Director, Business Development (Aerospace)

Location: Toulouse, France

Company

hirify.global develops in-orbit servicing and space debris removal solutions to support sustainable space exploration and operations.

What you will do

• Lead pipeline development across institutional, defence, and commercial opportunities.
• Track opportunities from ESA, the EU, EIC, UKSA, defence agencies, and commercial satellite operators, matching them with future projects.
• Manage and coordinate bids through the Business Acquisition Process, including bid/no-bid reviews and win-theme analysis.
• Coordinate technical, commercial, financial, contractual, procurement, and partner inputs for complex bids and consortium proposals.
• Develop customer and partner relationships and support account management, events, conferences, and policy engagements.
• Contribute to the definition of new and iterative products and services with the Product Development team.

Requirements

• Significant bid management experience in the space industry, including institutional, defence, or commercial bids.
• Strong understanding of institutional, defence, and commercial space ecosystems and relevant stakeholder negotiations.
• Significant experience working with institutional agencies, defence customers, or commercial operators on space programmes.
• Strong commercial awareness and risk and opportunity management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational, and written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of in-orbit servicing and active debris removal activities.

Nice to have

• Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems, preferably upstream and space segment systems.
• Experience with EU funding instruments, defence procurement, export controls, or satellite business development.
• Relationships with commercial satellite operators or in-orbit servicing customers.
• Experience preparing technical, commercial, financial, implementation, management, contractual, and risk bid volumes.
• Experience with ESA bid financials, PSS form generation, or project management of space programmes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within an expert engineering organisation focused on sustainable space operations.
• Collaborate across hirify.global entities and with world-leading institutions, companies, and external partners.
• Contribute to missions addressing space debris removal and the long-term sustainability of space activities.