Business Development Manager

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Job Title: Business Development Manager – Internal & Supplier Audit

Location: Netherlands

Work Model: Hybrid, with regular travel for client meetings and company events

Purpose of the Role

As a Business Development Manager, you will play a key role in expanding BSI’s Internal and Supplier Audit services. You’ll focus on building relationships with new clients, understanding their goals, and showing how BSI’s expertise can help strengthen their processes, supply chains, and overall performance. This is a high-impact role where you'll be working with SME's and large multinationals, directly impacting their sustainability goals.

Key Responsibilities

Grow New Business

Proactively connect with new clients, build strong relationships, and maintain a healthy pipeline of opportunities.

Manage Key Accounts

Look after a portfolio of established clients, ensuring they receive excellent service and remain engaged with BSI’s solutions.

Collaborate Across Teams

Work closely with colleagues across different divisions, using their technical and sector insights to create tailored proposals that truly meet client needs.

Use Sales Tools Effectively

Leverage BSI’s CRM (Salesforce) to identify opportunities, keep records up to date, and deliver accurate sales forecasts.

Support Smooth Delivery

Partner with operations teams to ensure that services are delivered on time and according to client expectations, resolving issues swiftly when needed.

Drive Sales Performance

Regularly review your activity, KPIs, and pipeline data to plan future strategies, ensuring you meet both financial and quality targets.

Stay Industry‑Informed

Keep up with market and industry developments and use this knowledge to engage clients with confidence.

Requirements

Experience in business development, particularly in new client acquisition, consultancy, or the Testing, Inspection & Certification (TIC) sector.

A proven track record of independently achieving or exceeding sales targets.

Strong background in consultancy, internal audits, supplier audits, testing, inspection, certification, or related fields.

Solid understanding of supply chains or internal audit practices, with experience managing large accounts.

Fluency in English, with other Western European languages—such as Dutch, German, Swedish, or Danish—considered an advantage.

Willingness to travel when needed.

University degree in Business, Sustainability, or a related discipline.

Candidates from diverse sectors with relevant consultancy, business development, or TIC experience are encouraged to apply.

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About Us

BSI is a business improvement and standards company and for over a century BSI has been recognized for having a positive impact on organizations and society, building trust and enhancing lives.

Today BSI partners with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engages with a 15,000 strong global community of experts, industry and consumer groups, organizations and governments.

Utilizing its extensive expertise in key industry sectors - including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail, and healthcare - BSI delivers on its purpose by helping its clients fulfil theirs.

Living by our core values of Client-Centricity, Agility, and Collaboration, BSI provides organizations with the confidence to grow by partnering with them to tackle society’s critical issues – from climate change to building trust in digital transformation and everything in between - to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world.

BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.