Business Development Executive - Americas

SEA Canada

Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in business development or sales, preferably in defence or related industries.
  • Proven track record of achieving sales targets in the Americas region, particularly Canada and South America.
  • Strong understanding of the defence market and customer needs in the specified regions.
  • Excellent relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Ability to influence product development through customer insights and feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement a comprehensive growth strategy for SEA's defence business in Canada and South America.
  • Achieve specified sales order intake targets while contributing to overall company performance.
  • Build and nurture key relationships with stakeholders across the Americas region.
  • Gather and articulate customer feedback to guide strategic business decisions.
  • Raise SEA's profile and identify new business opportunities across the region.

Benefits

  • Medical and dental benefits.
  • RRSP matching.
  • 20 days annual vacation.
  • Half day Fridays.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • All Staff bonus.
Full Job Description
About The Role

The primary purpose of the Business Development Executive - Americas (Canada & South America) will be to develop and grow SEA's defence business across Canada and South America in line with the company business strategy.

Based in Ottawa, Canada and reporting directly to the Business Development Director, the role will define and deliver a regional growth strategy, build and maintain a qualified pipeline of opportunities, develop key stakeholder relationships and ultimately achieve the allocated order intake targets for the Americas region, focused on Canada and South America.

The role will be responsible for raising SEA's profile across the region, identifying and capturing new business opportunities and ensuring the voice of the customer informs SEA's business strategy, product development and business winning activities..

The salary for this role is up to CA$200k, depending on experience.

What you'll be doing
  • Regional Growth Strategy: Define, own and deliver a strategy to grow business for Canada and South America in line with the company's business strategy.
  • Sales Order Intake: Achieve the allocated order intake target for the region and support the achievement of the overall company order intake target.
  • Key Relationship Management: Develop and own stakeholder relationships throughout Canada and South America to support the achievement of sustainable regional growth.
  • Voice of the Customer: Act as the voice of the customer to inform and influence company road maps and feed directly into Mission Roadmaps to influence product development.

What we offer

At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we're always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:

  • Medical and dental benefits.
  • RRSP matching.
  • 20 days annual vacation.
  • Half day Fridays.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • All Staff bonus

Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.

If you'd like to know more, please give Dave from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on [redacted]. Or reach out to us on [email protected]

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