Business Developer Intern, BABLE Smart Cities
Iberia
Smart city consulting
Open for applications
Smart city consulting
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
Bable's mission is to drive the change for a better urban life.
Role
Who you are
- Following a master’s or bachelor’s degree in Business Development, Business Administration, Marketing and Sales, or similar
- Compulsory internship as part of the curriculum would be preferable
- Native level in Spanish, professional language in English
- Your languages: Spanish (Native), English (Professional proficiency), Portuguese (desired), and other EU languages are welcome!
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Tech-driven and data searching initiative
- Interest in working with an international and multidisciplinary team
- Ability to deliver high-quality results in independent work
- Good command of MS Office tools
- Experience in the field of smart/sustainable cities/urban planning would be an asset
What the job involves
- We are looking for a 6-month intern to support us with business development in the public sector in Iberia
- Help identify potential clients and create project opportunities aligned with the strategic vision, work areas, and objectives of the company, expanding the company's client portfolio
- Support with managing the entire sales cycle from prospecting, commercial pitch, and closing
- Creating and writing offers together with the technical team
- Build strong emotional contracts with the public sector
- Researching the Spanish and Portuguese Smart Cities market to stay up-to-date also with public funds, and news in the Sector
- Supporting in representing BABLE in Spain and Portugal, both at fairs and events as well as before clients and partners
Our take
Smart Cities are on the rise - not only for the environmental and logistical benefits they stand to offer, but also for the upwards of $20T in economic benefits they could bring into cities over the coming years. BABLE is a spin-off from Europe’s largest applied research institution, the Fraunhofer Research Society. Its aim is to help cities implement Smart City solutions, and to that end it offers management and consultancy services to help connect cities with the companies who can help them execute.
In doing so, BABLE has savvily connected two often overlooked dots: that there’s an increasing demand for urban planning and management solutions; and that many of these solutions may well already exist - the company just didn’t get the right funding and support to scale properly.
It’s an interesting niche to be filling. With the institutional pedigree of Fraunhofer, coupled with the general push in Western countries to catch up with the smart city transformations of the East, BABLE is successfully tapping into a growing and possibly highly lucrative sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2023
$6m
EARLY VC
Oct 2023
$3.6m
GRANT
Total funding: $9.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours (including remote working)
- Transportation stipend
- Professional development stipends
- Health insurance according to the rules of employee’s geographic locatio
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alexander Schmidt
(CEO)Previously a Researcher and Project + Competence Development Lead at Fraunhofer, who went on to serve as Director of the M-Factory at EIT Innovation Community Urban Mobility.
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