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Inaugural Role
You will have the opportunity to help create your business development strategy, making it your own
Critical Role
Key in the development of sales strategies and initiatives through your participation in sales meetings, sales calls, and lunch & learns
Diversified Construction Company
You will have the ability to sell all the company’s services to every client you speak to, thereby greatly increasing your potential for success
Director of Business Development @ Power-Tek Group
Company: Power-Tek Group
Position: Director of Business Development
Location: Ottawa, ON
Founded in 1996, Power-Tek Group is an Ottawa-based integrated, multi-trade construction company with over 85 employees and four operating divisions: Electrical Contracting, HVAC/R and Plumbing, General Contracting, and Real Estate Acquisition and Development. Over its 24-year history, Power-Tek group has completed over $300M worth of construction projects throughout Eastern Ontario. At its core, Power-Tek Group is a dynamic, progressive company, committed to providing its customers with the highest level safety and quality construction, facility management, service, and technical solutions.
Skills & Experience
Experience
8+ years’ experience in the construction industry, ideally in Mechanical or Electrical, within a business development B2B role
Self-Starter
High level of ambition and truly thrive off being a self-starter in order to contribute to the success of an organization
Traits
Strategic, entrepreneurial and critical thinking professional
Multi-tasker
Not afraid to roll up your sleeves, often managing multiple projects at one time
Summary of the Role
As Director of Business Development, and reporting to the VP of Corporate Development, you will be accountable for creating new client relationships, specifically for bringing in high quality bidding opportunities that result in securing new projects, maintenance contracts and service work for the company.
You will be a critical team member for Power-Tek as the organization looks to grow and scale through acquisition of new clients. This is a newly created role, one that requires you to have the confidence to hit the ground running and leverage your industry connections and knowledge in order to help build out the business.
The Director of Business Development will be responsible for promoting all Power-Tek services, General Contracting, Electrical, HVAC/R & Plumbing. This involves getting the company’s various services pre-qualified with potential clients, selling Maintenance Contracts, and getting the company invited to private, high probability bidding opportunities. You will leverage your knowledge of the overall construction process in order to identify business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry. You will work to develop, maintain, and expand business relationships with external stakeholders including developers, property owners, landlords, leasing agents, facility managers, property managers, designers, architects, engineers and general contractors. You will actively develop upstream leads and opportunities and will ensure to manage them through to close, creating, presenting, and responding to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions while working with the estimating teams for each service offering.
It is critical that beyond your focus on business development, you take steps to thoroughly understand the organization, so that you are prepared to assist with the development of a strategic growth plan. More than anything else, first and foremost, you act as a role model of Power-Tek’s company values and culture and promote its “Building Partnerships through Solutions” ethos.
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