Defense BDM France

Description -

Business Development Manager – Defense

Location: France

Role Purpose

The Business Development Manager (BDM) – Defense is a pure sales role with a strong strategic orientation, created to capture and scale a $200M+ TAM in the Defense vertical in France starting FY26.

While this role does not lead or own cross-functional teams, it is highly influential by design, operating through orchestration, alignment, and trusted relationships across HP and the Defense ecosystem.

The BDM acts as a revenue-focused growth catalyst, ensuring HP’s Defense value proposition is positioned early, credibly, and effectively with the right decision-makers, while leveraging existing HP structures, CoEs, and functional owners.

Strategic Importance of the Role

Defense is a relationship-driven and trust-based market, where sales success depends less on transactional execution and more on:

• Early access to key stakeholders
• Long-term credibility
• Ecosystem positioning

This role is critical to ensure HP:

• Is present upstream in Defense programs, before technical and procurement decisions are locked
• Is perceived as a trusted advisor, not merely a supplier
• Converts macro-level Defense investment into tangible sales pipeline and revenue

Core Nature of the Role

• Pure sales accountability, focused on pipeline creation, deal shaping, and revenue acceleration
• Strong cross-functional influence, working through alignment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Defense Business Development & Sales Ownership

• Own Defense-specific business development in France, from opportunity identification to deal shaping.
• Drive qualified pipeline creation aligned with the €100M+ Defense TAM.
• Support and accelerate complex, multi-year Defense sales cycles, working alongside account teams.

2. Network Building & Trusted Advisor Role (Critical Dimension)

• Establish and maintain a high-value Defense network, including:
  • Senior decision-makers in public Defense institutions and ministries
  • Executives and technical leaders in private Defense companies
  • Leaders within Defense primes and system integrators
• Act as a trusted advisor, engaging customers on strategic topics such as:
  • Digital sovereignty
  • Secure and resilient supply chains
  • Cybersecurity, compliance, and long-term platform stability
• Represent HP with credibility and consistency across Defense forums, institutional meetings, and industry events.

3. Ecosystem & System Integrator Engagement

• Build strong commercial relationships with system integrators, ISVs, OEMs, and strategic partners critical to Defense programs.
• Enable HP’s inclusion in multi-vendor Defense solutions, positioning HP as a core technology component.
• Drive joint value positioning and co-selling opportunities with ecosystem partners.

4. Market Intelligence, TAM & Growth Expansion

• Own Defense market intelligence for France:
  • Map key public and private stakeholders
  • Track programs, funding cycles, and investment priorities
• Continuously refine TAM evolution and opportunity prioritization.
• Identify and activate Defense SMB growth opportunities, including:
  • Small and mid-sized Defense contractors
  • Specialized technology, engineering, and cybersecurity firms

5. Channel & SMB Defense Acceleration

• Work closely with distribution and channel partners to:
  • Translate Defense SMB needs into scalable HP offers
  • Enable repeatable, partner-led sales motions
• Ensure Defense SMBs become a structured and sustainable growth engine for HP France via the channel.

6. Value Proposition & Demand Generation Enablement

• Leverage Public Sector CoE and SEMEA resources to localize HP’s Defense value proposition.
• Contribute to Defense-focused ABM initiatives, events, and executive engagements, in collaboration with Marketing and Sales owners.
• Reinforce HP’s positioning as a secure, compliant, and trusted technology provider.

7. Certifications, Security & Regulatory Awareness

• Identify and prioritize Defense-critical certifications and compliance requirements (ENS, TEMPEST, ANSI etc.).
• Ensure sales motions are aligned with regulatory and security constraints.

Key Interfaces

• HP France Sales & Account Teams
• Public Sector & Defense Center of Excellence (WW & SEMEA)
• Channel, Alliances & Distribution Teams
• Government Affairs & Public Policy
• System Integrators, ISVs, OEMs
• Public and Private Defense Customers

Success Metrics

• Defense pipeline creation and quality
• Revenue contribution vs. €xxx+ TAM
• Early-stage program inclusion rate
• Strength and relevance of Defense network established
• Channel-driven SMB Defense revenue
• Progress on certification enablement impacting sales

Why This Role Is Mission-Critical

Without this role:

• HP remains downstream in Defense decision cycles
• Sales opportunities are fragmented and reactive
• Defense SMB growth through channel remains underexploited
• HP risks being positioned as a component vendor

With this role:

• HP gains early access, influence, and credibility
• Large Defense programs and SMB opportunities are addressed coherently
• HP accelerates revenue while strengthening long-term strategic positioning

 

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Sales

Schedule -

Full time

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No shift premium (France)

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Relocation -

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