Business Development Director

Business Development Director

We are looking for a highly motivated mid-senior level experienced Business Development Director to join our dynamic team. This role will be instrumental in driving sales growth and building relationships with key clients both domestically and internationally. The successful candidate will have a track record of closing contracts with USG agencies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, qualify, shape, negotiate and close new business opportunities.
• Partner with engineering and program management teams to grow existing accounts.
• Support the optimization of sales processes to improve overall efficiency and drive revenue growth.
• Deliver high-quality outcomes to our government and commercial partners.
• Spearhead proposals, including RFIs, RFPs, white papers, and unsolicited concept papers.
• Maintain situational awareness of acquisition pathways (e.g., OTAs, MTA, SBIR/STTR, IDIQ) and upcoming solicitations.

Qualifications (preferred):

• 5-10 years of Business Development experience. Ideally Defense-Technology direct growth and BD experience with U.S. Department of War.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time.
• Demonstrated knowledge of maritime customers, existing programs, and how Quartermaster can drive outcomes for government and commercial partners.
• Experience building or scaling a new business development function.
• Are comfortable selling complex, technical systems to operational customers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with people across the globe in various timezones.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and ability to brief company executives and senior government officials.
• Prior experience working as resource sponsor and/or in program offices (PAE, PEO, or PMWs) viewed as highly favorable.
• Prior military or government national security experience viewed favorably.
• MBA viewed favorably.
• Active security clearance