New Business Manager

This role is part of our Experience & Engineering team based in the Netherlands. We combine our skills in developing future-ready technical solutions with our expertise in creating beautiful designs to deliver exceptional and engaging digital experiences that build lasting relationships with our clients like Gant, Inter Milan, bol.com and Just Eat Takeaway. We are looking for a New Business Manager who is hungry to build something. In this role, you will identify and develop new business opportunities for our Netherlands team, helping ambitious brands solve complex digital challenges through the combined power of technology, design, and strategy.

Responsibilities

Build and nurture relationships with marketing and technology decision-makers at prospect organisations, translating their challenges into clear, compelling solutions; Represent DEPT® with confidence in client conversations, demonstrating knowledge across digital experience, engineering, and emerging technologies like AI; Proactively identify and qualify new business opportunities through direct outreach, events, partnerships, and collaboration with the marketing team; Manage your own pipeline end-to-end, from first contact to signed proposal; Use CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce) to track activity, report on progress, and develop good habits around forecasting and pipeline hygiene; Work closely with delivery leads, solution architects, and strategists to build proposals and pitches that showcase DEPT®'s strengths; Develop familiarity with our key technology partners (e.g., Shopify, Adobe, Optimizely) and understand how those partnerships create opportunities

Requirements

Previous experience in business development, consultative sales, or a client-facing role with a strong commercial component, within a digital agency, tech consultancy, or related environment; Experience selling project-based work, with exposure to digital experience, content management and publishing, ecommerce, or technology services; Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders at manager and director level, with the ambition to grow into C-level conversations over time; A structured approach to prospecting and pipeline management, you know how to keep deals moving; Strong communicator who can explain complex ideas in straightforward, client-friendly language; Collaborative by nature, you enjoy working across teams and bringing people together around a pitch; Fluency in Dutch and English language

Nice to have

Familiarity with solutions like CMS, PIM, DAM, or content supply chain is a plus; Exposure to digital experience platforms, ecommerce solutions, or cloud/technology services; Familiarity with multi-stakeholder sales cycles and how to navigate them; Interest in how AI and emerging technology are reshaping digital services

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working policy (2-3 days from the office, depending on location) and opportunity to work from abroad for 13 weeks a year; 24 vacation days per year and possibility to buy an unlimited number of extra vacation days; DEPT®/YOU Learning Menu and DEPT®/YOU Special Programs; Contribution to health through OpenUp platform, gym and wellness discounts, and healthy lunches at the office; Discount on lease bike and NS Business Card; Reputation for doing good - Certified B Corp since 2021, Great Place To Work since 2022 in Netherlands, Agency of the Year at The Lovies and The Webby Awards; Opportunity to work with awesome clients