Vice President of Business Development

Atlas Oil•Birmingham, MI

About The Position

The Vice President of Business Development is a senior enterprise leader responsible for identifying, evaluating, and accelerating growth opportunities across all Simon Group Holdings entities. This role connects strategy, data, people, and capital across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, ensuring initiatives are coordinated, scalable, and optimized across the broader SGH portfolio. The VP will operate at the intersection of investment, operating strategy, and execution, aggressively pursuing new opportunities, optimizing existing assets, and leveraging relationships, data, and capabilities across SGH businesses to unlock enterprise-wide value. This individual is a sophisticated business builder who is hands-on, deeply analytical, and relentless in pursuing high-quality growth. The role requires someone who knows how to dig in, challenge assumptions, and mobilize talent across diverse operating companies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field required
15+ years of progressive leadership experience in business development, corporate strategy, commercial leadership, investments, or portfolio operations
Demonstrated success operating in a multi-entity, diversified organization (family office, private equity portfolio, holding company, or complex enterprise environment strongly preferred)
Proven experience evaluating new opportunities, including: M&A, joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic investments Commercial viability, financial returns, and operational feasibility
Experience working across North American markets (U.S., Canada, Mexico) with an understanding of cross‑border operations, regulatory considerations, and market dynamics

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred (MBA or equivalent), particularly with emphasis in strategy, finance, operations, or entrepreneurship
Ongoing executive education in corporate strategy, investment evaluation, or portfolio management is a plus

Responsibilities

Lead enterprise‑wide business development initiatives that span multiple SGH companies, geographies, and verticals by connecting and aligning global initiatives across all SGH entities
Evaluate new opportunities and inbound deals, assessing strategic fit, investment viability, risk, scalability, and value creation potential before advancing recommendations to ownership and senior leadership
Actively source, develop, and shape new growth opportunities and identify adjacencies, white‑space opportunities, and underleveraged assets across the portfolio rather than passively reacting to inbound ideas
Build enterprise data and insight that identifies where SGH businesses can collaborate, cross‑sell, co‑invest, or share infrastructure, customers, supply chains, or intellectual capital
Partner with operating leaders to turn strategic concepts into executable, revenue‑generating initiatives
Assess new deals, partnerships, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments brought forward to SGH through evaluating commercial upside, operational feasibility, capital requirements, and returns
Build business cases, financial logic, and strategic rationale to support investment decisions
Work closely with ownership, legal, finance, and operating leadership through diligence and decision stages.
Build frameworks, dashboards, and intelligence that reveal how SGH entities can better connect and leverage one another
Identify shared customers, vendors, markets, real estate, infrastructure, and operational capabilities
Ensure insights are actionable, not theoretical, and drive real collaboration and economic benefit
Proactively identify opportunities to optimize existing SGH assets, commercially, operationally, and strategically.
Improve asset utilization, market reach, and return on invested capital
Operate as a trusted partner to SGH ownership, CEOs, and senior leadership across portfolio companies
Leverage people across SGH institutions to form high‑impact, cross‑functional teams