Director, Strategic Partnerships & Corporate Development

Help build iWaaS™, SSWG's new industrial water division

Seven Seas Water Group is launching iWaaS™, our new industrial Water-as-a-Service® (WaaS®) division, and we're looking for a Director, Strategic Partnerships & Corporate Development to build its channel-partner program from the ground up: EPC and engineering firms, water and wastewater technology providers, and chemical water treatment companies, an initial mapped universe of nearly 250 prospective partners. You'll turn relationships that are already inside the plants we want to build into live, revenue-generating partnerships, and you'll do double duty sourcing the acquisition targets that strengthen iWaaS™'s Design-Build-Own-Operate-Maintain (DBOOM) capability. This is a remote role, with a strong preference for candidates based in Houston, Tampa, or another hub near our target accounts.

Who we are

Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers more than 20 billion gallons of water a year to industrial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. Through our Water-as-a-Service® (WaaS®) model, we design, build, own, and operate more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants, taking on the capital and operational risk so our customers don't have to. SSWG is a portfolio company of EQT, a global investment firm with more than three decades of experience building essential infrastructure.

What you'll own

You'll own and grow iWaaS™'s channel-partner program across three segments: EPC and engineering firms, water and wastewater technology providers, and chemical water treatment companies. Hundreds of companies already touch the exact plants we want to build for, so this isn't a market you have to invent from scratch. It's a mapped universe of nearly 250 prospective partners waiting to be converted into revenue, and you'll be the one building the program that converts them.

The pitch differs by segment, but the logic holds. For EPC firms and technology providers, you'll often be picking up a design or proposal that stalled because the end customer couldn't fund construction, and showing them what our balance sheet unlocks: their engineering and equipment stay in the solution, and the project gets built. For chemical water treatment companies, you'll build recurring-revenue alliances, so every plant we build and operate keeps a partner's chemical relationship running for the life of the contract.

This is also a relationship-sourcing role for our M&A pipeline. The same conversations that build channel-partner deal flow, with consulting engineers, EPC principals, and technology-provider executives, routinely surface companies we evaluate as acquisition tuck-ins for iWaaS™. You'll move fluidly between a partnership conversation and a partnership-or-acquisition-sourcing conversation, often in the same call, and you'll maintain a live target pipeline in coordination with our corporate development function and executive leadership. You'll also represent iWaaS™ at the industry events where these relationships get built.