Job offer

As a Business Development Manager, you are the persistent person who always wins. If sales were easy, they wouldn't need your steadfastness and expertise. As a Business Development Manager you are professional, knowledgeable, enterprising and pragmatic. These are the core values ​​that are very important to us. You keep a close eye on developments and see opportunities. You put your finger on the sore spot and then come up with creative solutions.

What are you going to do?

As an experienced Business Development Manager you get visible energy from advising and supporting our customers. You are responsible for achieving the commercial objectives of Lumen Group. In addition:

• You translate the questions and wishes of clients into suitable solutions. Personal contact is key here.
• Acquire your assignments from existing and new relations.
• Are you a proactive networker and do you enjoy being a discussion partner with directors and senior management? You are used to taking a sector-specific approach.
• Build a large network and enter into a relationship with various trade associations. From there you recognize and capitalize on opportunities with clients.
• You ensure the excellent progress of assignments with existing clients. You ensure good guidance.

The market knowledge you have gained will come in handy here. As a Business Development Manager at Lumen Group, results are very important to you. But entrepreneurship also involves trial and error, making mistakes and learning from them. We understand that at Lumen Group. You will be given full scope to develop your own personality, qualities and experience.

Lumen Group builds with privacy. We therefore find it important that you, as part of Lumen Group, contribute to the further development of Lumen Group as a leading player in our field. Your passion, knowledge and quality contribute to supporting our clients on a legal, organizational and ethical level.

About Lumen Group
Lumen Group is an independent consultancy and project organization focused exclusively on the fields of data privacy and information security. We are active in offering high-quality and pragmatic solutions through DPO and CISO services, interim solutions, consultancy and advisory services, audits and training. We do this in several sectors such as education, (local) government, healthcare institutions, non-profits, public sector, corporates, financial institutions and SMEs.

Our young, ambitious team consists of highly educated people who want to get the most out of their career. We develop every day, we do this together. Lumen Group has little hierarchy, but we do have a culture in which we address each other quickly and easily. There is a confidential atmosphere: you have a lot of responsibility yourself, but you are never alone.

The world is rapidly digitizing and data is being used more and more. This offers enormous opportunities and possibilities, but also has a downside, which makes privacy and information security increasingly important.

By assisting our customers and exposing data privacy and information security, they can better manage risks and be prepared for the future. With this Lumen Group contributes to making the digital society fairer and safer. So your work makes the difference and really matters.

Together we create and see opportunities, we think in solutions and we get the bottom stone out.

This is what you take with you
A healthy dose of curiosity about the needs and objectives of our customers. In addition to a demonstrable passion for privacy and/or information security, you also have:

• Preferably relevant work experience as a business development manager, account or sales manager in, for example, the IT Sector or another sector. Having a good network in one or more sectors (eg healthcare, non-profit, etc.) is an advantage.
• A completed HBO or WO education. Think of business administration, marketing and sales or another commercial study.
• A signaling ability to detect opportunities in the market.
• Not only do you have a powerful story, you also know how to convince others of it.
• Good command of both the Dutch and English language in word and writing.

You can count on this

From day 1 you immediately belong to Team Lumen Group. In addition, at Lumen Group you can count on:

• A gross monthly salary of a minimum of €2,300 to a maximum of €5,500 (excluding 8.33% holiday allowance) based on a 40-hour working week, depending on your experience.
• Performance-related remuneration and bonus scheme.
• A challenging  tailor-made  growth path; 1-on-1 guidance and career counseling by your manager, so that you can continue to develop, both professionally and personally. In this training program, for example, think of the development of  soft skills  and professional skills.
• A laptop and a good mobility scheme and/or travel allowance.
• An attractive pension scheme.
• Access to the Lumen Academy and an online learning environment.
• 25 vacation days based on 40 hours.
• Regular drinks and a fully catered lunch at the office every day.
• An annual contract, with the aim of a contract for an indefinite period if it functions properly.