Business Development Manager (PPE)

Vacancy: Business Development Manager – RS Safety Solutions (Benelux)

Help build the fastest-growing PPE business within a global powerhouse

At RS Safety Solutions, you step into a unique blend of scale-up energy and global stability. As an independent business unit within RS Components, we combine the freedom to build with the strength of a worldwide organisation — offering more than 1.000.000 products and a base of 36,000 existing customers.

We’re at the very beginning of an exciting growth journey. And you can be one of the key people shaping it.

Why this role stands out

As our Business Development Manager, you get full ownership to drive commercial success across the Benelux. You’ll unlock growth in our existing RS customer base, develop new markets, create propositions, and work closely with a dedicated marketing team eager to support your ideas.

With warm supplier relationships (including training support), our own warehouse and office in Amsterdam, and the freedom to shape your approach, this is the perfect mix of entrepreneurial building and corporate firepower.

What you will do

• Drive growth within existing RS accounts and open new doors across the Benelux region.
• Build and execute strategic business development plans from idea to implementation.
• Work closely with marketing, suppliers, and sales to scale the PPE safety proposition.
• Identify market trends and translate them into new business opportunities and solutions.
• Introduce customers to our wide range of safety products, PPE, and innovative safety technologies.
• Directly influence revenue, visibility, and market position for RS Safety Solutions.

What you bring

• Proven experience in business development or sales, ideally in PPE or a technical/industrial sector.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: strategic thinker with hands-on execution.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Analytical strength and the ability to turn insights into actions.
• Collaborative attitude, paired with ownership and drive.
• Fluent in Dutch and English
• Willingness to travel across the Benelux.

What we offer

A role with autonomy, impact and the opportunity to truly shape our growth. Plus:

• €51,000 – €58,500 annual gross salary (including 8% holiday allowance), depending on experience.
• Bonus scheme.
• 40-hour work week with hybrid flexibility.
• Company car (lease).
• Attractive pension plan.
• 25 vacation days, plus loyalty and RS anniversary days.
• Our own warehouse and office for agility and speed.
• Significant training, learning opportunities and international career development paths.
• A small, entrepreneurial team of 6 within RS Safety Solutions, backed by 80 colleagues in the Benelux and thousands globally.

About RS Safety Solutions

We help organisations create safer, compliant, and more productive workplaces.
Our mission is clear: make safety simple, effective and accessible.

We support thousands of customers with cutting-edge safety products, PPE and smart solutions that protect people and operations.
We’re curious, forward-thinking, and human. And above all: we’re building something new.

Ready to help shape the future of safety in the Benelux?
Join RS Safety Solutions — and grow with us.

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