Director of Business Development - Validation

Afinitas GmbH; East Brunswick Township (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group in East Brunswick Township, NJ, is seeking a Director of Business Development to lead client engagements and expand opportunities with life sciences and manufacturing clients. You will collaborate with industry experts to deliver high-quality engineering services and solutions.

The role emphasizes mentoring, proposal development, and strategic growth across regulatory environments, cGMP, and FDA validation.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of experience in business development/sales of engineering services or solutions for life sciences, biotech, pharmaceutical or related FDA regulated industries.
• Experience in proposal development processes and client management.
• Understanding of good documentation practices, cGMP, and FDA validation methods.
• Passion for a career in the life sciences industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead local business development efforts and expand engagements with existing clients.
• Collaborate with industry experts to deliver high-quality engineering services and solutions.
• Mentor teams and interface with clients to provide subject matter expertise in validation and regulatory contexts.
• Develop project scope statements, estimates, and proposals.

Skills

Business development

Client management

Proposal development

FDA validation knowledge

cGMP knowledge

Mentorship

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Life sciences industry

Education

Bachelor of Science in engineering or related technical field

Job description

About Us

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With You will join one of our nearly 50 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1,700 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world-class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.

When you join BW Design Group as a Director of Business Development, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems. You will collaborate with seasoned leaders, technical specialists, and subject matter experts to deliver the highest quality solutions to our clients with consistency and accuracy.

What You’ll Do

• Lead local business development efforts and expand engagements with existing clients
• Make an impact day-to-day with your skills and expertise, initiating and strengthening relationships with our clients and team
• Partner with a team of technical professionals and interface with clients to provide subject matter expertise in the validation of a variety of utility, facility, and process equipment.
• Develop project scope statements, estimates, and proposals

What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of ten years of experience with increasing responsibility in business development/sales of engineering services or solutions for life sciences, biotech, pharmaceutical or related FDA regulated industries.
• Experience in proposal development
• Client management experience
• An understanding of good documentation practices, cGMP, and FDA validation methods and systems
• A passion for a career in the life science industry
• Experience in mentorship, multi-discipline collaboration, and in a consulting and service environment
• A bachelor of science in engineering, biology, chemistry or a related technical degree is a plus

Our culture and commitment to our people is what sets us apart. We foster an environment of mutual respect, integrity, and unconditional interest in the individual and collective success of our professionals. Our model and entrepreneurial mindset offer a rewarding, challenging, and highly flexible path.

As a Director of Business Development, you will build a meaningful and fulfilling career with the support of professional development resources and mentorships including our First Year Experience program, Individual Development Plans, and Career Path resources and tools. You will be surrounded by exceptional talent who will support your development as both a world-class engineer and a highly effective leader.

Feel like you're on the path to becoming a Director of Business Development but you're not quite there yet? We'd love to connect with you to see if we can take you from where you are today and grow you into a Design Group Director.

At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work-therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions.

Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V

This organization uses E-Verify.

Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments.

Company: Design Group Throughout Barry-Wehmiller, we hold ourselves to a unique measure of success: by the way we touch the lives of people. It’s that vision that drives us in creating world-class experiences and solutions for our customers and unites us around our common goal-to use the power of our business to build a better world.