Internship Business Development

The challenge?

Are you someone who likes independency combined with responsibility? Trust, creativity,
authenticity and return on reputation are the core values that you want to share with us and our customers every day. For our activities in the blue economy we are looking for a business development intern. Your role and responsibilities will be:

  • In general, supporting our team by developing our innovative nature based solutions towards go-to-market level.
  • Developing business cases for our technological solutions, such as the use of worms for dewatering, Saas ecosystem services NESEV, MIRAX digital twin for water systems, Aquabreak offshore seaweed.
  • Reaching out to potential clients, stakeholders, etc. in networking events, conferences, etc. in Belgium and abroad;
  • Writing proposals and / or commercial offers.
  • Developing your own ideas.

Why you?

People make the difference! Sharing the same values provides connectivity and joy. We search for people who transform their experiences into development and solutions:

  • You find it attractive to take-up a key-position in a fast growing, flexible & agile company in Belgium, with additional presence in Portugal and Ecuador ?
  • You want to combine your business background with nature enhancing engineering solutions ? 
  • You are interested in bridging the gap between research and the market and the engineering practice.
  • You love working in an international environment , with strong local roots.
  • Your intellectual independency and personal growth is worth more to you than a routine
    working environment.

Do you recognize yourself in this profile?

  • Diploma in Business Development, Economics, Trade Sciences or equivalent.
  • Master diploma by preference, experience is no must, but appreciated
  • Fluent in English, any other language knowledge (especially Spanish, French, Portuguese,
    Flemish) is a plus.
  • Preferably EU – citizen, if not able to work within the EU at short notice.

What do we offer?

Growth and self-development:

At HAEDES you can be yourself. Combine your soul and science skills! Your personal growth, passion and development is important for us. That is why we offer you a creative and stimulating environment with varied content in which you can further develop your expertise. We commit ourselves to offer you support with personal guidance and coaching, the opportunity to follow training courses and exchange knowledge with colleagues with years of experience.
A unique working context:

  • An organization as a living-system, which is able to rapidly sense and respond to the ever changing business climate by engaging, co-creating and innovating with the stakeholders.
  • A human-centred, possibility driven, holistic & (eco)system thinking environment that has impact on reducing the cause of climate change and the loss of bio-diversity.
  • A company where return on reputation goes above return on investment.
  • A nurturing environment, surrounded with experts with passion, knowledge & a lot of humour.
  • A small , flexible company, but with international large projects where you can learn on the fast lane !

A remuneration package according to the legal Flemish BIS-system (Beroepsinlevingsstage (BIS) | Vlaanderen.be), maximum of 6 months full-time internship with clear possibility to develop into a formal employment contract. Start is foreseen as soon as possible, but is flexible.

We pay attention to sustainability, by keeping the work pleasant and interesting in the long term. We aspire to a working place that encourages people to live in harmony with each other and with their environments. Working in a flexible way, sometimes remote, sometimes at the office or on location worldwide, will contribute to harmony in your life.

Why HAEDES?

We enable independent, talent oriented and creative consultancy & engineering for challenges at our coasts, estuaries, rivers & oceans. We provide engineering based on a nature enhanced framework & system thinking. Regenerative development and design have our preference. We aspire to focus on nature-based solutions, to improve resilience, contribute to real sustainable solutions and positively impact bio-diversity and wellbeing of communities.

Are you the right person on the right place?

Please don’t wait any longer. We look forward to getting to know you. Send your application and motivation to renaat.desutter@haedes.eu and touch our soul. Please refer to “Vacancy 2025/B1 – Intern Bus Dev”. .