Global Strategic Business Development Manager; Location: Schaan (LI) or Urdorf (Zurich Metropolitan Area, CH)

• Identify, assess and prioritize global market opportunities across industries (e.g., industrial, medical, government/defense, infrastructure).
• Analyze macro trends, regulatory environments, competitive landscapes and technology roadmaps.
• Identify markets where Neutrik's competencies in connectivity, reliability and materials offer the strongest value.
• Apply a structured, hypothesis-driven methodology to quantify market attractiveness (market size, growth, barriers, differentiation opportunities and realistic access paths).

• Structure each promising market into logical segments and applications.
• Identify customer needs, pain points, unmet requirements and system-level constraints.
• Translate complex environments into transparent segmentation and prioritization logic based on strategic fit, revenue potential, complexity and time-to-market.

• Develop clear market-entry strategies (“where to play” and “how to win”) using structured strategic frameworks.
• Build business cases and multi-year financial models for the most attractive segments.
• Define a 3-5 year business roadmap including product opportunities, partnerships, go-to-market strategy and operational requirements.
• Develop scenario analyses and risk-adjusted recommendations for the CEO.

• Identify key target customers and establish strategic relationships.
• Lead early-stage customer discussions primarily to validate strategic hypotheses and capture structured Voice-of-Customer insights
• Translate market needs into clear inputs for R&D and Product Management.
• Support teams in understanding industry-specific standards and constraints.
• Prepare the organization for new market requirements (processes, materials, regulatory topics, certifications, testing, documentation depth) in close collaboration with Operations/COO.

• Act as the central orchestrator for new market-entry initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with R&D, Operations, Product Management, Sales and Quality.
• Ensure clarity, alignment and structure across interfaces by communicating decision-relevant insights.
• Ensure readiness in supply chain, compliance, testing and quality management.
• Act as a strategic sparring partner to the CEO and senior leadership - not as a commercial owner or sales lead.

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering with a major in Business, Industrial Engineering or a comparable field.
• Several years of experience (7+ preferred) in business development, strategy, product management or corporate innovation.
• Proven track record in identifying and building new markets.
• Exceptionally strong analytical and structuring skills; ability to break down ambiguous, complex topics into clear frameworks, hypotheses and decision options.
• Broad understanding of technology-driven industries and their regulatory frameworks.
• Experience working with OEMs or system integrators in technically demanding sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic hypotheses into tangible business opportunities and to build business cases, market models and strategic roadmaps.
• Comfortable operating in strongly fact-driven environments.
• Ability to engage with customers and partners to generate market insight and strategic validation rather than transactional sales.
• High level of personal ownership, resilience, and internal entrepreneurial mindset.
• Strategic thinker who can zoom between macro-level industry trends and micro-level product implications.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to influence and advise decision-makers across functions.
• Highly structured, disciplined and systematic working style, with a clear preference for creating structure where none exists.
• Curious mindset with the ability to quickly understand new industries and application landscapes.

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