Consulting Business Development Manager DACH Region (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Germany
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Consulting Business Development Manager DACH Region (m/f/d)
from 🇩🇪 Germany
Business Development Manager – Food Safety Services DACH (m/f/d)
📍 Location: Germany / Austria / Switzerland
🌐 International scope | Travel required (mostly within the DACH region)
🌍 About Diversey / Solenis
We areSolenis Diversey Food Consulting – a trusted partner to the global food industry. We supportfoodandbeverageproducers, processors, and retailers in delivering safe, high-quality products while meeting the highest standards infood safety, hygiene, and operational excellence.
With a presence in over 160 countries, our teams work closely with customers to improve food safety culture, enhance production efficiency, and help businesses meet evolving regulatory and consumer expectations.
Our expertise combines industry knowledge, practical consultancy, and digital tools to help customers protect their brands, ensure compliance, and create safe environments from farm to fork.
At Solenis Diversey Food Consulting, we are passionate about shaping the future of food safety—helping our partners deliver products consumers can trust every day.
🚀 Drive commercial growth in Food Safety consulting
Diversey Consulting is looking for aBusiness Development Manager (BDM) to lead growth across theDACH region.
This is ahybrid role combiningtechnical expertise in food safety withcommercial leadership. You’ll work closely with major food organizations, helping them design and implement world-class solutions—while driving revenue, partnerships, and market expansion.
If you’re afood safety expert ready to step into (or grow in) a commercial leadership role, this is your opportunity.
🎯 What you’ll be responsible for
- Drive business growth across the DACH region, owning pipeline, revenue and results
- Develop and execute acommercial strategy to expand Diversey Consulting’s footprint
- Identify and buildstrategic partnerships within the food industry
- Leadconsultative sales processes, from needs assessment to solution design and closing
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients (Quality, Operations, Food Safety leaders)
- Own regionalP&L performance and business outcomes
- Coordinate and managedelivery teams (consultants, partners, laboratories, etc.)
- Ensure successfulexecution of client projects
👤 What we’re looking for
✅ Must-have:
- University degree inFood Safety, Food Technology, Food Engineering, Veterinary Sciences or similar
- Strongtechnical understanding of food safety and operations
- Fluency inGerman and English
✅ Experience & mindset:
- Experience inbusiness development, sales, or consultative roles
- Strongcommercial mindset with the ability to translate expertise into business opportunities
- Ability to assess client needs and proposetailored, value-driven solutions
- Natural relationship builder with strongcommunication skills
- Entrepreneurial, proactive, and results-driven
- Comfortable managing bothclients and cross-functional delivery teams
💡We are open to candidates transitioning from technical roles into sales, provided you bring strong business drive and ambition.
🌟 Why join Diversey Consulting?
- 🌍 Global leader in Food Safety consulting
- 📈 Strong growth ambitions across Europe
- 🤝 Work with leading internationalfood industry clients
- 🚀 High ownership: manage your market, P&L and business strategy
- 📚 Continuous learning in bothtechnical and commercial domains
- ⬆️ Real career progression opportunities
✨ What we offer
- 💰Competitive salary package with attractive bonus opportunities (aligned with the chemical industry standards)
- 🛡️Strong benefits package, including company pension and comprehensive social coverage
- 📚Continuous learning & career growth – tailored development plans, training, and international opportunities
- 🌍Truly global environment with strong cross-border collaboration
- 🌱Meaningful work – make a real impact on sustainability and resource efficiency
- 🤝Supportive and collaborative culture where your contributions are valued
- 🚀 Opportunities to work oncutting-edge, future-focused technologies
- 🧘Health & wellbeing programs (depending on location)
📩 Interested?
Apply with your CV (motivation letter optional)
We look forward to hearing from you!
Food Safety technical background. University studies in related disciplines with commercial-management knowledge, attitude and experience.



