Job Description
Depending on the scope of the role, Business Development Manager is responsible for all or some of the following:
- Finds new business opportunities to position KONE competitively in the market and according to the short and long-term business goals
- Manages complex business development projects, e.g., acquisitions, market entry projects or geographical expansions
- Supports business segments requiring special focus, for example Infra segment, to grow KONE business in that segment
- Ensures cross-BL or organization-wide implementation of growth opportunities, e.g., Advanced People Flow (APF) solutions or People Flow planning and consulting
- Drives a turnaround of low business performance in a specific part of business
- Manages complex, large, and difficult analysis, development, or implementation projects
- Ensures utilization of appropriate methods to support own responsibility area, e.g.
- Business planning
- Competitive analysis
- Marketing and communications planning
- Sales capability development and support
- Operations development
- Competence development
- Business benefits realization
- May lead, direct, and develop a team in own responsibility area
- Maintains strong network within and outside of KONE to share best practices and to understand current and future requirements.