Vice President - US Federal Sales and Business Development

About JMA

Employment Type: Full-Time

JMA is restoring U.S. leadership in wireless technology at a critical time in the transition to 5G. It makes the world’s most advanced software-based 5G platform, designed, coded, and manufactured in Syracuse, NY at the only U.S.-owned 5G factory in the country. Across its global tech centers, JMA makes 5G possible for organizations with the most critical connectivity demands in the world. JMA’s technology is ushering in a new era of connectivity for leading mobile carriers, the most iconic stadiums, major universities, leading healthcare centers, the busiest transit centers, and the U.S. Military. 5G is more than another G on your phone — it is a generational opportunity to change the way the world operates. Join the industry’s fastest growing technology company to shape that future today.

Vice President of Business Development, Federal Markets

The key responsibility of the Vice President of Business Development, Federal Markets, is to position JMA solutions and services for private 5G wireless opportunities within the assigned account targets within the US Federal government. In this role, the successful candidate will engage multiple internal organizations within US Federal government customers and partners to deliver on key inputs to drive outcomes while working with central stakeholders across the JMA organization to prioritize, develop, and execute GTM plans with key partners.

This Vice President of Business Development, Federal Markets is a vital participant in industry events like ACFEA, Potomac Officers Club, and others focused on Government customers and partners. The successful candidate will navigate unchartered ground and lead business development efforts with cutting edge and relevant products and solutions from JMA Wireless. Forging executive level relationships with central stakeholders within their assigned accounts, collaborating internally with members of the Federal team and key individuals within the JMA family, and leaning on critical learnings from recent world events will guide the Vice President of Business Development to targeted areas of success and adjacent opportunities for JMA.

This is a key business leadership position inside an inspiring company and in an exciting territory, and through excellent execution of our efforts we will establish and execute a thought leadership agenda for JMA Wireless within the very important Federal market.

Key Work Areas

• Executes a sales strategy and Go to Market (GTM) for sales to the US Government Department of Defense.
• Coordination with the JMA Federal team for identification and closure of key opportunities.
• Take care of the overall sales cycle for opportunities, this is: identifies underlying opportunity, qualifies opportunity, gather internal approvals ‘Go-Decision’, Supports proposal synthesis process, proposal quality assurance, deliver proposal to customer, follow-up on proposal decision win/loss analysis.
• Orchestrates all pre-sales and post-sales efforts around Federal sales. This includes, but is not limited to, defining and writing account plans, defining tactical roles and responsibilities to entire sales support teams, aligning and coordination of pre-sales activities, coordinate projects implementation tasks along with assigned PM, monitoring and following-up support organization activities for high severity and critical open cases and escalations, defining right moment for engagement of Ribbon executives in customer topics.
• Keep forecasts and key Account Plans updated and relevant to current opportunities.

Position Responsibilities

• Identify, develop and close JMA sales opportunities with JMA partners and channels.
• Engage senior levels and operational levels into the assigned account targets.
• Work with JMA Leadership, key partners and consortiums to guide the US Federal budget process to include US Federal 5G programs and projects.
• Identify and drive key strategic and technical partnerships in conjunction with the JMA Channel and Part.