Business Development Director-Validation

About Us

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients.

Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper‑converting industries.

By blending people‑centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose‑driven growth, Barry‑Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1,500 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world‑class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.

When you join Design Group as a Client Development Lead, Validation and Regulatory Compliance, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems. You will join our Regulatory Compliance Practice and partner with seasoned leaders, technical specialists, and subject matter experts to deliver the highest quality solutions to our clients with consistency and accuracy.

You’ll work individually and in teams to support capital projects and implement solutions for our clients. Together, you will help our clients make critical changes to improve their performance and realize their most important goals.

As the Client Development Lead, Validation and Regulatory Compliance, you will be responsible for leveraging your past professional experiences, along with Design Group’s engineering offering, to expand our presence in the Life Science market sector in the Southern California area. The client development lead will lead a Regulatory Compliance Validation team for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device manufacturing projects for our clients.

We seek a passionate, high‑achieving professional who thrives in a fast‑paced, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. A leader, mentor, coach with infectious enthusiasm who lifts others to his/her level and exhibits uncompromising dedication to client welfare. A subject matter expert who fully understands validation and regulatory compliance and can work with clients to develop diverse solutions to their problems. They also need to meet client needs and guide them in industry‑leading best practices for complex projects that require these scope services.

Actively be involved in the execution and leading of all phases of projects.

• Lead with an uplifting entrepreneurial spirit
• Inspire excellence in all aspects of performance and project execution
• Display enthusiasm and excitement for client projects that lifts project teams to high levels of job satisfaction
• Consistently seek new value‑add opportunities for clients and Design Group
• Meet with clients to define the program requirements based on an understanding of the client's production process flow and space environmental needs derived from meetings with the client and the review of any documentation…