Director, Emea Connected Warfare Growth

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Amsterdam, Netherlands +1 · Sales and Marketing : Business Development : Connected Warfare Capture

Sales role focused on driving go-to-market strategy and closing new business for Anduril's Connected Warfare Division in Europe and the Middle East. The role involves identifying, qualifying, shaping, and closing complex opportunities with Allied nations, navigating international procurement cycles and sovereign requirements. It requires building and managing regional channels, collaborating with internal teams, and informing the product roadmap based on regional needs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive go-to-market. Stand up and execute the Connected Warfare growth strategy across Europe and the Middle East. Identify, qualify, shape, and close complex opportunities with Allied nations, navigating international procurement cycles and sovereign requirements to secure long-term programs of record.
  2. Generate and capture new business. Run a dual-track motion: hunt and close net-new customers across the region while partnering with delivery teams to scale and expand current contracts.
  3. Map customer requirements. Build a working understanding of regional defence requirements, security constraints, and legacy architectures. Show how Anduril's open architecture integrates with sovereign systems to solve real operational problems.
  4. Build and manage the regional channel. Identify, onboard, and manage strategic partners, resellers, system integrators, and European primes. Coordinate with Anduril's Global Defense team on teaming agreements that accelerate adoption.
  5. Run the internal matrix. Maintain close working relationships across business line and division leadership, growth, programs, engineering, and corporate functions to shape opportunities and unblock execution.

Skills

Required

  • defence, dual-use, or enterprise networking sales experience
  • European government and military customer closing experience
  • European defence procurement cycles, budgeting, and sovereign security frameworks knowledge
  • Ability to quickly master highly technical concepts (mesh networking, edge compute, C2, cloud architecture) and credibly brief senior military and technical leaders
  • Experience building and managing a regional channel
  • Capture management or equivalent enterprise sales pursuit methodology
  • Cross-cultural communication and negotiation skills
  • Native or fluent English
  • Second European language (Dutch, German)

Nice to have

  • Salesforce proficiency

What the JD emphasized

  • European defence environments come with sovereign requirements, legacy architectures, and security constraints.
  • The deliverable is unambiguous: pipeline, partners, and signed contracts.
  • 10+ years in defence, dual-use, or enterprise networking sales, with at least 5 years closing business with European government and military customers
  • A proven hunter: documented record of identifying, qualifying, and closing complex deals with European Ministries of Defence (MoDs), NATO bodies, or coalition partners — opened the door, shaped the requirement, closed the contract
  • Deep familiarity with European defence procurement cycles, budgeting, and sovereign security frameworks
  • A builder with high agency: has stood up a regional pipeline, country, or business line from a standing start — not just managed an existing book.
  • Demonstrated experience building and managing a regional channel — resellers, system integrators, and prime partnerships
  • Strong command of capture management or an equivalent enterprise sales pursuit methodology