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios: You receive top conditions for fitness, swimming, yoga, and much more through us.

• Mental Well-Being: We support you on your Well-Being Journey with special offerings such as Instahelp, the digital platform for psychological online counseling.

• Vacation & Sabbatical: Enjoy 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical once you have been part of the team for a certain period.

• Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Purchase vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances!

• Deutschlandticket: We subsidize your subscription for greater mobility.

• Employee discount: You receive a monthly voucher for Kaufland.de.

• Free choice of hardware: Whether Mac or Lenovo, you have the choice with us.

• Boost for your growth: Benefit from our online language learning offerings, diverse in-house training sessions, and our automated 360-degree feedback.