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ALTERNA is looking for a business specialist fellow to support current and potential business units as well as guiding them through their various stages. The Business Developer will be responsible
for working closely with local entrepreneurs and/or internal business units, provide tailored guidance, helping them with areas such as finance, marketing,
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ALTERNA is looking for a business specialist fellow to support current and potential business units as well as guiding them through their various stages. The Business Developer will be responsible
for working closely with local entrepreneurs and/or internal business units, provide tailored guidance, helping them with areas such as finance, marketing, logistics and other organizational duties. This position will have a direct impact on the success of Alterna´s first incubated businesses. The position requires a minimum stay of 4 months.
Key accountabilities include but are not limited to:
1. 1. Tailored business accompaniment
ï‚· To coordinate strategic planning for incubated businesses under varying degrees of uncertainty
ï‚· To identify main opportunity areas in incubated businesses and ideas
ï‚· Build consensus with entrepreneurs around concrete actions to achieve mid & long-term
objectives, with deadlines and follow-up processes
ï‚· To participate in the evaluation of ongoing activities, providing actionable advises and promoting
feedback sessions when appropriate
ï‚· To manage complex and simultaneous projects under pressure, with tight deadlines and budgets.
2. Business Plan creation or refinement
ï‚· Support entrepreneurs create or refine their business plans according to their needs
ï‚· Provide entrepreneurs with relevant tools, documents and information to enhance their business
plans.
ï‚· Develop ongoing market research to complement and deepen the analysis
ï‚· Establish open and effective communication channels with in-house technical developers to
inform the business plan inputs
ï‚· Look for and/or assist external mentors or consultants during the business plan creation
ï‚· Maintain outstanding current relationships and meet commitments in time and manner
3. Data organization
ï‚· To help keep clean and lean financial and accounting processes.
ï‚· To create and develop hard and soft copy file systems for Alterna in line with its strategy, ensuring
accessibility, whilst maintaining confidentiality as necessary.
4. General administration, marketing and organization
ï‚· To support with the administration tasks, as agreed by the Business Director.
ï‚· To discuss, agree, and introduce new procedures and systems to improve the administrative
process of the organization
ï‚· To develop general marketing and communication materials for Alterna and the entrepreneurship
center.