Sales Manager

Esri Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Esri Singapore is seeking a results-driven sales professional to own and grow a strategic Defence portfolio, engaging senior MINDEF and related stakeholders with geospatial solutions. You will translate mission needs into measurable outcomes and lead multi-year pursuits through to award.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in enterprise or public-sector sales, particularly in defence or national security, with a strong network and understanding of procurement cycles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in enterprise or public-sector sales, with defence or national security accounts in Singapore.
• Strong pipeline development through networking and value-led engagement.
• Experience managing multi-year pursuits with long procurement cycles.
• Working understanding of defence acquisition processes and funding governance.
• Ability to translate defence requirements into geospatial tech and services.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow a strategic Defence portfolio across MINDEF, DSTA, SAF Services, formations and units.
• Build trusted relationships with senior Defence stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Identify and secure new business opportunities and expand existing accounts.
• Lead complex pursuits from qualification to capture and contract award.
• Collaborate with technical teams, delivery leaders, partners, and primes to deliver competitive solutions.
• Deliver sales targets through pipeline management, stakeholder engagement, and forecasting.

Skills

Enterprise/public-sector sales

Defence/national security knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

GIS/Esri platform familiarity

Tools

Esri platform

Job description

About the job

We deliver the best GIS solutions in the world, with the brightest minds on the map.

What are the issues that matter most to you? Climate change, national security, disaster response?

At Esri Singapore and solutions and get an inside look into the real-world challenges that shape our future.

1. We turn problems into opportunities, and that takes two things:
2. The most powerful GIS technology and solutions.

Driven, talented, and passionately curious people.

Here we connect them, and that’s how we achieve incredible things for communities, economies, and for your career.

About the role

• Own and grow a strategic Defence portfolio across MINDEF, DSTA, SAF Services, formations, units, and related agencies, driving long-term account growth and customer success.
• Build trusted relationships with senior Defence stakeholders and decision-makers, becoming a valued advisor who understands mission priorities and operational challenges.
• Identify, shape, and secure new business opportunities, expanding existing accounts while developing net-new growth across the Defence ecosystem.
• Lead complex pursuits from opportunity qualification through capture, negotiation, and contract award, developing winning strategies for high-value opportunities.
• Translate Defence mission requirements into impactful geospatial technology and services solutions that deliver measurable customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with technical teams, delivery leaders, partners, and industry primes to develop competitive, commercially sound, and executable solutions.
• Consistently deliver sales targets through strong pipeline management, executive stakeholder engagement, accurate forecasting, and disciplined CRM practices.

About you

To be successful you will need to bring along:

Qualifications and experience, skills and behaviours

• Around 5 years or more in enterprise or public-sector sales, with substantive time in defence or national security accounts in Singapore.
• Drive new business and build pipeline through proactive networking, outreach, value-led engagement, and rigorous sales qualification.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex, multi-year pursuits with long procurement cycles and formal tender processes.
• Working understanding of the defence acquisition environment.
• Good understanding on how programmes are funded, scoped, evaluated, and governed.
• Strong understanding of MINDEF organisation, procurement processes, compliance frameworks, and security requirements.
• Comfort selling services and outcomes.
• Skilled at uncovering customer needs, generating demand, conveying business value, handling objections, and negotiating outcomes.
• Strong influencing skills, including engaging senior executives of customers.
• Disciplined in sales planning, pipeline management and forecasting.

Preferred experience

• Prior service experience, or time inside Singapore defence agencies, Enterprise software/application provider to Singapore defence agencies, or technology partner providing services to Singapore defence agencies
• Hands-on GIS experience. Esri platform, or any equivalent. You will not be asked to develop or configure the solutions but knowing what the technology does shortens your ramp and earns you credibility in the room faster.
• Credible technical fluency in geospatial, C4ISR, simulation, digital twin, or adjacent mission technology. You do not need to be an engineer; you do need to be taken seriously by them.
• Experience in working with System Integrators
• Singapore Citizens are strongly preferred due to security clearance and access requirements.

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For further details or if you have any questions, please contact our Talent Acquisition team by mail at [e-mail] (Ms Fionn Yee)

Please note that Esri Singapore does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.