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New Business Development Manager



September 01, 2012

S2B Marketing Research Centre created a Business Development Position and employs a Dutch Professional for Business Development Manager

Mr Arno Merman from Netherlands was recently appointed to the newly created position of Business Development Manager. Acquiring new projects, further developing the research centre and contact with external partners is now part of his day-to-day business. As Business Development Manager he will focus on call for proposals and tenders in both Germany and Europe, organising collaborating events with partners and the professional development of the research centre staff. Working on the further development of the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre and securing its future.

In the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre now for more than two years, Arno Meerman has held multiple positions within the office. Following his semester abroad as Dutch exchange student at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, he joined the team through an internship working on a European study on the cooperation between Higher Education Institutions and Public and Private Organisations in Europe, growing into the position of Data and Analysis manager, resulting in a co-authorship of "The state of European University-Business Cooperation" (http://www.ub-cooperation.eu). Subsequently he was the conference manager of the 2012 Entrepreneurial Universities Conference in Münster last year, the largest Science-to-Business Marketing conference so far in its series.

We look very much forward of Arno his contributions to the research centre in his position as Business Development Manager.