Regional Business Development Manager

Regional Business Development Manager

Location: Budapest, Hungary (frequent travel within Hungary)

Main Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain long-term business relationships with partner locations
• Act as a strategic advisor, supporting operational and commercial activities at partner sites in line with network standards
• Implement and maintain network concepts across locations, including coordination of annual quality review processes
• Prepare and support annual business planning for existing and prospective partner locations
• Monitor, analyze and present sales performance and cost plans
• Conduct regular KPI reviews and implement corrective actions to meet business targets
• Provide ongoing operational and commercial support to partner network locations
• Coordinate and execute marketing initiatives and campaigns
• Drive engagement with preferred suppliers and support network-wide promotional activities
• Focus on customer-facing sales and marketing initiatives at partner locations
• Ensure consistent implementation of network quality and service standards
• Identify improvement areas and deliver training to partners and their teams (customer experience, sales techniques, visual standards, local marketing)
• Contribute actively to process improvement initiatives

Requirements:

• Min. 3 years of experience in sales, retail network development or partner/franchise management
• Strong communication, organizational, project management and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence partners and stakeholders
• Experience in leading, motivating and developing business partners to achieve performance targets
• Demonstrated track record of delivering measurable results
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Excellent presentation and negotiation skills
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and occasionally high-pressure environment
• High level of adaptability in a constantly evolving business setting
• Willingness to spend up to 70-80% of time visiting business partners across Hungary