Regional Vice President Customer Success, Middle East

Thales; Dubai; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales UAE is seeking an Executive to lead country growth and sales leadership in Dubai. You will drive growth strategy, orchestrate cross-functional teams, and shape key customer engagements across aerospace, transport, security, and space sectors.

We value entrepreneurship, deep market insight, and the ability to lead complex negotiations with senior customers. Join a global leader delivering high-impact solutions in a dynamic market with a strong local footprint.

Qualifications

• Experience in building a high-performance sales culture.
• Knowledge in running sales operations in complex markets and improving them.
• Analytical skills to identify growth opportunities early.
• Demonstrates entrepreneurship and strategic thinking.
• Strong understanding of customer segments and needs.
• Promotes diversity and creates an inclusive environment.
• Strong communication, partner relationships and leadership.
• Negotiation and executive-level influencing abilities.
• Coaching and mentoring people to reach success.

Responsibilities

• Build country growth strategy with clear goals and timelines.
• Put customer first and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver value.
• Engage sales people and drive accountability across channels.
• Manage risk, foster entrepreneurship, and pursue disruptive ideas.
• Own decisions on gate processes, pricing, and bid/no-bid at country level.
• Deliver country OI forecasts and strategic account plans.

Skills

Sales leadership

Sales operations

Analytical thinking

Entrepreneurship

Customer segmentation

Diversity & inclusion

Communication & relationships

Negotiation & influence

Coaching & mentoring

Job description

Location: Dubai United Arab EmiratesIn fast changing markets customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each aerospace transportation defence security and space our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrows possible.Thales has built a presence in the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years and today has over 300 employees. Thales in the UAE is part of our Middle East business that has 1800 people across Egypt Iraq Kuwait KSA Lebanon Oman Pakistan Qatar and UAE. Together we delivered technology for the Dubai metro the longest driverless metro network in the world and a fare collection system that processes up to 250000 transactions per day. We make UAE a safer place by providing secure electronic payment solutions cyber security systems and communications as well as security systems for Dubai International Airport and air traffic management and navigation systems for Abu Dhabis airport.

MISSIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

BUILD COUNTRY GROWTH STRATEGY

• Understand the market: context stakes market evolution(including services and digital business) current business footprint (including projects challenges opportunities)
• Build and share a vision: the image of Thales leadership in the country goals and objectives
• Prepare & schedule country growth plan: Market share allocated resources (strategic workforce planning budget anticipating risk analysis alternative scenario tools ..)
• Provide focus and priorities to the Team set up and monitor objectives
• Organize periodic team meetings addressing OI and revenue follow-up ongoing opportunities coordination and action plans with clear accountability

PUT CUSTOMER-FIRST

• Capture and formulate specific customer insights as basis for Thales leadership with the customer
• Develop and foster cooperation across Thales entities and functions (GBUs/BLs/Countries/SAM/KAM) to facilitate a win-win approach and develop a One Thales strategy
• Drive the definition and execution of ambitious account plans (Strategic & Key)
• Work closely with Value & Bid and Capture functions to shape opportunities in order to deliver differentiating value propositions and winning bids. Coordinate and influence with other Group functions such as legal finance
• Act as THALES group representative of accounts orchestrate the Customer Experience across touchpoints and foster its improvement (end-to-end experience)
• Establish and develop high level trust-based relationships with his/her key customers to improve capture rate
• Anticipate complex negotiation closing including partnerships

ENGAGE SALES PEOPLE

• Build a high-performance sales culture
• Coordinate team efficiency and sales team involvement to ensure customer satisfaction
• Manage performance with guiding sales organizational principles and key metrics across sales channels and markets
• Provide managerial leadership to ensure initiatives and deploy relevant practices (Value proposition Black Hat Price to Win)
• Engage and develop people through regular feedback coaching attitude. Act as a role model for coaching teams helping team members find their way
• Promote diversity and create an inclusive environment
• Select recruit sales team members propose allocation of resources

MANAGE RISK TAKING & FOSTER ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Create value for customers and Thales in the relationship
• Encourage digital disruptive and innovative offers
• Mitigate the risks using appropriate lessons learnt from successes and failures

DECISIONS OWNED / KEY DELIVERABLES

DECISIONS OWNED

• Sales organization : selection and development of Sales profiles & objectives of each sales team member
• Allocation of resources on Gate 0 1 2
• Winning price
• Bid/no Bid at country level

DELIVERABLES PRODUCED

• Country OI forecast
• Account plans for strategic key and selected segment accounts

KEY INTERACTIONS

• Sales Team
• Sales Operations
• Value & Bid
• Account Teams
• BL Managers
• Finance
• Quality & Customer Satisfaction
• Legal

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Experience in building a high performance Sales culture
• Knowledge in running Sales operations in complex markets and constantly improving them
• Analytical skills to identify growth opportunities in markets at an early stage
• Demonstrates entrepreneurship
• Sound understanding of customer segment
• Promotes diversity and creates an inclusive environment
• Strong communication skills partner relationship skills and team leadership skills
• Negotiation and influence at executive levels
• Coaching and mentoring people to reach success

KPIs

• OI & GMOI mid-term growth (3 to 5 years) growth in line with accounts plans
• Profitable OI for the fiscal year
• Customer satisfaction
• Employee engagement
• Sales expense ratio

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here

Required Experience:

Exec