Business Development Account Executive

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Full Time Mission Support Herndon, VA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Work Location: Herndon, VA

Clearance: Top Secret

Pay:$160,000 - $180,000

Patriot Group International LLC (PGI) is seeking an accomplished Business Development Account Executive to lead and scale business development across the cleared facility and cloud provider ecosystem.

PGI is a global mission support service provider with expeditionary capabilities, providing services to select clients within the intelligence, defense, and private sectors. It is a veteran-owned and operated company with experience performing in over 50 countries, including austere and high-threat environments. It offers provides its clients an unrivaled hybrid of specialized services by combining the disciplines of security and risk management with an unequaled special operations and intelligence perspective.

The firm has been recognized multiple times as the Best Place to Work among large employers by Virginia Business Magazine.

This is a new mid-management role, responsible for helping to develop the processes and discipline to identify and shape opportunities in a growing market with a quickly evolving threat landscape. The account executive will report directly to the Vice President of Business Development and work closely with the other account executives and relevant contract execution teams. This person will have a high degree of responsibility and autonomy in creating and implementing the processes needed to build out their assigned market.

This is a growth position for someone who wants to shape how PGI pursues and wins its most important business. Critical infrastructure physical security protection represents the company's highest priority growth vector, and this role will help lead all opportunity pursuits.

The ideal candidate has done this before, has relationships to leverage, and has the capability and motivation to be a valuable team member capable of building and sustaining growth within their market domain.

The Business Development Account Executive will be responsible for the following:

Business Development & Pipeline Development

• Own a single, accurate, and well-qualified pipeline in the cleared facility and cloud provider ecosystem.
• Own and run the gate review process and meetings on the pursuits within their domain.
• Identify and pursue relevant contract vehicles and/or commercial agreements with cloud and colocation providers, that create scalable, multi-program growth across their market.

Relationships & Networking

• Implement the account penetration strategy for the most strategically important targets within their area of responsibility, developing and converting leads they or others in the firm identify.
• Represent the company in data center and critical infrastructure industry groups and conferences as an attendee and speaker.
• Maintain a current view of the competitive landscape across the cleared facility and cloud provider ecosystem, including incumbent positions, recompete timelines, budget cycles, and emerging requirements.
• Track data center and cloud provider construction, expansion, and security upgrade cycles as a leading indicator of new opportunity generation.
• Help identify additional critical infrastructure facilities and markets for corporate expansion.
• Provide the VP of Business Development and Chief Strategy Officer with regular strategic briefings on pipeline health, market trends, competitive positioning, and resourcing needs.
• Identify capability gaps and adjacent market opportunities, including converged…