Regional Sales Manager

CAE; Burgess Hill; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company's Business Aviation Training Centre as a Regional Sales Manager, where you will drive revenues across the UK, France, Italy, and Luxembourg by pursuing new business. The role requires strong sales and marketing expertise, with excellent presentation and negotiation skills, while also offering flexible working hours and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Flexible holiday policy

Flexi-time scheme

Private health insurance (BUPA)

Life Assurance

Competitive commission scheme

Healthcare cash plan

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 to 12 years of relevant experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in business aviation or airline is desirable.
• Fluency in English and knowledge of French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for identifying and converting profitable business opportunities.
• Generate budgets for approval to pursue identified opportunities.
• Negotiate with customers during the bid appraisal stage.

Skills

Sales and marketing experience

Negotiation skills

Presentation skills

Communication

Job description

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Join our Business Aviation Training Centre in Burgess Hill (West Sussex) as Regional Sales Manager where you’ll be part of our global Business and Helicopter Aviation Training Sales team.

The role we are offering you:

You will be responsible for identifying, pursuing and converting profitable business opportunities within CAE’s business unit’s domain. The assigned territory of this role covers the UK, France, Italy and Luxembourg. With a higher emphasis on revenue management, you will also be responsible for generating new business.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Understand the market in which CAE conduct its business, remaining close to the user and relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure that opportunities are identified at the earliest stage to facilitate initial marketing contacts and positioning and to identify competitor’s strengths and weaknesses to determine CAE’s competitive advantage.
• Generate a budget for approval by the Sales Director to pursue the identified opportunities which require external and/or internal resources.
• Ensure that prospective partners are identified that reduces project risks and increase bid discriminators.
• Present a bid strategy to Senior Management, which will highlight the value of the opportunity, the potential partners, the technology requirements, the potential win price and the CAE discriminators.
• Identify and manage the bid team within the agreed budget to meet timescales and Company profitability targets whilst producing a winning bid.
• Negotiate, when appropriate, with the customer during the bid appraisal stage prior to preferred bidder announcement.
• Conclude final pricing, terms and conditions in conjunction with the Senior Management.
• Transfer accountability for project execution to the Programme/Project Manager on completion of the internal contract review.
• Play an active role in Company exhibitions, demonstrations and public relations.
• Minimum of 8 to 12 years of relevant experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Thorough sales and marketing experience within a project environment.
• Experience of managing the bid process.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Fluency in English (mandatory) and French (desirable)

What kind of person will succeed in this team?

You are strong communicator and team player with a selling mentality. As a confident and experienced sales professional, you enjoy working in a deadline driven and fast-paced environment as part of a global team. You are experienced in maintaining a culturally diverse client base in a competitive market and can showcase strong negotiation and presentation skills.

This hybrid position is based at our Business Aviation Training Centre in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. We are offering a full-time and permanent contract. The working hours of the role are Monday to Friday, 39 hours a week. This role requires frequent travel (up to 70%) to the assigned territories.

CAE offers

Attractive benefits including a flexible holiday policy and flexi-time scheme.

Private health insurance (BUPA)

Life Assurance & more!

#LI-MM2

Position Type

Regular

Role and Responsibilities

Join our Business Aviation Training Centre in Burgess Hill (West Sussex) as Regional Sales Manager where you’ll be part of our global Business and Helicopter Aviation Training Sales team.

The role we are offering you:

You will be responsible for identifying, pursuing and converting profitable business opportunities within CAE’s business unit’s domain. The assigned territory of this role covers the UK, France, Italy and Luxembourg. With a higher emphasis on revenue management, you will also be responsible for generating new business.

Key responsibilities of the role:

Understand the market in which CAE conduct its business, remaining close to the user and relevant stakeholders.

Ensure that opportunities are identified at the earliest stage to facilitate initial marketing contacts and positioning and to identify competitor’s strengths and weaknesses to determine CAE’s competitive advantage.

Generate a budget for approval by the Sales Director to pursue the identified opportunities which require external and/or internal resources.

Ensure that prospective partners are identified that reduces project risks and increase bid discriminators.

Present a bid strategy to Senior Management, which will highlight the value of the opportunity, the potential partners, the technology requirements, the potential win price and the CAE discriminators.

Identify and manage the bid team within the agreed budget to meet timescales and Company profitability targets whilst producing a winning bid.

Negotiate, when appropriate, with the customer during the bid appraisal stage prior to preferred bidder announcement.

Conclude final pricing, terms and conditions in conjunction with the Senior Management.

Transfer accountability for project execution to the Programme/Project Manager on completion of the internal contract review.

Play an active role in Company exhibitions, demonstrations and public relations.

Our ideal candidate:

Minimum of 8 to 12 years of relevant experience in a fast-paced environment.

Business aviation or airline experience desirable.

Thorough sales and marketing experience within a project environment.

Experience of managing the bid process.

Ability to work to tight deadlines.

Fluency in English (mandatory) and French (desirable)

What kind of person will succeed in this team?

You are strong communicator and team player with a selling mentality. As a confident and experienced sales professional, you enjoy working in a deadline driven and fast-paced environment as part of a global team. You are experienced in maintaining a culturally diverse client base in a competitive market and can showcase strong negotiation and presentation skills.

Contract details & location

This hybrid position is based at our Business Aviation Training Centre in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. We are offering a full-time and permanent contract. The working hours of the role are Monday to Friday, 39 hours a week. This role requires frequent travel (up to 70%) to the assigned territories.

CAE offers

Attractive benefits including a flexible holiday policy and flexi-time scheme.

Competitive commission scheme

Private health insurance (BUPA)

Healthcare cash plan

Pension scheme

Life Assurance & more!

#LI-MM2

Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.