Director, Business Development
At a glance
Director-level Business Development role at Flextronics. Japan, Ibaraki · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Qualify prospective customers, build relationships, and deliver pipeline and booking outcomes against individual and team goals
- Create strategic alliances by understanding customers’ plans, product direction, and expansion priorities
- Coordinate with business development and finance colleagues to keep department spending within budget
- Guide existing accounts through product roadmaps and connect them with Flex solutions across design, manufacturing, logistics, and services
- Support senior leaders with personnel evaluation, hiring, and retention strategies for a capable workforce
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or business
- At least five years of business development experience in the 3PL industry
- You can work with internal teams, executives, and customers to reach mutually beneficial outcomes
- You understand strategic selling and can interpret P&L, balance sheets, and ROI measures
- You can influence senior managers, executives, and important clients
Who this fits
This role suits a senior business development professional who can develop customer relationships while connecting product, manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics solutions. You’ll be based in Ibaraki and report to the GM. The work includes influencing executives and helping with hiring, retention, and personnel evaluation.
From the employer
Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
Job Summary
The “Director, Business Development” will be based in Ibaraki, reporting to GM.
In this role, you will be In-charge of qualifying new customers, developing relationship and business with them, achieving pipeline and bookings results according to assigned unipersonal and team targets.
What a typical day looks like:
- Develop new strategic alliances with key customers.
- Research and recognize customers' business strategy, future product plans, and expansion activities and align Flex resources were mutually beneficial.
- Work closely with the Business Development Team and the Finance Department to control budgets within the department.
- Assist current accounts in the development and execution of product roadmaps and act as a focal point in delivering Flex's solutions which include concept development, industrial design, manufacturing, supply chain/logistics, services hold up and reverse logistics.
- Hold up senior management regarding managing and evaluating key personnel and in terms of talent acquisition to provide further potential to business resources.
- Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce while ensuring the comprehension of cultural nuances and diversity representations
- Represent Flex Ways of Working when interacting with internal & external contacts.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, sciences, or business.
- Typically requires 5 years of Business Development experience to 3PL(3rd Party Logistics) industry
- Ability to work with internal teams and executive management as well as external customers to maximize mutual benefit.
- Knowledge of Strategic Selling techniques.
- Understanding of key financial metrics and capability to read P&L, balance sheets, ROI indicators, taking actions to meet customers’ needs and Flex targets.
- Ability to successfully influence senior level management, executives, and key clients.
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Life Insurance
- PTO
Job Category
Sales - Marketing - Account MgmtRequired Skills:
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