[Remote] Business Development Director- (Renewable Energy) Fully Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bureau Veritas is a company that specializes in technical advisory services, and they are seeking a Director of Business Development for their Renewables Technical Advisory division. This role involves leading commercial strategy, business development, and sales for engineering and scientific advisory services in the renewable energy sector, focusing on solar, wind, storage, and hybrid projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead Sales Strategy and Growth: Develop and execute aggressive North American business development and sales strategies for renewables technical advisory services and meet revenue, growth, and profitability goals
• Develop and Manage Client Relationships: Build and sustain senior-level relationships with developers, operators, utilities, lenders, investors, and other industry stakeholders. Drive repeat business and cross-selling opportunities
• Lead and Develop Business Development Teams: Manage, mentor, and expand a high-performing Americas business development team and strengthen coordination with global sales counterparts
• Monitor Market and Industry Developments: Track regulatory, technical, scientific, and engineering trends in renewable energy and translate insights into strategic positioning and service development
• Lead Proposal Development and Major Pursuits: Direct the creation of competitive engineering and scientific proposals, scopes of work, RFP responses, pricing inputs, and presentations. Lead contract negotiations and major deal closures
• Maintain Proposal Standards and Document Control: Oversee standardized proposal templates, scope libraries, version control processes, and SharePoint or Teams repositories to ensure accuracy and efficiency
• Manage CRM and Pipeline Processes: Implement and maintain lead tracking, opportunity management, pipeline reporting, and business development workflow systems in alignment with corporate requirements and regularized reporting
• Coordinate with Technical and Internal Teams: Collaborate with technical, scientific, engineering, finance, and operations teams to ensure accurate technical scoping, competitive pricing, and feasibility of client commitments. Collaborate with international colleagues to ensure market winning prices and the correct mix of staff to ensure profitability on each project
• Improve Customer Experience and Service Quality: Gather and evaluate client feedback and performance data to improve advisory offerings, strengthen client satisfaction, and guide service evolution
• Support Corporate Integration and Process Alignment: Ensure business development practices align with Bureau Veritas procedures and support global consistency while maintaining agility for client delivery

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or science
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in renewable energy sales, with at least 5 years in a leadership position focused on renewable energy technical advisory services
• Deep knowledge of the renewable energy sector, NAM, LATAM and global
• Demonstrated success in driving renewables engineering and scientific technical advisory sales and revenue growth
• Strong leadership and people management skills and experience building and managing high-performing teams
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex scientific, engineering, and technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong negotiation skills and experience working with senior-level clients
• Deep understanding of the regulatory, technical, engineering, scientific, and financial aspects of renewables projects
• Strong business acumen in budgeting, forecasting, project management, proposal development, and risk evaluation
• Demonstrated ability to design or improve business development workflows, documentation systems, and internal governance processes
• Master's degree preferred

Company Overview

• Bureau Veritas is a world leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Ratingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.7layers.com/.

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