Business Developer

Business Developer at Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE)

Are you passionate about facilitating the development of researchers’ ability to create societal impact through innovation and entrepreneurship? Do you easily comprehend the trajectory of transforming ideas into businesses and enjoy guiding startups on various stages?

About Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship

You will be part of an international team at Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship, which is CBS' unit for practical and applied entrepreneurship. We foster innovation and entrepreneurship across universities through incubation and acceleration programs, alongside various educational and research initiatives. We believe that innovation and entrepreneurship play a vital role in addressing societal challenges.

You will join a new and evolving team focusing on academic entrepreneurship while also collaborating closely with the existing team of Business Developers. Therefore, you will have a great opportunity to play an important role in setting the frames for how we work with research-based innovation at CBS while having a wide span of collaboration points across the CSE startup community and team.

Your tasks

• Supporting entrepreneurs in equipping and mastering transformational entrepreneurship capabilities.
• Providing practical advice to early-stage startups, drawing from knowledge of business models and sustainability.
• Taking part in and leading business ideation, development sessions and workshops.
• Representing CSE at different events and participate in spreading the word about the opportunities that we offer to students and researchers.
• Supporting and strengthening our community in becoming a world leading entrepreneurial learning environment.
• Ensuring data capture and systems are robust to derive insights and provide reporting on startup progress and outcomes.
• Developing our approach to helping researchers on their entrepreneurial journey.
• Providing coaching support to founders with particular focus on presentations and pitching skills (support ICT competition team)
• Designing and deliver workshops content on behalf of CSE for semi-formal learning environment
• Providing practical advice to founders on topic of diversity and inclusion.

Your profile

Strong business profile

• You are excited about helping startups and founders find the shortest path to product-market-fit and you leave entrepreneurs feeling energized and excited about what they will do next after you have had a meeting with them.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding others through the startup journey and supporting on presentation and pitching skills
• You have sufficient experience to be able to look at anything from user insights, journey maps and prototypes and immediately ask relevant questions, point to potential problems, and offer pathways forward that save the startups valuable time and resources.
• Ability to work in an innovative and flexible environment.
• You are confident in reaching out to new people, stakeholder management and networking.
• Solid social competencies, the ability to communicate and build strong relations with students as well as researchers.
• Proven experience working in a topic of diversity and inclusion
• Ability to design and deliver workshops for semi-formal learning environment
• You may have experience with back-end data and CRM systems such as Podio, Citrix Automations, Power BI, MailChimp and Qualtrics.
• You are eager to working as a coach, travelling and deliver your mentoring skills to founders
• You speak and write English.

Many backgrounds can be relevant for this position. You should however have experience with idea, concept and business development and a strong interest in the challenges and opportunities for early-stage and research-based startups.

We offer

A position where you are surrounded by a lively, committed and curious community of students and researchers as well as a supporting, dedicated and enthusiastic team.

This role is a permanent position, full time employment of 37 hours a week.

Employment and remuneration take place in accordance with the applicable agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the relevant organization, with a classification and remuneration depending on qualifications and experience.

Employment process
Expected start date is as soon as possible, but no later than 1 January 2025. We will contact and interview applicants ongoing and we will hire as soon as we find the right candidate.

One of CBS' strategic goals is to promote diversity in our organization. Therefore, we strive for a hiring process that reduces potential bias. We therefore encourage applicants not to include photos or unnecessary information about personal circumstances in the application.

Do you want to know more?
If you have questions for the position, you are welcome to contact Head of Student Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Amy Wilson on [email protected] or refer to the CSE website, www.cse.cbs.dk, for more information about our programmes

Application Deadline: 13 November 2024.

Application due: 11/13/2024

WE TRANSFORM SOCIETY WITH BUSINESS

CBS is a globally recognised business school with deep roots in the Nordic socio-economic model. We have a broad focus on business and societal challenges of the 21st century. As such we have a full portfolio of high-quality disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and education that has equipped generations of professionals and leaders in the private sector and beyond.

Located at Frederiksberg, Denmark, the school has approx. 21.000 full and part-time students, 760 full-time faculty members, 210 PhD students and 680 administrative staff, and a full portfolio of Bachelor, Master’s, MBA/EMBA, PhD and Executive programmes delivered in English and Danish.

Our global profile carries the obligation to develop the transformational capabilities of students, graduates and business leaders via our educational activities and opportunities for lifelong learning. Complex challenges call for joint action, and therefore our strategy focuses on strengthening current and starting new partnerships with other sciences, the business community, authorities and civil society.