# Director, Business Development - Institutional

ClearSpace is recruiting an experienced Business Development Director - Institutional to support the development and growth of ClearSpace's institutional pipeline across the Group. This role focuses on public-sector and institutional customers, including the European Commission and wider European Union programmes, the European Space Agency (ESA), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), and the UK Space Agency (UKSA), and national and international space and defence agencies. The successful candidate will develop and foster relationships with existing and prospective institutional customers, shape and lead bids, and secure institutional funding for ClearSpace. They will be responsible for cross-cutting BD-related areas including proposal production and capture management across institutional programmes, and will work with ClearSpace leadership to maintain close relationships with agency and member-state stakeholders. The Role The Business Development Director - Institutional will draw on the responsibility areas below, covering capture management, bid production, and wider BD/commercial activities, with a focus on institutional cus

- **Id**: 459426
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clearspace-director-business-development-institutional>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-30T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:24:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 103
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5989
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace

## Company

- **Id**: 176591
- **Name**: ClearSpace
- **Domain**: clearspace.today
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clearspace>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 73
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Red Teaming** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 103

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: French; Level: All levels; Optional: yes
- Language: German; Level: All levels; Optional: yes
- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T10:31:55Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 40
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.733
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 103
- **Expected fill days**: 73
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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