Business Development Account Executive

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Herndon, VA, USA
In-Office
180K-200K Annually
Mid level
Defense • Defense Technology
The Role
Lead business development across cleared facilities and cloud provider markets. Own pipeline development, gate reviews, account penetration, contract vehicle identification, competitive intelligence, and opportunity pursuits. Build strategic relationships with cloud, colocation, critical infrastructure, and government security stakeholders; represent PGI at industry events; brief leadership on market trends, pipeline health, competitive positioning, and growth opportunities.
Summary Generated by Built In

Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Work Location: Herndon, VA

Clearance: Top Secret 

Pay: $180,000-$200,000


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.

Market Intelligence & Competitive Analysis

  • 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 physical and technical security offerings, and translate them into prioritized growth targets.
  • Other duties as assigned.


Required Qualifications:

  • Working knowledge of cloud provider and colocation operator security procurement, including the organizational structures that govern physical security decisions in those environments.
  • Four or more years of progressive business development, capture, or program leadership experience within the critical infrastructure physical security space. 
  • Demonstrated experience managing a growth pipeline and leading opportunity pursuits, including identifying emerging requirements, shaping opportunities through client engagement, positioning your firm, and helping to lead proposal development. 
  • Established relationships within the critical infrastructure physical security space. 
  • Strong interpersonal and executive communication skills with the range to engage credibly with commercial security directors and hyperscaler infrastructure leads.


Required Security Clearance:

  • Active Top Secret


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Existing relationships with physical security or procurement teams at cloud providers or colocation operators holding government-cleared facility contracts.
  • Existing relationships within DHS, DOE national labs, DOD installation security, or Intelligence Community adjacent critical infrastructure programs.
  • APMP, Shipley, or capture management certification


DISCLAIMER:
 Patriot Group International LLC. is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer – Veteran, Disability. PGI provides equal employment opportunities for all persons, in all facets of employment. PGI maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks.
 
 If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and need a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, please contact us on our home page.

 

http://patriotgroupinternational.com/

Skills Required

  • Working knowledge of cloud provider and colocation operator security procurement, including organizational structures governing physical security decisions
  • Four or more years of progressive business development, capture, or program leadership experience in critical infrastructure physical security
  • Demonstrated experience managing growth pipelines and leading opportunity pursuits, including requirement shaping, client engagement, positioning, and proposal development
  • Established relationships within the critical infrastructure physical security space
  • Strong interpersonal and executive communication skills engaging commercial security directors and hyperscaler infrastructure leads
  • Active Top Secret security clearance
  • Existing relationships with cloud provider or colocation operator physical security or procurement teams
  • Existing relationships within DHS, DOE national labs, DOD installation security, or Intelligence Community-adjacent critical infrastructure programs
  • APMP, Shipley, or capture management certification
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The Company
HQ: Warrenton, Virginia
356 Employees

What We Do

Patriot Group International Inc. (PGI) is a global mission support service provider with expeditionary capabilities, providing services to select clients within the intelligence, defense, and private sectors. Since 2004, PGI’s personnel have proudly served customers in more than 17 countries, on four continents, including austere and high threat locations. PGI’s commitment to ethical business practices and quality management form the foundation of our mission focused approach to the success of our customers. PGI's leadership team consists of experienced industry professionals with roots in U.S. military special operations and U.S. government intelligence agencies.

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