The Director of Business Development and Sales reports to the Vice President of Growth and is responsible for the day-to-day execution of corporate activities related to Government and Commercial Business Development and Sales.
Responsibilities
- Recruits, directs and oversees BD and Sales Team, including external representatives and contractors
- Utilizes direct experience in leveraging government contracting consortium memberships to grow the
organization. - Utilizes direct experience in seeking, obtaining and creatively capturing contract vehicles, non-GSA
contracts as well as OTAs, cooperative agreements and grants. - Understands, oversees and has signatory authority for all commercial and government contracts.
- Utilizes past experience and relevant contacts in government entities as well Primes to organically grow
the sales pipeline and meet the company’s growth objectives. - Recruits, selects, on-boards, trains, delegates, schedules, mentors, counsels, and disciplines
employees. - Establishes and implements processes, tools, and structures to support the sales organization &
operations. - Works closely and provides feedback to Marketing to establish a most favorable data-driven outcome.
- Utilizes latest in technology and artificial intelligence to shape and enhance performance.
- Implements methods and systems to effectively analyze and monitor the industry, business
environment, and competitors and expand the customer base. - Proposes, coordinates, establishes, and manages the implementation and successful execution of
Department budgets and goals as approved by the CEO. - Oversees the development, documentation, and implementation of sales policies and procedures
including sales compensation, CRM toolset utilization, planning, sales forecasting, proposals, financial
reporting, travel and progress reporting. - Provides hands on management of Direct Sales and Application Engineering sales.
- Responsible to travel as required to drive BD and lead success.
- Works with Engineering and Product Management to aggressively develop and implement product line
strategy including proper alignment of this strategy with sales efforts. - Sets proactive product line strategies by major market segment in accordance with company goals and
objectives. - Monitors and report bookings to forecast.
- Develops, gains approval and implements product pricing and pricing policies to insure uniformity of
pricing and maximized sales and profitability. - Owns the review, approval and management of customer contracts.
Qualifications
- Four year college degree required. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering strongly preferred.
- Acute understanding of Test and Measurement Systems and ability to sell engineering and production
as a service. - A minimum of five to ten years of relevant sales and business development experience in the Test and
Measurement markets. - Experience selling directly into long sales cycle defense customers.
- Experience selling into the DoD test, measurement, data acquisition, and built-to-print
- Candidate must be proficient using MS Office programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Candidate must be proficient in the use of the Salesforce or similar CRM toolsets.
Salary and Benefits
- Competitive Base Salary
- Bonus Compensation
- Profit Sharing
- Vacation
- Sick time compensation
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance Programs
- 401K with a company match
- Expense reimbursement
Send resume to jobs@gsystems.com with the job listing reference: DS-20250128.