Junior Business Development & Sales Manager – Smart Energy Startup
GreenPocket GmbH
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Köln • Germany
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About the role
- You will work directly with the CEO on the strategic direction of GreenPocket.
- Drawing on your broad interests, you will identify market-relevant key elements over several months to acquire new direct customers from a specific segment (e.g., trade/retail, municipalities, property management).
- From your insights you will derive concrete action items and proactively engage in initial conversations with potential customers.
- You will welcome the challenge of regularly reviewing new or updated legal requirements (including energy efficiency regulations) and assessing their impact on the company.
- You are passionate about entrepreneurship and interested in exploring growth potential in new markets.
- Market and competitive analyses are exactly your thing.
- You enjoy developing go-to-market concepts, business models for corporate customers, and innovations; you create Ideal Customer Profiles and are willing to take creative approaches.
- You independently drive your market-relevant strategic projects but know exactly when to involve internal stakeholders such as Sales, Product Management, Development, and Controlling, and you also engage with external service providers.
- You demonstrate your creative skills to us when developing marketing campaigns and customer acquisition strategies.
- You discuss all your results directly with the CEO.
Requirements
- You have successfully completed a degree in business administration, economics, or another management-focused program, or you hold a comparable qualification that convinces us.
- You are a smart thinker who understands interrelationships and can analyze them quickly.
- Ideally, you have already gained initial experience in business development at a software company, preferably in a startup or consulting environment.
- It is desirable that you are interested in energy efficiency and AI topics or already have experience in this area.
- With your very good PowerPoint skills you engage others with your presentations, and you are also very confident in Excel.
- With your very good German and English skills, you are comfortable in any conversation with potential customers.
Benefits
- Close collaboration with the CEO and the sales team
- A permanent employment contract with the opportunity to help shape the green startup scene
- Startup atmosphere with plenty of creative freedom, flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths
- Flexible working hours and the option to work from home
- Take Your GreenDay! Step away from the daily routine and dedicate one day per month entirely to your own ideas
- Regular team events and foosball breaks with motivated and warm colleagues
- Unlimited coffee and water supplies and regular fresh fruit
- Located in an area with excellent cultural, sports and transport links
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business developmentmarket analysiscompetitive analysisgo-to-market strategycustomer acquisitionbusiness model developmentenergy efficiencyartificial intelligencepresentation skillsdata analysis
Soft Skills
strategic thinkingcreativitycommunicationcollaborationanalytical skillsentrepreneurial mindsetproactive engagementstakeholder managementadaptabilityproblem-solving