Business Development Manager

Salary Competitive

Volta Trucks

Founded in 2019, Volta Trucks is a fast-growing clean mobility start-up focusing on developing full-electric commercial vehicle solutions for tomorrow’s cities. Through product and business model innovations, the company’s ambition is to bring to market the most sustainable and safest truck.

 

The Volta Zero is the company’s first product and features an innovative driver-centric cabin design, the latest driver assistance and connectivity technologies to improve the driver’s experience and protect pedestrians, cyclists and other road users. The first prototype Volta Zero was launched in September 2020, with the first pre-production vehicles due to start evaluation with customers in 2021 ahead of the start of series production in 2022. Volta Trucks is pioneering a new business model by offering the vehicle to logistics operators as part of its Truck-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution. The suite includes, in addition to the lease of the vehicle, complementary services such as insurance, maintenance, energy infrastructure and supply. It will enable a frictionless transition to electric vehicle fleets for logistics operators and align incentives to reduce C02 emissions over the entire vehicle lifecycle.

The Role

To support its ambition to expand rapidly into new markets, Volta Trucks is looking for Business Development Managers in multiple Western Europe countries (i.e., Norway; Sweden; France; UK; Spain; Germany; Italy; Austria; Belgium; Netherlands). This is an opportunity to join a new team and shape the company’s go-to-market strategy from the outset. The role is initially based in Paris, where the product will be first introduced, before moving to the BDM’s country of responsibility to replicate the launch model.

Main responsibilities

  • Organize and manage vehicle demonstration events for prospective customers

  • Carry out market research to measure market value and product optimisation

  • Collaborate with existing partners

  • Create and develop new relationships with logistics operators

  • Educate prospects about electrification’s commercial and environmental benefits to facilitate adoption

  • Understand customers challenges to support the design of the optimal TaaS package

  • Support customers through our journey to delivery of vehicles in 2021

  • Create, implement and roll out documentation of process and procedures  

 

Qualifications and Experience

  • MBA degree from top European Business School

  • Automotive experience not essential – the candidate could also come from a technology, commercial sustainability or corporate / business background

  • Entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on approach, practical and enthusiastic

  • Strong team leadership and interpersonal skills, cross cultural understanding

  • Ability to work autonomously in the fast-paced, complex and ambiguous environment of a start-up

  • Positive and passionate, good team player

  • Fluency in English and in a second language, depending on the country of application

For more information or questions please contact us at glenn.hiscocks@voltatrucks.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

Healthcare insurance
Healthcare insurance

Break a leg! Seriously, we got you covered in our company healthcare plan.

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

Metropolitists, beach boys and mountaineers we salute you and pay you to go and explore the world.

Working at
Volta Trucks

We are revolutionising last-mile logistics by delivering safer, more sustainable, electric trucks which protect vulnerable road users and improve city centre environments for all. We build electric trucks for sustainable cities. Our zero emission powertrains eliminate harmful pollution that causes climate change. But we go beyond exhaust emissions with near carbon neutral vehicle components and a constant drive to reduce the environmental impact of our supply chain and manufacturing footprint.

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