Director, U.S. Strategic Growth and Government Affairs

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

? Support development of U.S. growth strategy aligned with Frequentis’ global capabilities and U.S. business priorities.

? Translate government priorities and market developments into actionable business opportunities.

? Support strategic growth initiatives by identifying alignment between company capabilities and government needs.

? Advise and coach business development, account management, and capture teams on customer priorities, agency initiatives, and funding strategies.

? Coordinate government affairs activities across business development, communications, marketing, and operations teams.

? Monitor legislative, regulator, budgetary, and policy development and provide timely analysis and recommendations to leadership team.

? Assess the potential business impact of emerging policy initiatives, funding priorities, and acquisition strategies.

? Identify opportunities and risks arising from government actions, appropriations, and regulatory changes.

? Brief executives on political, budgetary, regulatory, and stakeholder developments.

? Own an integrated senior level government (federal and local) stakeholder engagement plan.

? Build and sustain relationships with government, customer, and industry stakeholders.

? Execute the senior level government stakeholder engagement plan.

? Coordinate meetings, briefings, site visits, demonstrations, and executive engagements with government officials and industry leaders.

? Represent the company at industry associations, conferences, working groups, and public policy forums.

? Develop strategic messaging and narratives that connect Frequentis technologies and capabilities to those stakeholders and are aligned with the strategy, vision, and Frequentis values.

? Help develop corporate narratives, position papers, talking points, and executive presentations.

? Coordinate communications and marketing on thought leadership, media, and events to be in alignment with the strategy and the high-level narrative.

? Support thought leadership initiatives that strengthen the company's reputation and visibility.

? Prepare leadership for meetings with government officials, industry executives, and key decision-makers.

? Ensure consistent messaging and alignment between company strategy and stakeholder engagement efforts.

? Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy, Business, Political Science, Communications, International Relations, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

? 10+ years of experience in government affairs, public policy, strategic engagement, business development, or a related leadership role.

? Demonstrated ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior government, customer, industry, and regulatory stakeholders.

? Strong understanding of U.S. government, policy-making, budgeting, and procurement processes.

? Proven ability to translate legislative, regulatory, funding, and market developments into actionable business strategies.

? Excellent communication and executive advisory skills, including development of strategic messaging, briefings, and stakeholder engagement plans.

? Experience in aviation, defense, public safety, maritime, critical infrastructure, or other mission-critical sectors, with a passion for advancing Frequentis' mission of "For a Safer World."

? U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of the position and the need to support U.S. government customers and programs that are subject to specific contractual, regulatory, or security requirements.

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

Benefits: We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits: • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • Health Savings Accounts • Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting • Employee Life Insurance & AD&D • Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1 • PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave • Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity. • Bonus Plan

"Frequentis stands for safe, open & family-friendly corporate culture, we hire for personality & train skills. People & their values matter to us. That's why I'm not only interested in your skills, but also in your personal passion and commitment."

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