Business Manager

You love people, technology, business, and you feel the need to connect. Welcome at Connect :-: Ways.

IMAGINE being able to develop yourself not only on a professional level but even more on a personal level. Enabling yourself to use your imagination once again. Rather it is finding new challenging (international) projects, recruiting new colleagues, or positioning yourself at schools and universities. Connect :-: Ways will stimulate you in choosing your best Ways.

Business management? What’s that?

As a business manager at Connect :-: Ways you are the linking pin within our ecosystem. This ecosystem contains international clients & prospects within machine building (but also automotive, hi-tech, energy, material handling, medical industry, food and packaging). This also contains a growing network of possible candidates that are interesting to work with at Connect :-: Ways, and finally the schools and universities.

Your responsibilities

You will be responsible for building, retaining, and facilitating a network of clients within the international technology sector. You get energy from getting in touch with new prospects and creating a strategic dialogue with them. This will result in client requests, and you will help them with the solutions. You are driven to convert every opportunity into a success. Does the client need capacity on a temporary base? Do they need knowledge in the form of consultancy? Or do they need a temporary solution? You will help the client finding the most optimal ways.

From out your client & prospect requests, you are able to provide them with capacity or knowledge from your own created network of highly qualified engineers. You like to be visible at schools and universities, but also you get energy from searching for candidates on online platforms. Sometimes this takes hours to find the perfect candidate, but you don’t stop till you have found the perfect match! Don’t forget, it’s an honor that a candidate shows interest in Connect :-: Ways! Even though you talk to a lot of people, every candidate deserves time, attention and the full Connect :-: Ways experience!

Great! You are successful! Now what? Growth!

You have built your own ecosystem of clients, prospects, connectors, candidates and strategic partners. You have built a team of driven engineers that like to connect with each other on deeper levels. We like to see you get energy of facilitating the growth of this ecosystem. After welcoming your first 5 colleagues you will be fully operational as business manager. You challenge yourself to build out this team to a full operational circle of experts and it is key to help them in their personal development. At that point you need to transfer your acquired knowledge to your own new colleague. A new hired business manager, and the growth of your team will be exponential. You will get the chance to set up and form your own circle at Connect :-: Ways.

You are UNIQUE as a person. During your life, you have grown a lot and you have developed lots of skills. Do you recognize these skills?

  • Taking ownership
  • Flexibility
  • Result driven & ambitious
  • Curiosity
  • Emphatic
  • Critical thinker
  • Problem solver

Do you recognize these (or a part of these) competences?

  • Bachelor and/or Master degree in Business Administration, International Business, Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical, Mechatronics or Automation (or equivalent in working experience)
  • You are a hard worker, and don’t mind to put in the hours to learn
  • An understanding of business administration
  • Back office experience. You run your own business. Administrating, billing, validating hours etc. is part of the deal. Don’t worry! If you are not experienced, we will teach you!
  • We help YOU in setting your goals offering a personal development program that consists:
  • One on one insights in the world of technology and the role of business manager;
  • The planning of a personal growth path with an experienced personal coach;
  • A bucket list, consisting of both personal dreams as professional dreams you have.

Our mission as your employer will be FACILITATING your growth along your path of life.

Conditions that you can select:

  • An energy driven organization
  • A passion-driven organization
  • Experiencing organic networks
  • A unique business model based on holacracy
  • Long term relationships & a deep belief of purpose
  • 1 on 1 coaching
  • Mentorship supported by our experienced team
  • Room for own initiative
  • Salary
  • Holiday allowance
  • Transparency
  • Bonusses and/or incentives based on performance
  • Pension budget
  • Phone use compensation

Are you smiling after reading this? Good! Let’s connect and talk BUSINESS!!