Business Development Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead Generation: Identify, classify, and qualify new opportunities, both from inbound inquiries and outbound prospecting.
• Sales: Connect with prospective and existing customers to provide information about Orbitworks’ satellite manufacturing and operational services, understand their objectives, and evaluate how we can support them.
• Proposal Development: Formulate tailored proposals for customers, clearly articulating Orbitworks’ value proposition.
• Contracting: Once a proposal is accepted, draft and negotiate contracts, ensuring alignment with both customer needs and Orbitworks’ objectives.
• Account Management: Maintain strong relationships with customers throughout program lifecycles, offering support to ensure mission success and uncovering new business opportunities.
• Product Development Support: Provide market insights and feedback to inform the development of future capabilities, products, and services that address customer needs.

Requirements

• Understanding or eagerness to learn more about the new space ecosystem, including satellites and/or downstream applications.
• 2+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, or sales, ideally in the aerospace or GIS fields, with a demonstrable track record of success in the MENA region and beyond.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with prior exposure to or experience in the MENA region.
• A solutions-oriented mindset with a passion for turning customer needs into actionable opportunities.
• Ability to represent Orbitworks’ values and vision to customers, partners, and at industry and government events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling within the satellite services or geospatial analytics markets.
• Familiarity with government contracting or public-private partnership models.

About the Company

Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.

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