Country Lead

Blue Idea is a SaaS company that provides various types of intelligent digital communication for example for municipalities, water- and electricity companies. Inspiration for the name Blue Idea comes from the book "Blue Ocean Strategy". It is about starting with a well-known product and marketing it in a different way, thus opening up new opportunities for customer segmentation and market development. The driving force in Blue Idea is the desire to make a difference, to think, to open up new market opportunities - all for our customers. You can read more about the company from our Swedish website https://blueidea.se/om-oss/.

And don`t worry, Finnish website is on the way!

Blue Idea is expanding to Finland and now we are looking for a

COUNTRY LEAD

to launch Blue Idea`s business in Finland.

Are you a sales & business professional looking for new exciting challenges? Are you curious, bold and willing to start something totally new? Great!

Your job is to seek business opportunities for Blue Idea in Finland.

At first, you`ll start with finding a right working space in Helsinki Metropolitan area. You will be building this business with a CEO, who is living and working in Denmark, but will be supporting you and will be in Finland at the start.

At the same time, you`ll start recruiting your first colleague for a Sales Manager-position.

You and your colleague are responsible of the whole selling process from prospecting to closing. You will develop leads, find business opportunities, book and attend meetings with customers and so on. You will provide the best service for your customers.

You have earlier experience with leading b2b-sales. You might have worked with technical solutions before and you have to be technically oriented. It would be nice, if you have worked in a start up company and you can live with a ”not so well-organized” company for a while. You will be the one creating the ways of working, processes and culture and this challenge doesn`t scare you, likely opposite!

You are result oriented, you know your numbers and what you don`t know, you are willing to figure out and learn.

You have suitable education and your Finnish and English skills are fully professional profiency.

Swedish and/or Danish are considered as a bonus. To succeed in this role, you are a person who is driven by growth and you have excellent business skills. Hands on-attitude is a must.

As mentioned, you will be working with the company CEO and you have colleagues in Denmark and Sweden. At first, you will recruit one colleague in Finland and later on you`ll be responsible for growing your team and your business in Finland.

We offer you a great opportunity to start something totally new in Finnish market, proven concept and highly motivated colleagues to support you. The salary is competitive and reflecting the position, your yearly income sets between 60 000 € - 65 000 € + bonus. We want you to start in September 2021 but we are open to discuss this with you.

Interested? Great! Send us your application in English with your CV and Cover Letter at latest 15.6.2021.

Please note, we will go through applications as soon as we get them and we are willing to move fast when the right candidate is found. For more info, you can contact Katriina Rantanen from Go On Helsinki, +358 50 4777966 or [email protected], Mon-Fri between 9am-4pm.

Go On Helsinki is working as a partner for Blue Idea with this recruitment and the first interview will be done via Teams with Katriina Rantanen.