Director, Navy Business Development
Director, Navy Business Development
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Job Description
The Director Navy Business Development will be responsible for contributing to growing Seaspan Shipyards business by finding new opportunities in target market segments (specifically the Royal Canadian Navy and other navies) and then developing and leading the capture strategy and plans for those opportunities. Key to this role will be a strategic approach to understanding the breadth and complexity of our customers needs and leading the development of strategies and solutions to meet those needs both technical and non-technical. Working as part of the broader multi-disciplinary Seaspan team this role will require direct leadership of small capture teams growing to larger temporary teams during proposal activity and collaborative interfaces to many other departments and teams within Seaspan.
This role is ideally based in Ottawa but we are open to candidates based in Vancouver.
Note: This position qualifies for an optional hybrid work schedule after 90 days of onsite work and onboarding. Employee will be subject to the terms of the Flexible Work Policy Agreement
What youll do
- Drives future growth for the company through disciplined but creative business development.
- Leads activities to find and develop opportunities both with new potential customers and with existing customers.
- Provides leadership to capture teams and proposal teams.
- Maintains key business development contacts with current and potential customers.
- Leads and drive opportunities through the Seaspan business development process and lifecycle from opportunity identification through to contract award including approval gates between each phase.
- Develop maintain and implement full capture strategies and plans for each approved opportunity.
- Builds and lead capture teams and proposal teams as required for each approved opportunity.
- Interfaces with other departments and teams in the Seaspan organization to achieve objectives in a manner aligned with overall Seaspan priorities strategies and processes.
- Provides leadership creativity and drive to find solutions that meet customer needs that are acceptable to Seaspan.
What youll bring
- 10 years of professional industry experience advancing complex new business development strategies and bid proposals in the shipbuilding industry or in a complex defence aerospace or systems development manufacturing or construction industry.
- Experience with Canadian Government procurement strongly preferred
- Experience with Royal Canadian Navy procurement preferred.
- University degree in a relevant area preferred.
- Proven track record of identifying and closing on new business opportunities in government procurement markets.
- Experience leading and closing complex opportunities with contract values over $5M and ideally over $50M.
- Broad understanding of technical programmatic financial and commercial aspects of complex deals.
- Experience with forming and maintaining strategic industry partnerships and supplier arrangements as part of a capture strategy.
- This job is both strategic and tactical and requires substantial leadership in market/customer strategy and opportunity capture.
- Multi-faceted leadership skills applicable to direct leadership roles and influential leadership roles.
- Ability to work in a highly flexible and fluid environment and maintain calm and rational thinking and reasoning at all times.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders and the ability to respond to stakeholder needs strategically and tactfully.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills superior oral and written capabilities including the ability to build professional relationships with government and industry partners.
- Skilled at advocacy influence and persuasion with the able to convince others to act on information or recommendations based on compelling logic or common best interests.
- Knowledge of complex government markets.
- Strong knowledge and expertise with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint Word Project and Excel).
- Self-starter with good organizational skills who can work both independently and as a member of a team.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with customers partners suppliers and within Seaspan.
Why youll love working here
- This is a full-time permanent position. With multiple operations and long-term projects Seaspan employees enjoy job stability as we look ahead to build ships for decades to come.
- In addition to an annual bonus and pension plan matching this role provides you a very competitive salary in line with the successful candidates experience.
- We also provide the best-in-class health and wellness benefits package for this position including things such as extended health care (i.e. paramedical services for massage therapy speech therapy mental health coverage physiotherapy and more) dental care vision care life insurance medical leave coverage parental leave coverage childcare benefit partnership $500 personal spending account and an Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP).
The estimated salary for this position is $184500 - $225500. In determining final salary Seaspan considers many factors including the successful Candidates skillset and experience as well as position location and internal equity. The final base salary offer will be at the Companys sole discretion and presented as part of a competitive total compensation package.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
