Requirements

- Lead and support capital-raising initiatives for growth businesses and ventures.
- Develop relationships with investors, family offices, private equity, venture capital, strategic investors and financing partners.
- Build and maintain a pipeline of prospective investors and capital opportunities.
- Help develop investment presentations, financial propositions and pitch materials.
- Represent the company alongside the CEO in investor meetings and presentations.
- Support negotiations, due diligence and transaction processes.
- Identify creative financing and strategic capital opportunities.

Demonstrated experience successfully raising or helping secure meaningful capital is an important requirement.

CEO & Strategic Leadership

- Serve as a key right-hand business partner to the CEO.
- Translate the CEO's vision and ideas into executable business strategies.
- Work with leadership teams to drive performance and growth.
- Establish priorities, targets and execution plans for new and existing businesses.
- Help ensure teams remain focused on revenue, growth and enterprise value.
- Represent the CEO in selected strategic, commercial and external relationships.
- Work with company leaders and sales management to accelerate revenue growth.
- Strengthen sales management, leadership, accountability and execution.
- Participate in major business-development opportunities and complex sales when required.

Candidates must have significant personal sales experience as well as demonstrated experience leading and managing sales teams.

Business Development & Strategic Growth

- Identify and develop new businesses, markets, revenue streams and commercial opportunities.




- Build strategic relationships with executives, founders, entrepreneurs and potential partners.
- Develop and negotiate partnerships, joint ventures and other commercial relationships.
- Evaluate opportunities and determine how they can be commercialized and scaled.
- Build business cases and go-to-market strategies for new ventures.
- Identify opportunities that leverage capabilities and relationships across multiple businesses.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone with a demonstrated record of results—not simply someone who understands the theory of business development.

The ideal candidate will bring:

- 10+ years of progressive experience in sales leadership, business development, strategic growth, capital raising, entrepreneurship or senior commercial leadership.
- A strong personal sales background with demonstrated success generating significant revenue and closing complex opportunities.
- Proven experience leading, managing and developing sales teams and sales leaders.
- Experience raising capital or securing investment/financing.
- An established or developing network of investors, entrepreneurs, executives and strategic partners.
- Experience working across multiple businesses, industries or entrepreneurial ventures.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen.
- Exceptional executive communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work directly with a highly entrepreneurial CEO in a rapid-moving, opportunity-driven environment.
- Ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution.
- A willingness to challenge assumptions, solve problems and take ownership of results.
- A strong bias toward action, accountability, revenue and growth.

📌 Director, Business Development & Strategic Growth (Toronto)
🏢 Dawn Recruiting Agency
📍 Toronto