
Senior Manager, Business Development - Aviation
- Seattle, WA
- $130,000-150,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support the full sales cycle from initial pitch through contract execution; expect sales cycles as short as 6 months to as long as 24+ months - this person will be responsible for their own pipeline of deals, and will serve as the second chair in complex deals with our Vice President of Aviation leading
- Represent Metropolis at national and local industry events
- Deploy a solutions-based and product-led approach that uncovers pain points of our airport partners and translates them into actionable financial and operating proposals
- Lead or co-lead customer presentations, including discovery sessions and proposal delivery in person and virtually
- Build upon and create new relationships across key stakeholders inside our existing and prospective airport partners to build internal support and advocacy
- Work cross-functionally with our deal desk team on complex underwriting and financial modeling and collaborate with additional internal teams such as marketing, operations, and legal to drive deals forward to execution
- Monitor and manage pipeline development and sales performance metrics in Salesforce CRM - be fully accountable for providing Salesforce inputs to ensure accurate forecasting
- Continuous education on our product and how it operates in the field; plan to spend at least one day per month at one of our airports with our operations team members
- 3+ years in B2B business development and/or sales, which may include expertise in government affairs or commercial development; ideally, experience selling hardware and software solutions, not just one-time product sales.
- Highly analytical and proven experience in financial underwriting and modeling
- Proficient with Salesforce and associated reporting and tools to manage pipeline
- Skilled in managing complex, multi-threaded deals with sales cycles as long as 24+ months
- Creative approach to communicating value propositions across diverse audiences
- Experience working with cross-functional teams throughout a deal cycle, including product, engineering, marketing, operations, legal, and finance
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to travel at least 2x/month
- Experience selling into airports and/or government organizations is preferred
- Experience working in a high-growth, fast-paced tech organization is preferred
- Passion for the aviation industry is a plus!