# Business Strategy Developer - International

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: The Netherlands
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

As a Business Development Consultant for Elastic International, you'll work at the intersection of strategy and execution, partnering with senior leaders to shape how we grow across our international markets. You will help turn complex business challenges into clear plans with measurable outcomes.

## Responsibilities

- Shape strategy that sticks. Partner directly with executives to design short- and long-term business plans, refine business models, and develop go-to-market strategies that are grounded in data and built to scale.

- Connect the dots across the business. Collaborate with cross-functional teams , from Sales and Marketing to Product and Finance , to align goals, remove friction, and drive strategic initiatives from concept to execution.

- Make the numbers talk. Conduct financial analyses, business valuations, and profitability assessments that turn strategy into something we can actually fund, build, and defend.

- Define what success looks like. Establish KPIs that give us an honest read on progress, and have the judgment to recommend pivots when the data calls for it.

- Drive growth. Develop and implement initiatives that tangibly move the needle on revenue and operational efficiency , not just slides, but outcomes.

## Requirements

- 2–5 years of experience in a consulting firm or a SaaS corporate sales strategy function , you know how to structure ambiguous problems and communicate findings to senior stakeholders

- Strong quantitative and financial modelling skills , you're comfortable in a spreadsheet and can tell a story with data

- Strategic clarity and the ability to operate at both the 30,000-foot level and in the weeds when needed

- A solid grasp of the technology market , you understand enterprise software, SaaS dynamics, and what drives growth in this space

- You don't need to have all the answers yet , curiosity and drive matter as much as experience here

- An MBA or equivalent advanced degree from a top business school is a plus, but your thinking matters more than your pedigree

## Benefits

- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

- Generous number of vacation days each year

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- financial analysis
- business development
- SaaS
- enterprise software

### Nice to have
- MBA
- financial modelling
- data analysis

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