North American Director of Business Development - Military Veterans
at Amentum
Amentum's fastest growing sector is looking for an experienced sales executive to join the team as Global Director of Business Development. This position's focus will be on solutioning and closing contracts between $10M and $1B. No cold calling. We have averaged over 50% win rates over the last 3 years and seek the a person that can demonstrate similar success. If you have at least 10 years-experience in the Facility Maintenance industry, as a business development director or above, we want to speak to you.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Planning, directing, and controlling all activities related to the capture effort, including accountability of all phases of capture management until contract award. May manage large complex capture efforts.
- Develop a capture plan which includes a description and analysis of the opportunity, customer, competition, team, pursuit/win strategy, pricing strategy, and capture resource needs, with an integrated action/contact plan.
- Focus on customer-oriented solutions required to position the team and maximize probability of win.
- Identify customer's key issues and concerns through direct customer contact leveraging Business Development and Business Area resources.
- Ensure effective and efficient implementation of proven best practices for activities such as strategy workshops/reviews, proposal planning, proposal development/reviews, and proposal production.
- Lead win strategy, competitive assessment, and pricing strategy working sessions and prepares/completes strategic action plans, Return On Investments, and risk assessments.
- Ensure winning technical, management, and price approaches are developed.
- Conducts thorough draft/final Request for Proposal analyses and develops questions for customer.
- Provides guidance to Proposal Manager in development and execution of a Proposal Management Plan, including technical, management, pricing, and past performance/corporate experience.
- Interacts with and provides guidance to Proposal Manager on the entire proposal process to ensure well-written, compliant, and competitive volumes/slides incorporating win themes, discriminators and program insights.
- Support or conduct formal presentations to clients.
- Perform all other position related duties as assigned or requested.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or Marketing. Two years experience in business development or related discipline can be substituted for each year of the four years of college.
- Ten years of business development or capture experience in the Facility Maintenance and Management services arena.
- Over $500,000,000 in submissions of large scale facility maintenance contracts with at least 3 deals over $50M closed in the last 5 years.
- Valid Driver's License
- Ability to travel up to 25%
- Demonstrated expertise and success in leading captures and proposals in the services sector with established relationships with users, key decision makers, and acquisition leads.
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans and Labor Laws Posters.
Chicago, IL
Amentum brings industry-best expertise, processes, and technology to ensure the availability and reliability of our Government and commercial clients’ vital facilities and equipment. We apply our culture of excellence to operate, maintain, and manage your global assets and complex supply chains to meet modern challenges at home and abroad. You get the confidence that comes from a partner with on a century-long heritage of unrelenting dedication to our clients’ missions across the DoD, civilian agencies, and the IC.
We are looking for skilled Veterans interested in continuing your career in aviation, global logistics, IT and Network support, and also unmanned systems.
We currently have positions open nationwide and globally to include: Kuwait, Iraq, and other overseas locations!
Amentum’s skilled workforce lives with outcomes rather than just works on them. Our employees hold the most sought-after certifications in the industry, including Program Management Professional (PMP), IT/Cyber, ITIL, and Professional Scrum Master (PSM). Our teams who maintain and modify vehicles, aircraft, and weapons systems work within disciplined environments certified to AS9001D, ISO 9001:2015, AS9110B, and AS9100C standards.
Whether it’s managing facilities supporting the IC’s classified missions, operating UAVs that protect our soldiers, or maintaining military equipment at remote bases abroad, Amentum has the experience, passion, and commitment to meet your critical needs.
What happens after I apply?
First, you will want to ensure your RecruitMilitary profile is up to date, and you also have the most up to date resume to provide. Once you apply for the role you will be re-directed to complete your employment application on Amentum's career site. Once you complete that application a recruiter will review your skills and qualifications and reach out to you about the role as appropriate.