{"id":9733,"date":"2025-04-11T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:38:08","slug":"business-development-manager-road-transport-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/blog\/business-development-manager-road-transport-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Development Manager Road Transport Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Widem Logistics, founded in 1983, is part of an international logistics group specialized in fashion logistics &amp; road, air and sea transport.<\/p>\n<p>To help further grow our organization, we are looking for a Business Development Manager for our branch in Bologna Italy. You will mainly be responsible for the local development of the ROAD activities.<\/p>\n<p>You will be actively approaching, prospecting and following up with customers, as well as working out commercial rates &amp; tenders where necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does your day look like as a Business Development Manager?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will be responsible for the active sales of the transport services from Italy to almost all of Europe including UK, North Africa &amp; Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>You will sell all services of the group but have a specific focus on road transport.<\/li>\n<li>You will take initiatives, make new contacts and manage the customer portfolio for which you are responsible. Cold calling, hunting or farming does not scare you but gives you energy!<\/li>\n<li>You plan your own agenda and make sure you make a good mix between customer visits and administration.<\/li>\n<li>You will work alongside other company business units and identify opportunities for the group and trends in the market.<\/li>\n<li>You work independently and report directly to management.<\/li>\n<li>Your place of employment will be Calderara di Reno, Italy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Designated training and job requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must have experience in the transport sector especially European transport market, know the main actors and have a feel for tariffs.<\/li>\n<li>You are customer focused, result driven and commercially astute.<\/li>\n<li>You will be a hard and motivated worker as well as strong communicator and a real networker.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of languages: a good knowledge of Italian &amp; English is an absolute must. French is a plus.<\/li>\n<li>You will have good knowledge of MS-Office suites, but also experience with Navision is a plus.<\/li>\n<li>You highly value quality and accuracy, you are quick to get involved which allows you to be flexible and you are driven to provide the best service to our customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Our offer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open-ended contract<\/li>\n<li>An enthusiastic, dynamic and international team<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited learning in a very interesting sector.<\/li>\n<li>A challenging position with strong involvement in an internationally oriented yet family-oriented company in full expansion.<\/li>\n<li>A competitive salary package<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested in this job? Please Contact us at<u><b><span style=\"color: var(--awb-color6);\"> <\/span><a href=\"mailto:info@widem.eu\" style=\"color: var(--awb-color6);\">info@widem.eu<\/a><\/b><\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vacancy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12605,"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions\/12605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.widem.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}