KONE moves two billion people every day. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, we employ over 60,000 driven professionals in more than 60 countries worldwide joined together by a shared purpose, to shape the future of cities. In 2025, we had annual net sales of EUR 11.2 billion.
KONE has consistently been featured on Forbes list of World's Best Innovative Companies, World's Best Employers & World's Largest Public Companies. At KONE, we believe in teamwork and a work culture where everyone can be who they are. This is exactly what makes us strong and successful.
Why this role?
Business Development Manager (Service) finds new business opportunities, manages complex business development projects, or supports business segments requiring special focus. Business Development Manager may cover several of these responsibility areas or focus on just one.
What will you be doing?
Business Development Manager is responsible for
- Finds new business opportunities to position KONE competitively in the market and according to the short and long-term business goals
- Build strategy and execute especially for NKE growth in all regions by working closer with countries
- Manage complex business development projects, e.g., acquisitions, market entry projects or geographical expansions
- Work closely with Sales and offer Development to improve profitability in low performing segments in regions with clear actions like pricing, offering
- Ensures cross-BL or organization-wide implementation of growth opportunities, e.g., Advanced People Flow (APF) solutions or People Flow planning and consulting
- Drives a turnaround of low business performance in a specific part of business
- Manages complex, large, and difficult analysis, development, or implementation projects
- Ensures utilization of appropriate methods to support own responsibility area, e.g.
- Business planning
- Competitive analysis
- Marketing and communications planning
- Sales capability development and support
- Operations development
- Competence development
- Business benefits realization
- May lead, direct, and develop a team in own responsibility area
- Maintains strong network within and outside of KONE to share best practices and to understand current and future requirements.
- Increase SoM from KA through proactive engagement with KA customers
Are you the one?
- At the minimum Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field e.g., business, economics, finance, engineering.
- Proven track record of consistent success in business performance and development.
- Experience in successful management of complex projects
- Understanding of costs, business principles and risk management
- Knowledge, skills, and experience in qualifying, structuring and negotiating with business partners
- Demonstrated ability to work and communicate with different kinds of stakeholders and to develop relationships in a complex team environment
What’s On Offer
- Career progression in opportunities within a global organization
- Total reward elements that engage and motivate our employees and help us make KONE a great place to work
- Comprehensive learning and development programs covering a wide range of professional skills
- You are surrounded by fun colleagues and a lively working environment. The best part is all leaders are great and open-minded
To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our Talent and Culture team will review your application and will be in contact with additional information accordingly.
In the meantime, feel free to browse our website for additional information on our company, brands and culture – KONE Corporation.
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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, or a relevant field
- Proven track record of consistent success in business performance and development
- Experience managing complex projects successfully
- Understanding of costs, business principles, and risk management
- Knowledge and experience qualifying, structuring, and negotiating with business partners
- Ability to communicate with diverse stakeholders and develop relationships in complex team environments
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
