Business Development Assistant

The assistant of Business Development Manager will be responsible for sales, new business development and account management for Dot Kite’s customers in the North European territory. 
This includes cold calling, responding to customer sales needs, properly qualifying prospects, applying a solutions selling methodology to the sales cycle,promptly completing proposals and sales activities, closing sales opportunities quickly and efficiently, and completing necessary paperwork and implementation steps to set projects in motion successfully. This also includes managing the ongoing relationship with customers.

This position is a high-profile growth opportunity that demands passion, creativity, a highly motivated individual with strong sales, communications and organizational skills who is eager to learn and become part of the most rapidly-growing design company in Europe.

Responsibilities also include working with the Creative team to win client opportunities and to represent clients internally. As part of the rainmaker team this position will generate new business and maintain client relationships. You must love to win new business and manage existing relationships.

• Passionate personality
• Creative Mindset
• Strong creative writing and proposal development
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to accurately identify and assess opportunities, and aggressively
  manage the successful execution of a sales strategy
• Experience in account management and business development practices
• Responsible for ensuring optimal market coverage including identifying and developing unique market strategies for penetrating key accounts and prospects, and measurement of progress through management of opportunity pipeline and revenue forecasting.

The brands of the Dot Kite group, all with their own personal identity, are linked by the same philosophy, which distinguishes itself for a well-balanced mix of tradition and modernity, high quality, creativity and functionality. The high standard of quality met by the products is guaranteed by the strong craftsmanship involved in every and each phase of the production: every product is crafted with techniques of the highest skilled hand craftsmanship. After various production steps and control phases the product is destined to become an exclusive and distinguishable object.
Dot Kite - Lab offers professional design services in many different areas, from furniture to consumer electronics, from packaging solutions to graphics, and design identity/branding programs.

Dot Kite, a multidisciplinary design company based in Amsterdam with a creative collaborative design environment influencing its future growth by communicating the services we provide to current and future clients.

The internship at Dot Kite starts from January/February, for a period of two up to six months.