Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Karman Space & Defense is a leader in the space & defense industry with over 50 years of experience supporting various critical missions. The Business Development team is seeking a Director of Business Development for Tactical Missiles and Integrated Defense Systems, responsible for growth in the TMIDS market and engaging with defense customers. This role involves developing strategies for capturing new opportunities and ensuring customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Interface as primary POC with key customers and stakeholders, understand customer needs and tailor solutions to meet those needs ensuring satisfaction and fostering repeat business
- Communicate directly with customers and stakeholders on consistent basis both in person and remotely to ensure responsiveness and high quality engagement
- Represent Karman at various conferences and industry events
- Lead team to achieve sales growth targets across TMIDS markets
- Develop product and market growth strategies to achieve new opportunities (leads), contacts, proposals, and/or bookings for new programs and customers
- Develop capture strategy including price-to-win (PWin) assessment, competitive intelligence, risk analysis and mitigation, and technical solutions
- Interface with Karman team members including engineering, business development, and operations to develop long-term product roadmap to support various divisions aligned with defense market trends
- Track and monitor sales performance against short and long-term key performance indicators (KPIs) ensuring goals for bookings, revenue, profit margin, and customer satisfaction are exceeded
- Produce and manage CRM data to track sales process from lead to deal and ensure high conversion rate
- Present financial forecasting results to leadership to determine TMIDS market trends, strategy, and customer satisfaction
- Support negotiations with customers on contract pricing and delivery schedules ensuring profitability while maintaining competitive pricing strategies in line with market conditions and internal costs
Skills
- Bachelor's degree, advanced degree is a plus
- 7+ years of experience in aerospace, munitions, and/or defense industry
- Demonstrated success in business development, sales, program management, operations, and/or engineering for defense related products and systems
- Strong interpersonal, communications, and negotiating skills
- Secret or higher clearance
- 10+ years of experience in aerospace, munitions, and/or defense industry
- 5+ years of experience in propulsion and/or energetics
- Experience working with defense prime contractors and government customers including U.S. Government Labs and U.S. DoD
- Experience with CRM and financial forecasting tools
- Ability to easily present highly technical information to various audience members and sizes
- Ability to travel >25%
- Must be a U.S. citizen
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