Account Manager

You are the link between the customer and Flanders Make. Our customers are innovative companies from the manufacturing industry in Flanders. You help to expand our customer base and maintain excellent contacts with existing customers and partners.

In line with the Flanders Make strategy, you look proactively for new opportunities to deploy our technological research and infrastructure for the benefit of our customers. You listen to the ambitions and vision of our customers and identify commercial opportunities that you further develop into successful projects.

By building strong customer relationships at various levels, you are successful in achieving turnover and high customer satisfaction. You report to the Chief Valorisation Officer. You work together with 700+ Flanders Make experts.

You must travel regularly (mainly in Flanders) and work site-independently.

Are you the right woman or man with a first experience as Account Manager or Business Development Manager within a B2B environment?

You also have:

• A Master's degree in economic or technological sciences (TEW (Applied Economic Sciences), Commercial Engineer, Engineer, etc.);
• The ability to find your way with ease in complex organisations with a diverse stakeholder landscape.
• Experience with subsidised innovation projects, CRM and marketing automation systems is a plus.

You are:

• Born for sales and technology;
• Passionate about innovation;
• A networker who builds lasting relationships;
• An initiator who thinks in terms of challenges and opportunities;
• Proactive, hands-on;
• Fluent in Dutch and have a good knowledge of English;
• A team player, open-minded, with a good sense of humour.

We offer you opportunities to help expand Flanders Make's operations. You will join a young international team of top researchers in a growing strategic research centre. Here, you will work intensively together with Flemish universities and industrial innovation leaders on an international level.

Flanders Make offers you a competitive salary with fringe benefits.