Business Development Director

Bring Your Passion for Space! 

Redwire is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical, and sustainable infrastructure for future generations. 

Redwire Space Luxembourg, a Redwire business unit, is specialized in developing robotic systems and mechanisms for next generation space economy of in-space satellite servicing, Active Debris Removal, lunar surface operations and commercial space stations.  

Our team in Luxembourg grows fast and offering excellent career opportunities. We are looking for a results-oriented, talented, and driven individuals. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with an international multi-functional team to allow the rapidly evolving space market to access truly world-changing new capability. 

In Luxembourg, our team works at the intersection of European and American commercial space industry space cluster that makes it rich in innovation, heritage, and diversity. A warm welcome awaits you from community of diverse teams of engineers who are from various multicultural and ethnic backgrounds, they are open to share their breadth and depth of experience. We offer a competitive salary, company shares, a complementary health insurance and tailor-made training plan and many other development training programs to accelerate your professional development. 

Your Skills

The Business Development Director is responsible for leading the day-to-day identification, maturation, and closure of Redwire Space Europe space robotics opportunities. This role requires daily interaction with the Managing Director, the engineering team, and the program management organization. The Business Development Director will be responsible for developing and maintaining new customer relationships with an eye on existing wider Redwire connection to identify opportunities for deeper strategic teaming. The ideal candidate will have a technical background to ensure understanding of, and compliance with, customer requirements.  Such a candidate will also be a passionate storyteller with strong empathic skills, ensuring that any proposed solutions will be directly relevant to a real customer need. The Business Development Director will leverage connections across the industry to help foster new business opportunities for Redwire Space Europe. Success in this position is essential for our business because it represents the direct connection between the customer and the products that we are building. Primarily this position aims to boost Redwire Space Europe sales in regions mostly in Europe. However, candidates with experience and ability to help promote sales of Redwire US products outside of the USA will be favourably received.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Generate new, high-volume customers for space-optimised robotic arms and electro-mechanical products

• Identify and obtain all internal and external materials needed to close a customer sale

• Build on existing European and Asian Redwire customer relationships to increase sales of US products.

• Manage relationships, lead negotiations, and generate sales with several key customers

• Oversee CRM database

• Manage Sales Engineers to deliver to customer necessary sales documents

• Coordinate unique sales strategy with the General Manager and Made In Space Europe executives

• Generate a master schedule for customer sales and regularly report this to the General Manager and the engineering team

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, MBA or any other related degree

• Held a sales role in the aerospace industry for at least 5 years

• Demonstrated experience working with large international aerospace primes, government agencies, and other aerospace entities.

• Demonstrated experience in closing multi-million sales projects in the space industry within the last 5 years

• Fluency in English

• Excellent written, spoken, and interpersonal skills

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Currently in a sales position

• Experience in US and/or Asian space sectors.

• Fluency in German and/or French languages

• Bachelor’s degree or greater in engineering discipline

• Business degree (master or postgraduate)

• Member of one or more of the following: AIAA, ISU-Alumni, Space Frontier Foundation, SEDS-Alumni, SGC, Secure World Foundation

• Experience writing proposals and participating in contracts with government agencies and private companies

• Extensive experience closing deals in the global aerospace market

Come join us  

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Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration!