The job in short
Business development director.
Marketing
Details
- Found
- 23 d ago · posted 2026-08-24
- Location as listed
- Falls Church, Virginia, United States
- Role
- Executive / Director
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
BAE Systems is hiring a Director II of Business Development to support our Combat Mission Systems (CMS) business. The Director will support the Weapon Systems product line within the CMS business in the Platforms & Services Segment. The Director will serve as a key member on the Weapon Systems business' Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
Responsibilities:
• Identify and qualify new business opportunities that provide ample room for the business to grow at a rate that matches or exceeds its addressable market growth.
• Oversee and manage all business winning activities for the Weapon Systems product line, from opportunity identification and qualification to full capture and proposal submittal.
• Ensure all business winning efforts are properly resourced with talent, time, and funding.
• Ensure lifecycle management is conducted to improve probability of winning new and follow-on business.
• Ensure that capture teams are properly resourced, trained, and following industry best practices.
• Manage a multimillion-dollar annual budget to support new business activities including bids, proposal development, marketing, and investment.
• Lead a team of business development professionals who support all business winning activity for Naval Guns, Launchers, and Submarine programs, plus future production related to precision guided munitions and directed energy.
• Ensure each team member is learning continuously from both experience and training.
• Work collaboratively with others in and out of the BD functional area.
• Ensure each team member maintains strong awareness of his / her markets, customers, competitors, and partners.
• Serve as an exemplary role model for the team and within the Weapon Systems senior leader team.
• Provide updates on the team’s efforts and progress to functional and line leaders.
• Represent the lead “voice” of the customer while advising the business on key decisions and strategic choices.
• Support Weapon Systems’ efforts to maintain strong customer relationships that enable collaboration.
• Maintain awareness of all current and emerging customer and market changes and keep Weapon Systems and CMS stakeholders apprised of these.
• Support the Weapon Systems VP/GM with the development of strategy based on existing and emerging market changes.
• Support the VP/GM in briefing senior internal leaders on new business progress and activities.
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