# Business Development Manager (m/f/d)

About 8returns Every online shop has returns. Most treat them as a cost. We help brands turn them into a better customer experience, more exchanges instead of refunds, and less work for their teams. 400+ brands run their returns on 8returns, including Tommy Hilfiger, Reebok, Fielmann and OACE. We're a small team in Berlin where everyone owns their projects end to end, with few meetings, short decision paths and direct feedback. The role You'll own three areas at 8returns: building partnerships, supporting sales, and planning how we enter new markets. You'll work with e-commerce merchants like the ones already on 8returns, have a lot of room to shape your work, and report directly to the founders. What you'll do Build partnerships with tech & logistics partners, shop systems and agencies, and turn them into a real channel for 8returns. Support the sales process: help open doors, prepare conversations and keep deals moving. Plan how we enter new markets, and take that work from first research to the first live partners or customers. Build and run AI agents that research partners and markets and prepare outreach, and keep improving how they work. Own your areas end to end. You dec

- **Id**: 4260060
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/8returns-business-development-manager-mfd>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Berlin, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T11:41:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T15:06:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2587
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: E-commerce Platforms, Supply Chain & Logistics Software

## Company

- **Id**: 669590
- **Name**: 8returns
- **Domain**: 8returns.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/8returns>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: German; Level: Proficiency (C2); Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country
- **Berlin** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T15:06:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 326
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T17:24:57Z

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