Business Development Manager

Loft Orbital

Posted 30+ days ago

Experience

3 - 8 Years

Education

Any Graduation

Nationality

Any Nationality

Gender

Not Mentioned

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

About the Role:
  • Build and manage a pipeline of new business opportunities across priority markets and customers.
  • Proactively engage prospective customers through outreach, networking, and inbound leads.
  • Lead and support customer conversations to understand needs, priorities, and decision-making processes.
  • Own and drive proposal development, coordinating inputs across engineering, finance, and operations.
  • Prepare customer-facing materials, including proposals, presentations, and commercial summaries.
  • Support contract discussions and commercial negotiations alongside leadership.
  • Maintain ongoing relationships with customers and partners, identifying upsell and follow-on opportunities.
  • Track opportunities, pipeline status, and customer interactions using internal tools.
  • Monitor market activity, competitors, and customer trends to inform BD strategy.
  • Represent Orbitworks in meetings, events, and external discussions as needed.

Desired Candidate Profile

Must Haves:
  • 3-6 years of experience in business development, sales, partnerships, or commercial roles.
  • Proven ability to build relationships and progress opportunities from early discussions through to closure.
  • Experience working on proposals, bids, or RFPs and coordinating inputs from multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong commercial judgement and ability to prioritise opportunities.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with evolving processes.
  • Clear, confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Ability to engage with technical teams and translate customer needs into commercial opportunities.
  • Organised, detail-oriented, and reliable with strong follow-through.
  • Experience working with international customers or cross-cultural teams.
  • Willingness to travel occasionally as needed.
Nice to Haves:
  • Experience in aerospace, space, defence, or advanced technology sectors.
  • Exposure to government or enterprise customers.
  • Familiarity with CRM tools and structured pipeline management.

Company Industry

Department / Functional Area

Keywords

  • Business Development Manager

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Loft Orbital

Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.

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