Business Development Manager (Aerospace)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; on-site

Salary: AED 35,000–45,000 per month

Company

Orbitworks is a commercial space company building on hirify.global’s heritage to mass-manufacture satellites for physical and virtual missions, with operations based in a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.

What you will do

• Build, qualify, and manage a pipeline of business opportunities across priority customers and markets.
• Engage prospective customers and strategic partners, develop trusted relationships, and understand their requirements and decision-making processes.
• Own sales opportunities from qualification through proposal development, commercial discussions, and successful outcomes.
• Coordinate with engineering, finance, operations, and leadership to create competitive customer proposals and presentations.
• Support pricing, contract discussions, and commercial negotiations.
• Monitor market trends, competitor activity, customer needs, and follow-on business opportunities.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in business development, sales, account management, or commercial roles.
• Experience managing opportunities through the full sales lifecycle and preparing proposals, bids, or tenders.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Strong commercial judgment, prioritization skills, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, finance, operations, and leadership teams.
• International or cross-cultural business experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, space, or advanced technology industries.
• Experience with government, defense, or enterprise customers.
• Familiarity with CRM and opportunity management tools.
• Experience in the Middle East and North Africa region.
• Understanding of technical products or engineering-led solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly from the Abu Dhabi satellite manufacturing facility.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, finance, operations, and leadership.
• Contribute to the development of a commercial satellite manufacturing business in the United Arab Emirates.
• Work in a hands-on role with ownership of opportunities from initial engagement through commercial outcomes.

Hiring process

• Artificial intelligence tools may support application review, resume analysis, response assessment, and consistency checks.
• Final hiring decisions are made by human reviewers.