At Next Learning Valley, you'll discover how to identify business opportunities, build new relationships, and help organizations ensure that learning makes a demonstrable contribution to their performance.

Together with the Business Development Manager and your colleagues from Go-to-Market, Learning Consultancy, and Development, you’ll work on bringing in new clients and exciting projects. You’ll identify business opportunities, bring together the right expertise, and learn how to turn an initial client request into a solution that truly adds value.

About Next Learning Valley

Next Learning Valley helps organizations link learning to sustainable performance. With educational expertise, consulting, and smart learning technology, we build learning environments where people and organizations can grow continuously.

We work with leading organizations such as ABN AMRO, VodafoneZiggo, the Red Cross, and the Ministry of Defense. Our solutions and implementations have earned international recognition and have won multiple awards.

To continue our growth, we are looking for an enthusiastic Junior Business Developer with a drive for business and a passion for learning and development.

Your role

As a Junior Business Developer, you’ll help identify, approach, and develop new clients and opportunities. You’ll work closely with the Business Development Manager and learn, step by step, how to advise organizations on learning, technology, and performance.

You’ll help prepare for client meetings, demos, and proposals. You’ll also carefully track our sales activities and client information. As you gain more experience, you’ll be given increasing responsibility and the freedom to pursue opportunities on your own.

What you will do

• You will research interesting organizations, markets, and business opportunities.
• Together with clients, you’ll explore the underlying causes of their learning and performance challenges and identify where Next Learning Valley can add value.
• You'll reach out to potential customers via email, LinkedIn, and phone.
• You'll schedule appointments and prepare for client meetings together with the Business Development Manager.
• You will assist with creating presentations, quotes, and commercial proposals.
• You'll help prepare and conduct demos of our Learning Suite.
• You identify relevant tenders and requests for proposals and assist in responding to them.
• You keep customer information, interactions, and opportunities up to date in HubSpot.
• You carefully follow up on leads and ensure that commitments are fulfilled.
• You'll work alongside colleagues from marketing, consulting, and management.
• You share insights from conversations so that we can continuously improve our commercial approach.

What defines you

Above all, we're looking for someone who is curious, takes initiative, and is eager to learn. Experience in business development is a plus, but certainly not a requirement.

• You have a college-level or university-level level of thinking.
• You have an interest in learning, development, and technology.
• You get energy from making connections and building relationships.
• You communicate easily and professionally, both verbally and in writing.
• You speak and write Dutch fluently and have a good command of English. Knowledge of German is a plus.
• You are organized and follow through on your commitments.
• You're not afraid to ask questions and are open to feedback.
• You have a business-oriented mindset, without losing sight of the customer's best interests.
• Some commercial experience—for example, gained through an internship, part-time job, or first job—is a plus but not required.

What We Offer

At Next Learning Valley, you’ll work alongside passionate professionals in the fields of pedagogy, technology, consulting, marketing, and project management. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn and grow into an independent business development professional.

You can count on:

• A varied entry-level position with a clear career path.
• Personal guidance from our Business Development Manager.
• An enthusiastic and multidisciplinary team of dedicated professionals: colleagues who are experts in their fields, enjoy working together, and from whom you can learn a great deal.
• Plenty of room for initiative and new ideas.
• The opportunity to work with innovative learning technology and on projects for leading organizations.
• An open and professional work environment where we learn from and with one another.
• Flexible and hybrid work arrangements from home and our coworking space in Utrecht.
• A competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a retirement plan.
• A company laptop.
• Above all, plenty of room to grow—because as you grow, we grow with you.

Ready to start your career in sales?

Would you like to learn how to build new relationships, turn customer questions into valuable solutions, and help organizations ensure that learning truly contributes to performance?

Then apply for the Junior Business Developer position at Next Learning Valley. We’d love to meet you.