Business Development Manager – Mission Management

Responsibilities

• Identify, qualify, and prioritize new mission opportunities aligned with Voyager's capabilities, including commercial, civil (NASA), and national security space customers.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with prospective and existing customers, prime contractors, mission partners, and government program offices.
• Develop account plans and call plans for priority customers; lead executive-level engagement and customer briefings.
• Maintain pipeline visibility, opportunity health, and accurate forecasting in the group's CRM/opportunity-tracking system.
• Lead capture strategy for assigned pursuits, including competitive assessment, win themes, teaming, price-to-win, and gate reviews.
• Partner with the Mission Management team to translate customer needs into compelling, executable mission concepts.
• Drive proposal development in coordination with capture managers, contracts, pricing, and engineering leadership; own customer-facing narrative and value proposition.
• Shape opportunities pre-RFP through customer engagement, white papers, RFI responses, and demonstrations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or a closely related technical/engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in the space or aerospace industry, including at least 4 years in business development, capture, or customer-facing program roles.
• Demonstrated track record of qualifying, capturing, and winning space-related opportunities, including direct contribution to one or more wins of meaningful contract value.
• Working technical understanding of space missions, spacecraft, ground systems, and launch — sufficient to converse credibly with customers and engineering teams.
• Familiarity with the U.S. space ecosystem and customer base, including some combination of commercial space, NASA, U.S. Space Force, NRO, and other DoD/IC stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to brief technical content to executive and customer audiences.
• U.S. person status as defined by ITAR (22 CFR 120.62); must be able to access export-controlled information.