Business Development Associate

Safran Electronics & Defense; Wolverhampton; Vor Ort; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Safran is seeking a Business Development Manager to support aftermarket sales growth across Large Commercial, Regional & Business and Helicopter segments in the assigned UK territory. The role focuses on building a 12-24 month strategic pipeline, maintaining pipeline coverage, and driving revenue with strong customer relationships.

You will leverage market insights, manage RFQ/bid processes, and collaborate on marketing plans.

Qualifikationen

• Familiar with the aerospace aftermarket industry practices and business models.
• Knowledge of helicopter, regional & business and civil aircraft markets.
• Technical understanding of flight controls and hydraulic systems an advantage.
• Cultural agility to work across all customers and internal facilities.
• Business and commercial acumen.
• Existing customer relationships preferred.
• Ability to perform detailed business analytics using Excel and Power BI.
• Degree in Business preferred and a degree in Aerospace Engineering an advantage.
• Can actively seek out opportunities to leverage the wider organisation.
• Curious, always learning & promotes learning culture.
• Establishes meaningful relationships; empathetic.
• Strong analytical skills and may come from a finance background.

Aufgaben

• Builds and maintains a robust 12-24 month strategic opportunity pipeline aligned to priority platforms and customers.
• Maintains pipeline coverage greater than annual sales target with clear conversion milestones (incremental opportunities that delivery sales plan with factored probability)
• Leverage market insight and customer engagement
• Ensures sustainable long-term growth
• Holds monthly pipeline reviews.
• Further enhance RFQ and bid management processes to improve speed, quality, and win rates of non-contacted work
• Drives improve bid win rate, Reduce RFQ turnaround time and ensures on-time bid submission.
• Build on process improvements already implemented
• Directly drives revenue and customer satisfaction
• Supports development and deployment of marketing plan
• Supports identification of route cause and execute corrective action to ensure issues resolution
• Gather, collate and feedback market intelligence to the Business Intelligence and Proposal team
• Develop and enhance customer relationships and interactions to ensure business growth.

Kenntnisse

Aerospace aftermarket knowledge

Aircraft market knowledge

Flight controls & hydraulics

Excel & Power BI analytics

Customer relationships

Business & commercial acumen

Opportunity identification

Curiosity & learning culture

Empathy & relationships

Finance analytics background

Ausbildung

Bachelor's in Business

Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Jobbeschreibung

The primary objective of this role is to support the delivery of the aftermarket sales, Intake plan and growth targets for Large Commercial, Regional & Business and Helicopter business segments within the assigned territory. Typically, this would be circa $180M pa.

Be part of a small team of Business Development Managers that including oversight, business objectives, performance management and customer relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains a robust 12-24 month strategic opportunity pipeline aligned to priority platforms and customers.
• Maintains pipeline coverage greater than annual sales target with clear conversion milestones (incremental opportunities that delivery sales plan with factored probability)
• Leverage market insight and customer engagement
• Ensures sustainable long-term growth
• Holds monthly pipeline reviews.
• Further enhance RFQ and bid management processes to improve speed, quality, and win rates of non-contacted work
• Drives improve bid win rate, Reduce RFQ turnaround time and ensures on-time bid submission.
• Build on process improvements already implemented
• Directly drives revenue and customer satisfaction
• Supports development and deployment of marketing plan
• Supports identification of route cause and execute corrective action to ensure issues resolution
• Gather, collate and feedback market intelligence to the Business Intelligence and Proposal team
• Develop and enhance customer relationships and interactions to ensure business growth.

Skills & Experience

• Familiar with the aerospace aftermarket industry practices and business models.
• knowledge of helicopter, regional & business and civil aircraft markets.
• Technical understanding of flight controls and hydraulic systems an advantage.
• Cultural agility to work across all customers and internal facilities.
• Business and commercial acumen.
• Existing customer relationships preferred.
• Ability to perform detailed business analytics using Excel and Power Business Intelligence.
• Degree in Business preferred and a degree in Aerospace Engineering an advantage.
• Can actively seek out opportunities to leverage the wider organisation
• Curious, always learning & promotes learning culture
• Establishes meaningful relationships; empathetic
• Strong analytical skills and may come from a finance background