Business Development Leader, Education Market

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The Business Development Leader is responsible for developing and growing the Interiors Group Education market by creating market strategy, driving specification-to-order conversion, building relationships with K-12 and Higher Education stakeholders, leading assigned team members, partnering with Account Executives and Business Units on education opportunities, and providing market insight to support product development and innovation.

Responsibilities Include

Own the success and growth of the Education market segment, including K-12 and Higher Education opportunities. Develop and execute market strategies that drive revenue growth, market penetration, and long-term business development within the education sector. Build and maintain relationships with school districts, higher education institutions, architects, designers, contractors, distributors, and procurement leaders.

Drive conversion of product specifications into awarded projects and purchase orders while supporting bid and commercial strategies. Partner with Account Executives and other Business Units to identify, develop, and close education market opportunities. Lead and develop assigned team members, including the A&D Specification Manager and Business Development Associate.

Gather insight from the education market to drive product development, innovation, and future product launches. Identify emerging trends, funding opportunities, capital improvement programs, and procurement initiatives within the education market. Manage, grow, and develop strategic education accounts and market relationships.

Coordinate with internal teams including Marketing, Product Line Strategy, Estimating, Supply Chain, and Project Delivery to ensure successful project execution. Support internal teams with opportunities by providing customer insight, market knowledge, and overall opportunity management.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in education, interiors, architectural and design, specification sales, building products, or related markets. Strong understanding of K-12 and Higher Education procurement practices, public bidding requirements, and project funding processes. Demonstrated success developing strategic customer relationships and growing market share.

Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across multiple business units and sales organizations. Strong understanding of interior products, window treatments, solar shading, daylighting solutions, or related product categories preferred. Ability to travel 30 - 40%, to districts, design firms and education events PM21 Proudly, Standard Textile has earned a title of US Best Managed Company for the sixth year running, an honor awarded by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, celebrating the exceptional achievements of American private companies and their management teams.

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