K

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Director of New Business Development

Account ExecutiveConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in USA$200k - $225k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Eight or more years of successful new business development, solution selling, or technical sales experience in IVD, diagnostics, life sciences, or medical technology.
  • Demonstrated record of opening new accounts, creating opportunities, and closing complex, high-value business with long sales cycles.
  • Experience selling contract design, product development, engineering, manufacturing, or integrated technology solutions.
  • Demonstrated success understanding customer product and business needs to coordinate technical, operational, and commercial resources to build a solution.
  • Experience with executive prospecting, discovery, proposal development, negotiation, and CRM-based pipeline management.
  • Ability to travel frequently throughout North America and internationally as business needs require.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a focused new-business territory plan for North America, including priority verticals, target accounts, buying centers, hypotheses, and engagement strategies.
  • Build a qualified pipeline through direct prospecting, industry networks, referrals, events, marketing programs, ecosystem partners, and coordinated Molex introductions.
  • Create access to senior decision makers across R&D, product development, operations, procurement, business leadership, and executive management.
  • Use customer and market intelligence to identify unmet needs, emerging technologies, outsourcing triggers, and new product or platform opportunities.
  • Translate customer needs into differentiated value propositions spanning design, engineering, development, tooling, manufacturing, supply chain, electronics, and lifecycle support.
  • Lead discovery, qualification, stakeholder mapping, competitive positioning, and pursuit strategy.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to develop proposals, business cases, technical concepts, timelines, and commercial offers.
  • Lead customer presentations and negotiations through new business award and structured transition to account and execution teams.
  • Maintain CRM activity, pipeline stages, next actions, probability, value, timing, and forecast updates.
  • Partner with Marketing on campaigns, webinars, points of view, conferences, content, and lead-nurture programs that support target-account penetration.
  • Provide actionable intelligence on competitors, customer investments, technology trends, and market adjacencies.
  • Operate with high ownership, urgency, resilience, and disciplined prioritization.
  • Build internal followership without formal authority and create clarity across complex pursuit teams.
  • Qualify opportunities rigorously and disengage when strategic fit, value, access, or probability is insufficient.
  • Ensure a clean commercial handoff after award, including commitments, assumptions, risks, relationships, and growth hypotheses.
  • Maintain a high-quality pipeline concentrated on strategically relevant target accounts and opportunities.
  • Gain consistent access to new buying centers and senior decision makers.
  • Secure profitable new business awards with strong strategic fit and credible paths to expansion.
  • Improve conversion through disciplined qualification, pursuit planning, and cross-functional engagement.
  • Ensure clean transition of awarded programs to account and execution teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Advanced degree or technical training in engineering, diagnostics, biotechnology, or business.
  • Existing network within North American IVD, laboratory, bioprocessing, or life sciences companies.
  • Experience selling solutions involving plastic disposables, microfluidics, fluid management, injection molding, automation, electronics, or connected devices.
  • Experience developing opportunities from early concept through design transfer and commercial manufacturing.
  • Experience using account-based marketing, social selling, industry events, and ecosystem partnerships to generate demand.
  • Experience with Salesforce, CPQ, and structured sales methodologies.

About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, KS
Founded
1940

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Koch Industries

See more jobs