Posted 3 months ago
Business Development Executive - Americas
@ SEA Ltd
Ottawa, Ontario
Overview
SEA Ltd is hiring a Business Development Executive for the Americas, based in Ottawa and covering Canada and South America. The role defines and delivers a regional growth strategy, builds a qualified opportunity pipeline and meets allocated order intake targets. The posting states a salary of up to CA$200k depending on experience.
Responsibilities:
- Define and deliver a regional growth strategy for Canada and South America
- Build and maintain a qualified pipeline of opportunities
- Develop and own key stakeholder relationships across the region
- Act as voice of the customer to inform product roadmaps
Requirements summary:
- Experience in business development or sales of defence or complex products
- Strong relationship-building with government and industry stakeholders
- Ability to achieve order intake targets
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Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-11
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-26
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-26
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Business development |
| Travel | air: moderate · ground: minimal |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Retirement plan, Performance bonus |
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SEA Ltd
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
About The Role
SEA is a successful and growing mid-tier company specialising in the design, development, and manufacture of proprietary maritime defence products for domestic and international customers.
SEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cohort PLC, and operates as an independent, agile, and responsive international business, with a subsidiary in Canada and customers in the UK, Europe, Far East, The Americas, and Australasia.
The primary purpose of the Business Development Executive - Americas (Canada & South America) will be to develop and grow SEA's defence business across Canada and South America in line with the company business strategy.
Based in Ottawa, Canada and reporting directly to the Business Development Director, the role will define and deliver a regional growth strategy, build and maintain a qualified pipeline of opportunities, develop key stakeholder relationships and ultimately achieve the allocated order intake targets for the Americas region, focused on Canada and South America.
The role will be responsible for raising SEA's profile across the region, identifying and capturing new business opportunities and ensuring the voice of the customer informs SEA's business strategy, product development and business winning activities..
The salary for this role is up to CA$200k, depending on experience.
What you'll be doing
Regional Growth Strategy: Define, own and deliver a strategy to grow business for Canada and South America in line with the company’s business strategy.
Sales Order Intake: Achieve the allocated order intake target for the region and support the achievement of the overall company order intake target.
Key Relationship Management: Develop and own stakeholder relationships throughout Canada and South America to support the achievement of sustainable regional growth.
Voice of the Customer: Act as the voice of the customer to inform and influence company road maps and feed directly into Mission Roadmaps to influence product development.
About our company
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we’re always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
- Medical and dental benefits.
- RRSP matching.
- 20 days annual vacation.
- Half day Fridays.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- All Staff bonus
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you’d like to know more, please give Dave from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on +44 333 041 4172. Or reach out to us on [email protected]
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