Business Development Consultant

Business Development Consultant – Digital Enterprise Solutions

📍 Location: [Amersfoort]

Imagine this

You’re sitting with a global energy client, guiding them through their roadmap to net-zero. You’ve just presented a data-driven solution that will cut emissions by 20% while optimizing their process efficiency. Around you, a multidisciplinary Yokogawa team is transforming insight into impact — blending engineering, data science, and sustainability consulting. In this moment, you see how your expertise shapes industries, not just outcomes. You’re co-innovating tomorrow: turning technology into purpose.

As a Business Development Consultant you’ll help global customers unlock new possibilities through data, digitalization, and decarbonization. Your work will directly contribute to reducing carbon footprints, optimizing performance, and shaping resilient, sustainable operations for future generations.

Why Yokogawa? – A Century of Purpose-Driven Progress

Yokogawa has been innovating for over 100 years — not for the sake of technology, but to solve real-world industrial challenges in energy, manufacturing, chemicals, and life sciences. We help our customers operate efficiently, safely, and sustainably — and we’re proud to support the transition to a low-carbon future.

But what truly sets us apart is how we work:

✅ We believe in co-innovation — across teams, countries, and disciplines.
✅ We’re driven by a mission to contribute to a better world — for people and planet.
✅ And we know our greatest assets are the people behind the systems.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead consulting engagements that design and deliver digital enterprise solutions for complex industrial systems.

• Partner with clients to develop digital strategies and business models that align with decarbonization and transformation goals.

• Drive strategic sales opportunities — from C-level advisory discussions to detailed proposals and solution design.

• Develop and manage partnerships with technology providers and consulting firms.

• Translate customer requirements into scalable, high-value architectures and transformation roadmaps.

• Disseminate knowledge through training, mentoring, and internal collaboration with OpCos and KBC.

• Contribute to Yokogawa’s purpose of co-innovating tomorrow through data-driven, sustainable impact.

What You Bring

• ~10 years’ experience in consulting, digital transformation, or enterprise solutions within the energy, petrochemical, or decarbonization sectors.

• A proven track record in strategic business development, solution design, and stakeholder engagement.

• Deep understanding of industrial operations, digital platforms, and the energy transition landscape.

• Experience managing large or complex consulting projects with cross-functional teams.

• Collaborative mindset, systems thinking, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

• A desire to connect purpose and technology

What You’ll Get in Return

• Visibility and Influence: You’ll work directly with executive-level stakeholders in energy and industry — influencing digital strategies and sustainability agendas at global scale.

• Strategic Ownership: Rather than following frameworks, you’ll shape them

• Continuous Learning: you’ll expand your domain knowledge through real-world innovation projects — from hydrogen and decarbonization to AI-enabled operations.

• Partnership and Collaboration: Every project connects you with colleagues from OpCos, KBC, and partner firms worldwide. You’ll experience first-hand how co-innovation drives impact — blending technical precision with creative problem solving.

Not just a job, but a career

Yokogawa, award winner for ‘Best Asset Monitoring Technology’ and ‘Best Digital Twin Technology’ at the HP Awards, is a leading provider of industrial automation, test and measurement, information systems and industrial services in several industries. 

Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition, (bio)technology, artificial intelligence, industrial cybersecurity, etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

About the Team
Our 18,000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission, to "co-innovate tomorrow". We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our planet. In return, we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive culture

Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.  We will actively recruit, develop, and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience, knowledge, thinking styles, perspective, cultural background, and socioeconomic status.  We will not discriminate based on race, skin color, age, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, belief, political opinion, nationality, ethnicity, place of origin, disability, family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong, contribute, succeed, and demonstrate their full potential.

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