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Defense Business Development Manager

HP
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Manager
2 weeks ago
Business DevelopmentSalesStrategic PlanningRelationship BuildingMarket IntelligenceChannel Management
Free

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Job Summary

  • The Business Development Manager (BDM) – Defense is a pure sales role with a strong strategic orientation, created to capture and scale the Defense vertical.
  • The BDM acts as a revenue focused growth catalyst, ensuring HP’s Defense value proposition is positioned early, credibly, and effectively with the right decision makers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own Defense specific business development in Middle East, from opportunity identification to deal shaping.
  • Drive qualified pipeline creation aligned with Defense TAM.
  • Support and accelerate complex, multi year Defense sales cycles, working alongside account teams.
  • Establish and maintain a high value Defense network including senior decision makers in public Defense institutions and ministries, executives in private Defense companies, and leaders within Defense primes and system integrators.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, engaging customers on strategic topics such as digital sovereignty, secure and resilient supply chains, cybersecurity, compliance, and long term platform stability.
  • Represent HP with credibility and consistency across Defense forums, institutional meetings, and industry events.
  • Build strong commercial relationships with system integrators, ISVs, OEMs, and strategic partners critical to Defense programs.
  • Enable HP’s inclusion in multi vendor Defense solutions, positioning HP as a core technology component.
  • Drive joint value positioning and co selling opportunities with ecosystem partners.
  • Own Defense market intelligence for Middle East: map key public and private stakeholders, track programs, funding cycles, and investment priorities.
  • Continuously refine TAM evolution and opportunity prioritization.
  • Identify and activate Defense SMB growth opportunities, including small and mid sized Defense contractors and specialized technology, engineering, and cybersecurity firms.

Qualifications

  • Experience in defense business development or sales.
  • Ability to build and maintain a high value defense network.
  • Strong strategic orientation.
  • Knowledge of defense ecosystem and system integrators.
  • Familiarity with defense certifications and compliance (ENS, TEMPEST, ANSI).

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