Senior Director, Business Development, Food & Beverage

Seven Seas Water; Houston, Tampa (TX, FL); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Seven Seas Water is seeking a Senior Director, Business Development to build the iWaaS pipeline for Food & Beverage, focusing on dairy, beverage bottling, prepared foods, and protein processing across major processing clusters. This is a remote role with preference for Houston or Tampa regions and travel around 30%.

You will lead outreach, negotiate long-term contracts, and hand off deals to project finance and execution teams while engaging at industry events to expand the pipeline and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of senior business development or sales leadership in industrial services or infrastructure.
• Experience closing long-term, capital-intensive service contracts with total value ≥ $20M.
• Comfort navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise sales including CFO approvals.
• Record of multi-year tenures and long, complex deal cycles.

Responsibilities

• Build a qualified iWaaS pipeline in the food & beverage vertical.
• Lead direct outreach and industry relationships to convert targets into LOIs.
• Structure long-term offtake agreements and negotiate terms with stakeholders.
• Hand off signed deals to project finance and execution teams.
• Represent SSWG at industry events and trade shows.

Skills

Senior business development

Sales leadership

Capital-intensive contracts

Multi-stakeholder selling

Education

Engineering degree

MBA or Finance background

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Description

Senior Director, Business Development, Food & Beverage

Build a Water-as-a-Service® pipeline in the vertical our model was made for. Seven Seas Water Group is hiring a Senior Director, Business Development to win new business for iWaaS® (Industrial Water-as-a-Service®), our new industrial division, across the food and beverage vertical. Dairy plants, beverage bottlers, prepared-food facilities, and protein processors are running aging plants, carrying public ESG commitments, and producing some of the highest-strength, hardest-to-treat wastewater in industrial America. All of that points to a plant manager who would rather buy treated water and clean discharge than own a treatment plant. You'll be the one who makes that case, from first conversation to signed letter of intent. You'll report to our SVP, Industrial. This is a remote role, with a strong preference for candidates near a major food and beverage processing cluster (Gulf Coast, Southeast, or Mid-Atlantic) or in Houston or Tampa.

Who we are

Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers more than 20 billion gallons of water a year to industrial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. Through our WaaS® model, we design, build, own, and operate more than 220 water and wastewater treatment plants, taking on the capital and operational risk so our customers don't have to. SSWG is a portfolio company of EQT, a global investment firm with more than three decades of experience building essential infrastructure.

What you'll own

This is a builder’s role. There's no existing account book to inherit, so you'll turn a target list of processors and their engineering staff into a live, qualified pipeline through direct outreach, industry relationships, and a real command of what a food and beverage plant’s water and wastewater problems look like. You'll focus on dairy, beverage bottling, prepared foods, and protein processing, building named-account relationships until you're the person a plant calls when its water problem becomes urgent.

As deals take shape, you'll structure long-term offtake agreements, per-gallon service fees, escalators, and take-or-pay floors, that work for both the customer’s balance sheet and ours. You'll lead commercial negotiation across a multi-stakeholder buying process that includes the plant manager, operations, finance, procurement, and legal, and keep all five moving in the same direction. Once a deal is signed, you'll hand it off cleanly to our project finance and execution teams, so the deal you sold is the plant that gets built.

You'll also represent SSWG at food and beverage industry events and trade shows, where the next several years of pipeline get built one relationship at a time.

Requirements

What you bring

• 12+ years of senior business development or sales leadership at an industrial services, environmental services, or infrastructure company
• Direct experience closing long-term, capital-intensive service contracts with a total contract value of $20 million or more
• Comfort navigating a multi-stakeholder enterprise sale, including a customer’s CFO or capital-committee approval process
• A record of multi-year tenures and long, complex deal cycles

Experience with WaaS or other outsourced water models, on-site industrial gas supply, ESCO or Energy-as-a-Service, campus P3, or industrial water service contracts is strongly preferred, as is vertical depth in food and beverage processing and existing relationships in a major processing cluster. An engineering degree, an MBA or finance background, or senior relationships at named food and beverage accounts are all a plus, not a requirement.

Why this role

You'd be building this vertical from the ground up, in the market our iWaaS model fits most naturally. You'll own every deal from first conversation to signed LOI, with direct visibility to our SVP, Industrial and real influence over how SSWG grows iWaaS. If you want to build a book of long-term infrastructure deals rather than inherit one, this is that seat.

Location: Remote, with a strong preference for the Gulf Coast, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Houston, or Tampa. Travel: 30% to customer sites, plants, and industry events. Full-time, exempt.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans.

Applicant will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.