Jr Business Development Officer

Junior Business Development Officer

SolarPower Europe is a member-led association representing the European solar PV sector. SolarPower Europe’s aim is to ensure that more energy is generated by solar than any other energy source by 2030 and lead our members to make solar the core of a smart, sustainable and inclusive energy system.

We are currently looking for a talented Junior Business Development Officer to contribute to increase the revenue generation of our organization.

Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to membership sales (from A-Z, from identifying a prospect to closing a deal)
• Contribute to sponsorship sales of our own events
• Contribute to sales of potential other products services (e.g. ads in our reports)
• Carry out market research to identify new sales opportunities
• Support with sponsorships implementation
• Build strong relationships with our members and event sponsors
• Establish a collaboration with the marketing team for sales activities
• Carry out some administrative tasks to support events and sales activities
• Use our CRM system to keep track of sales evolution

Requirements and skills:

• Ability to work efficiently in a team and independently on projects
• Ability to work with demanding deadlines, high pace environment and under pressure to deliver targets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (additional languages are a plus)
• 1-2 year experience in a business development, direct sales, client facing roles (internships count as well)
• Ability to multitask and take initiative
• Experience in client relationship management and networking (an advantage)
• A demonstrated ability in business-to-business (B2B) sales (an advantage)
• You are familiar with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word
• Experience with a CRM tool (an advantage)
• Experience working with an association membership and/or events sponsorship is a plus (an advantage)

We are offering a full-time position, that would start as soon as possible. This position will be directly reporting to the Director of Business Development.

A CV (maximum 2 pages) and a one-page motivation letter (including your availability) should be sent to recruitment@solarpowereurope.org until COB 9th of August 2024 quoting “Junior Business Development Officer” in the subject line.

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