Business Development & Venture Builder Circular Economy, CS (m/f/d)

Job Description

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application!

Your Tasks:

• Strategic Development:  You take ownership of identifying and developing new business opportunities with a focus on the circular economy end to end. You lead pilot projects for innovative circular economy business models, scale successful initiatives company-wide, and actively lead go-to-market initiatives from ideation to market introduction.
• Market Research and Analysis: You continuously monitor emerging trends, technologies, and market opportunities to bring cutting-edge solutions to the circular economy business development funnel.
• Partnerships & Stakeholder Management: You establish and maintain strategic partnerships to promote joint projects. You act as a key resource for internal teams and external stakeholders, providing expertise on sustainability, circularity, and best practices.
• Sales & Commercial Development:  You drive hands on revenue growth by identifying, developing, and closing business opportunities in the circular economy space. You build strong customer relationships, translate technical solutions into compelling value propositions, and ensure commercial success through structured pipeline management and market-driven sales strategies.
• Reporting and Communication: You proactively document project outcomes and provide regular updates to stakeholders, including strategic recommendations and lessons learned. You monitor and report progress on initiatives.

Your Profile:

• Qualification: You hold a relevant university degree (e.g. in business administration, industrial engineering, or a related field) with a focus on business development and strategy, and have at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience and Know-How: You enjoy the complexity of looking across sectors, understanding market sizes, market opportunities, and market timing while simultaneously making fast decisions on relevant topics. You thrive in fast-moving environments and are able to adapt quickly. You have a strong understanding of sales dynamics, customer needs, and commercial drivers, as well as a solid understanding of regulatory boundaries and frameworks.
• Personality: You are a strong networker and relationship builder with excellent communication skills. You are an analytical and conceptual strategic thinker with execution mindset. Additionally, you are a fast learner with entrepreneurial driven and strong business sense to seek opportunities.
• Working Style: You thrive in both independent and team-oriented work settings. You have an entrepreneurial spirit, sense of initiative and a strong problem-solving approach. You are project management oriented and capable of not losing the big picture view. You are able to balance an inner drive to deeply understand something with speed.
• Languages: Fluent English is essential and very good German (C1) skills are necessary to flourish in that role. 

We Offer:

• Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
• Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
• WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
• Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
• Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme TELUS. 

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

WEPA Hygieneprodukte GmbH
Frau Kristin Hayn
Rönkhauser Straße 26
59757 Arnsberg-Müschede