WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU!
To support the expansion of our continuously growing business activities in Italy, we are looking for a highly motivated new team member to join us full-time. Join the Brüning Group as a Junior Business Development Manager (m/f/d) Italy and become part of our team in Bremen.Do you live in Bremen, speak Italian at a business-fluent level, have solid experience in sales and/or procurement, and have built your expertise within the alternative fuel industry? Are you results-driven and motivated to achieve outstanding performance? Then we would love to hear from you!
Your mission
- Develop new business opportunities in Italy
- Build, manage, and maintain existing customer relationships with waste to energy producers, brokers, and logistics service providers
- Identify customer needs and develop suitable business concepts
- Coordinate national and international material flows in line with customer and market requirements
- Negotiate trading agreements and successfully close contracts
- Establish strategic partnerships with waste producers across Italy
- Achieve sales and procurement targets in coordination with management
- Monitor market trends in the waste management, recycling, and energy sectors
- Analyze pricing structures, logistics costs, and regulatory impacts on the profitability of individual business cases
- Stay informed about current Italian and EU waste regulations (e.g., permits and transboundary waste shipment regulations)
- Ensure all trading activities comply with applicable environmental and legal requirements
- Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and face-to-face customer meetings
- Work closely with internal departments such as Trading, Legal, Operations, and Finance.
- Regular travel to production facilities in Italy is an essential part of the role
Your profile
- You have proven experience in business development, sales or procurement, ideally within the waste management, recycling, energy or related industries.
- You have gained experience in the international logistics sector.
- You have a flexible, independent, and structured way of working, combined with strong analytical skills and a customer-focused mindset.
- You are communicative, enjoy working as part of a team, and maintain open and transparent relationships with international colleagues and managers.
- You can demonstrate a successful track record in commercial negotiations, including pricing, contract terms, and contract closing.
- You possess strong market analysis and commercial evaluation skills, including the assessment of pricing structures, logistics costs, market trends, and the profitability of individual business cases.
- You have excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to develop long-term partnerships with customers, suppliers, brokers, and logistics providers.
- You have outstanding communication and negotiation skills and are confident representing the company in customer meetings, industry events, and conferences.
- You are fluent in Italian and English, German language is a plus.
- You are willing to travel frequently to production facilities as well as customer and supplier locations in Italy and can comfortably combine these appointments with your personal commitments.
This is what you can expect
- Permanent employment contract with an attractive fixed salary
- Flat hierarchies within a highly motivated and supportive team
- Regular exchange of feedback and expectations
- Flexible working hours
- Subsidized lunch
- Company events such as summer parties, Christmas celebrations, and various team events, as well as additional work-life integration benefits
- Benefits and company pension scheme
- A wide range of opportunities for professional and personal development