Business Development Manager📣 Job Ad

Role Overview
Our confidential client is seeking a Business Development Manager in Riyadh to lead and deliver end-to-end business development activities across a diversified holding structure, translating group growth priorities into qualified opportunities, strategic partnerships, and measurable commercial outcomes, while ensuring strong coordination across subsidiaries and disciplined pipeline execution.

Key Responsibilities
You will own business development activities across the group and support subsidiaries through structured opportunity management, strong relationship building, and commercially sound execution.

• Growth Strategy & Planning: Translate group priorities into an annual business development roadmap; conduct market sizing, sector screening, competitor mapping, and opportunity prioritization.
• Opportunity Sourcing & Pipeline Build: Build and manage a qualified pipeline across new business, strategic accounts, partnerships, referrals, and cross-subsidiary opportunities.
• Feasibility & Business Case Development: Assess commercial attractiveness, strategic fit, risks, and execution requirements; support business cases with structured financial and ROI inputs.
• Proposal & Tender Management: Lead EOIs, proposals, pitch decks, and commercial submissions; coordinate internal inputs on pricing, scope, timelines, and positioning.
• Negotiation & Deal Execution: Support negotiations with clients, partners, and advisors; coordinate NDAs, MoUs, term sheets, and commercial summaries with Legal and Finance.
• Stakeholder & Relationship Management: Build trusted relationships with C-level stakeholders, strategic partners, investors, advisors, and key clients.
• Portfolio Collaboration: Work with subsidiary GMs and business leaders to identify synergies, bundled offerings, and aligned go-to-market opportunities.
• Governance & Reporting: Maintain CRM discipline, pipeline reviews, opportunity documentation, and clear CEO updates on movement, risks, and priorities.

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in business development, commercial strategy, partnerships, or corporate growth roles.
- Proven exposure to holding companies, diversified groups, or multi-entity business environments.
- Strong capability in opportunity assessment, proposal development, negotiation support, and executive reporting.
- Strong commercial acumen, relationship management, and cross-functional coordination capability.

Preferred / Nice-to-have
- Experience supporting strategic partnerships, joint ventures, or early-stage M&A / investment screening.
- Exposure to GCC/MENA family groups, holding companies, or conglomerate environments.
- MBA or relevant commercial, strategy, or project management qualification.
- Experience in go-to-market planning and cross-subsidiary growth initiatives.

Success Metrics
- A qualified and visible business development pipeline is established across priority sectors and subsidiaries.
- Proposal and pitch quality improve, with better commercial positioning and conversion outcomes.
- Strategic partnerships and cross-subsidiary opportunities become more structured and actionable.
- CEO reporting is consistent, decision-oriented, and supported by reliable CRM data.
- Time-to-progress and time-to-close improve across priority opportunities.
- New business contribution increases through converted opportunities and stronger account development.
- Governance improves across confidential documents, non-binding offers, and commercial approvals.