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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Senior Director Business Development

Account Executive +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Twelve or more years of progressive business development, strategic account management, or commercial leadership experience in IVD, diagnostics, life sciences, or medical technology.
  • Five or more years of direct people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, talent development, and team building.
  • Demonstrated success growing complex accounts and winning new business in a contract design, development, and manufacturing environment.
  • Experience developing commercial strategies, account plans, qualified pipelines, forecasts, proposals, and negotiation strategies.
  • Experience influencing senior customer and internal stakeholders across commercial, technical, and operational functions.
  • Ability to travel regularly throughout North America and internationally as business needs require.

Responsibilities

  • Own the North American commercial strategy, aligning resources, strategic accounts, target accounts, and growth investments with the global segment strategy.
  • Lead, coach, and develop regional business development directors and strategic account managers, with clear expectations, operating rhythms, and development priorities.
  • Act as a hands-on individual contributor for selected strategic and target accounts by originating opportunities, leading discovery, shaping solutions, building pursuit teams, and advancing opportunities through award.
  • Build, maintain, and execute a personal pipeline of qualified opportunities with clear next actions, value, timing, probability, and conversion plans.
  • Drive profitable growth across existing strategic accounts and selected target accounts, balancing new program wins, share expansion, pricing discipline, and long-term customer value.
  • Serve as executive sponsor for priority customers and strengthen relationships with senior commercial, technical, operations, procurement, and executive stakeholders.
  • Lead strategic account planning and team selling, ensuring differentiated value propositions, customer engagement plans, and cross-functional commitments.
  • Provide executive oversight for complex RFQ and RFP responses, pricing decisions, commercial proposals, contracts, and negotiations.
  • Partner with Marketing, R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, and Commercial Excellence to create competitive solutions and manage risk.
  • Maintain accurate forecasts, pipeline data, account plans, and commercial actions in CRM and communicate performance, risks, and support requirements.
  • Create a culture of accountability, constructive challenge, collaboration, customer focus, and disciplined execution.
  • Model player/coach behavior by combining active customer-facing business development with coaching, resource coordination, and regional leadership.
  • Allocate team capacity toward the highest-value opportunities and intervene early when pursuits or commitments are off track.
  • Develop commercial talent through regular coaching, field engagement, performance feedback, and meaningful growth assignments.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience leading a geographically distributed commercial team across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
  • A strong network across leading IVD, diagnostics, laboratory, bioprocessing, or life sciences companies.
  • Experience with injection molding, connected devices, microfluidics, fluid management, single-use technologies, automation, or high-volume regulated manufacturing.
  • Experience with Salesforce, CRM, CPQ, pricing, proposal management, value-based selling, and strategic negotiation.

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

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