Director of Business Development

Milton , Canada
full-time

AI overview

Drive strategic partnerships with national brands, enhance market presence, and ensure operational excellence in food safety through consultative selling.

At Steritech, we aren’t just a service provider, we are the trusted industry leader in protecting brand standards, food safety, and public health for the world’s most recognizable companies. Steritech is part of Rentokil Terminix, the global leader in pest control. The company has experienced significant growth, doubling in size over the past five years. As a Business Development Director, you will play a critical role in expanding Steritech’s market presence and securing strategic partnerships with national brands. You will represent an essential mission: helping clients safeguard their customers, protect their reputation, and elevate food safety and operational excellence.

This is a high-impact leadership position where your expertise in enterprise-level consultative selling, industry knowledge, and strategic business acumen will directly contribute to growth and influence Steritech’s position as the premier partner in brand protection.

Key Responsibilities

  • Identify, target, and secure partnerships with national and large multi-site brands
  • Lead business development strategy within assigned verticals and markets
  • Conduct executive-level meetings and present Steritech’s solutions to C-suite and senior decision-makers
  • Design, price, and negotiate complex, multi-service proposals to support enterprise growth
  • Maintain active presence in national industry associations and thought-leadership forums
  • Track, analyze, and report on sales activity and pipeline performance
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Marketing, Finance, and Product teams to deliver client success and accelerate revenue growth

Food Safety & Brand Protection Leadership

  • Demonstrate advanced understanding of food safety regulations, public health principles, and risk-mitigation strategies
  • Serve as a trusted industry advisor to clients on food safety best practices and emerging trends
  • Partner with internal subject-matter experts to build strategic, data-driven proposals
  • Educate executives and stakeholders on the value and impact of Steritech’s assessment programs
  • Uphold and promote Steritech’s safety, ethics, and compliance standards

Requirements

Qualifications

  • Proven success in senior business development or enterprise sales leadership roles
  • Minimum 4+ years in national-level business development; experience in multi-unit enterprise environments strongly preferred
  • Strong experience selling high-value services or compliance-based solutions
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain C-suite and executive relationships
  • Deep consultative selling and strategic account-planning expertise
  • Familiarity with food safety, quality assurance, regulatory environments, or brand protection programs (industry training provided)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with executive presence
  • Highly strategic thinker with strong business acumen and ability to navigate complex organizations
  • Must be self-driven, growth-oriented, and able to work independently
  • Ability to travel; must reside near a major airport
  • Home-based role requiring overnight travel
  • Must pass Background Check and pre-employment and random Drug Tests
  • Must meet MVR requirements (offer contingent on verification)

Benefits

Salary Range: $100,000-$110,000/ year with the following perks!

  • Commissions on sales
  • Car allowance with gas card
  • Company cell phone and laptop
  • Company paid holidays, vacation and sick time. 
  • Excellent Health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program that offers services such as free counselling services and other benefits
  • Retirement Savings plan with highly-competitive company-matching contributions of 3.5%.
  • Employee Discounts 
  • Fantastic Tuition Reimbursement benefits & Scholarship Programs

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Equity Compensation: Retirement Savings plan with highly-competitive company-matching contributions of 3.5%.
  • Health Insurance: Excellent Health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
  • Other Benefit: Fantastic Tuition Reimbursement benefits & Scholarship Programs
  • Paid Time Off: Company paid holidays, vacation and sick time.

Rentokil Initial provides services that protect people and enhance lives.We protect people from the dangers of pest-borne disease and the risks of poor hygiene. We enhance lives with services that protect the health and wellbeing of people, and the reputation of our customers’ brands.We are always looking for hardworking, energetic and enthusiastic individuals to join our business. We're a very welcoming company, many of our colleagues see each other as their family!Our main brands are Rentokil, Initial and Ambius who provide services including pest control, washroom solutions, specialist hygiene, medical waste disposal, property care and also interior/exterior landscaping for companies within any industry.We have over 1800 local service teams across the world covering 91% of global GDP in over 90 of the world’s 100 largest cities across North America, Europe, UK and the Rest of World, Asia and the Pacific.Our main drive is to offer outstanding and consistent customer service, to support our colleagues and promote colleagues from within, all whilst making sure we have the best health and safety standards possible - we want everyone to get home safely.Does this sound like the company for you? Have a look at our vacancies below!

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