🔥 We challenge you!
Water scarcity is rapidly increasing, already 4 billion people face water scarcity. At the same time, 97% of all water is seawater. Desalination technology is nothing new, but it’s expensive, fossil-fuel intensive and difficult to use.
The need for a sustainable, efficient, independent yet affordable and easy-to-use solar desalination solutions is crystal clear. That’s what Elemental Water Makers offers since 2012. With our proven technology and international track record, we are growing our business. To accelerate our impact to provide clean water using the sea & sun, we need your help.
Are you looking for a career and become part of a movement that you are proud of? Will you join us solving water scarcity, using the sea, sun, earth & wind?
What do you do? Generate access to sustainable water.
As Business Developer, your main area of focus will be to grow our business by engaging with new leads and follow-up with existing leads with the aim of realizing sales of our water technology. This can be anything from high-end resorts in the Caribbean, private property development in Middle America, water kiosks in Asia and NGO’s active in Africa. This puts you in a crucial position for the growth of our organization. Products need people. Establishing trust and educating the potential users of our technology is a big part of how to engage. Your role involves maintaining and improving potential customer relation, preparing and delivering proposals to the clients (digitally by mails, phone-calls, meetings), having researched/confirmed their business and requirements. This requires creativity, perseverance as well as patience.
You will work on follow-up activities of the sales efforts, assisted by a CRM. You closely work with our managing director to determine focus of the sales efforts and should feel comfortable presenting to various audiences. One of the possible tasks is maintaining and expanding the global sales/distribution channels, depending on your expertise and experience. Your position could involve sales trips overseas to get in touch with the clients, understand the local market and develop local partnerships.
👉🏼 You are
An experienced & committed hero. Our ideal new team-member has:
• An academic degree and a proven background of over 2 years in B2B business development.
• A proven track record in oversea business-to-business sales & closing deals and strong persuasion skills are required, whilst not forgetting to strategically analyze and most importantly, listen to the clients.
• Due to relatively long sales cycles & more complex DMU, strong organizing skills, perseverance, patience and creativity are essential.
• You should be able to monitor and discuss your own performance.
• You have the ability to turn ideas into actions.
• You have a good understanding of customer needs, value propositions and the financial aspects of a business case.
• A strong desire to understand what Elemental Water Makers does as a business, including the technical aspects.
• Able to quickly develop knowledge of what our customers want and how they want it.
• You’re passionate about global possibilities, changing the world and improving the built environment.
• You understand differences in culture and approach on islands/remote areas.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and being able to cold call potential clients with confidence are key.
• You must be fluent in spoken and written English and preferably one other foreign language (French, Spanish or Portuguese) and be able to communicate on different levels and with different audiences.
• Positive energy and cultural sensitivity are essential.
🏦 What do you get in return?
Purpose & possibility to grow together.
Professional and motivated employees are the cornerstone of our organization. They are essential in helping us achieve our goal to secure fresh water today, without limiting tomorrow. We are a small passionate international team of several engineers with a practical approach to get stuff done. We offer constant guidance and learning, driven by our values. As key player in the field of desalination powered by renewable energy, we are able to kickstart you into this exciting field. We offer a base salary complemented with a performance bonus scheme. Our office is located in the harbor in Scheveningen, where we also have our production facilities. This makes (water) sports such as surfing and kite-surfing in between calls a real possibility.
Do you think you have what it takes to join us in solving fresh water scarcity?
Become a water maker. The full-time position is available on short notice.
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