Business Development Manager New Spaces
Key Skills
Job Description
About Signify
Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.
At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.
Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world.
More about the role
This is an exciting job opportunity for you to light the way as a Business Development Manager New Spaces in Eindhoven with Signify in the Intelligent Buildings team.
Identify and qualify Emerging Spaces opportunities (beyond lighting), manage and build a qualified opportunity pipeline.
Driving growth for Emerging spaces for Europe with the regional end-user and CSI team.
Develop and manage strategic partnerships in your region.
Support M&A exploration with market and business insights.
Drive early market validation and pilot projects.
Enable market activation with partners and regions by providing training, marketing, and project/customer support.
More about you
While we value and appreciate all applicants, we believe that the following experience and skills will be needed to shine brightly in this job opening:
Deep understanding of customer needs and various stakeholders in the smart building ecosystem, with strong skills in connecting with customers, ideally supported by direct sales experience.
Commercial, sales track record in selling services and growing new businesses.
Business development execution mindset.
Cross‑functional collaboration skills.
Strong ecosystem and partnership management skills.
Highly adaptable and resilient in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
Everything we’ll do for you
You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 27,000+ people. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce present in 70+ countries, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together.
Come join us, and together we can light up the future.
Core Responsibilities
Identify and qualify emerging opportunities beyond lighting to build a qualified pipeline for Intelligent Buildings in Europe. Develop strategic partnerships, drive early market validation through pilot projects, and support M&A exploration with business insights.
Requirements
Requires a deep understanding of the smart building ecosystem and a proven commercial track record in selling services and growing new businesses. Candidates must possess a business development execution mindset and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally in fast-paced environments.
Benefits
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Career Development Support
About Signify
Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
At Cooper Lighting Solutions, a Signify business, we build forward-thinking lighting and control solutions that make people’s lives safer while making buildings, homes and cities smarter and more sustainable. We deliver an industry-leading portfolio of indoor and outdoor LED lighting, advanced lighting controls and connected lighting systems across commercial, industrial, residential, sports, healthcare, education, retail and infrastructure applications. From performance-driven luminaires to intelligent networked control platforms, our solutions help customers enhance energy efficiency, improve occupant comfort and meet evolving building codes and sustainability goals. Our portfolio includes trusted brands such as HALO, Metalux, Lumark, McGraw-Edison, Streetworks, NeoRay and Corelite. Together, we serve architects, engineers, lighting designers, contractors, distributors and facility managers across North America. We continue to expand our innovation and industrial capabilities through strategic growth, including the recent acquisition of Nemalux, a market leader in hazardous location lighting. This strengthens our ability to serve customers operating in demanding environments where safety and performance are critical. We question. We seek. We solve. Because building a better world means asking tough questions and pushing harder for answers. Together with our customers, we design lighting environments that support productivity, safety, connection and performance, bringing the best of life to light in every environment we help create. Cooper Lighting Solutions is a business unit of Signify, the world leader in lighting. Together, we share a purpose to unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world.