Senior BDM - Public Sector

About the Role

• As a Senior Business Development Manager – Public Sector, you'll drive revenue growth across government departments, regulators, and state-owned enterprises. You'll lead complex sales opportunities, build strategic customer relationships, and coach sales professionals across the public-sector team.
• This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct people-management responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive new business acquisition, renewals, and account expansion across the public sector.
• Lead complex, high-value government sales opportunities and negotiations.
• Build strategic relationships with government departments, regulators, and public institutions.
• Navigate public-sector procurement processes, tenders, and long sales cycles.
• Coach Account Managers and Business Development Managers to strengthen sales execution and deal conversion.
• Manage pipeline quality, opportunity qualification, and revenue forecasting.
• Identify opportunities aligned with government funding, procurement requirements, and customer needs.
• Partner with internal teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Ensure compliance with procurement regulations, pricing, and commercial governance.

Requirements

• Extensive B2B sales experience and a record of delivering public-sector revenue growth.
• Experience selling to government, state-owned enterprises, or public institutions.
• Knowledge of public-sector procurement, tenders, and budgeting cycles.
• Success managing complex, high-value, multi-stakeholder sales opportunities.
• Experience in technology, legal technology, enterprise software, or information services.
• Strong pipeline management, forecasting, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to coach and influence sales teams without formal authority.
• Strong commercial judgement, stakeholder engagement, and ethical selling practices.