Head of Europe

Avolon Holdings Funding Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Avolon Holdings Funding Limited seeks a world-class leader to oversee aircraft origination and marketing for Europe, based in Dublin. The Head of Europe will drive the regional commercial plan, manage customer relationships from executive level onward, and oversee transactions through sourcing, negotiation, and lifecycle management.

The role requires a dynamic leader with a global mindset, team development focus, and the ability to formulate strategies across diverse markets, while upholding

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex leasing activities in high-pressure situations.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional team management.
• Proven ability to influence at executive level and build networks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Deep understanding of pricing, credit, legal issues in lease deals.

Responsibilities

• Exceed regional financial performance targets through transaction execution (sale/leaseback, placements, remarketing, restructuring, cash collection).
• Nurture and develop airline relationships with a regional engagement plan.
• Effectively manage and develop the Europe team; set objectives and drive performance.
• Develop and implement innovative marketing and sales strategies for new product markets.
• Collaborate with internal partners to ensure best outcomes and strong value drivers.
• Participate in the Customer First Group to address customer and operational matters.

Skills

Leadership

Relationship management

Strategic planning

Communication skills

Negotiation

Mentoring

Team development

Industry network

Decision making

Education

Degree in Business/Finance

Job description

Avolon is a leading global aviation finance company connecting capital with customers to drive the transformation of aviation and the economic and social benefits of global travel. We pride ourselves on our deep customer relationships, our collaborative team approach, and our fast execution. We invest with a long-term perspective, diversifying risk and managing capital efficiently to maintain our strong balance sheet. Working with 138 airlines in 60 countries, Avolon has an owned, managed, and committed fleet of 1,117 aircraft, as of 30 June 2026. www.avolon.aero

The Role:

The Head of Europe will have leadership responsibility for all aircraft origination and marketing activity in the Europe region, reporting to the President & Chief Commercial Officer. The role will be based in Dublin.

While a regional leadership role, as with their peers in other regions, the successful candidate will have a global and collaborative perspective that will deliver optimal outcomes for the business. The person in this key role will manage and develop the strategic commercial plan for the region, with accountability for customer relationship management. They will also have oversight of all transactions in the region, including sourcing, negotiation, internal transaction management, approval process management and transaction life cycle customer management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for Regional Financial Performance: Exceed financial performance targets for the region through superior transaction execution across sale and leasebacks, placements, remarketing, restructuring and cash collection.
• Strategic Customer Engagement: Nurture and develop airline relationships in the region through developing and executing on a customer engagement plan capturing transaction level relationships from Executive level down.
• Insightful People Management : Thoughtful and effective resource management to ensure optimal team size and shape. Establish measurable functional and individual objectives and drive performance against those objectives. Passionately engage with the Europe team’s professional development, taking ownership with team members for their learning and development. Be a willing mentor, informally and/or formally, of other members of the Avolon TRIBE.
• Innovative Thinking: Demonstrate an ability to develop innovate new marketing and sales strategies and to operate in new product markets.
• Internal People and Process Expertise: Demonstrate a keen sense of the importance of internal partners and processes to deliver best outcomes for Avolon. Build powerful relationships across the business, engaging and energising the organisation through understanding value drivers, demonstrating clarity of thought, authority and conviction.
• Avolon Leadership: Membership of the Customer First Group which is a Leadership forum that meets weekly to ensure customer and operational related matters are addressed in a timely matter.

The Person:

The successful candidate will be a world class relationship manager who puts the customer first, an inspiring team leader, an innovator, a collaborative colleague and a resilient and determined person. They will thrive on making difficult decisions in a transparent and high-performance culture. The person will require energy and resourcefulness and is someone who loves to win.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Anticipates and tracks clients’ evolving needs. Champions clients’ agenda internally to shape superior client service. Develops new solutions to add value.
• A history of leading complex leasing activities in high pressure situations. Confident in unfamiliar and challenging circumstances.
• Sophisticated in executing complex activities by achieving through others. As a leader, will have championed a culture of development, empowerment and excellence in their cross functional dealings. Can demonstrate a strong desire to hold Avolon values and culture at core in all interactions.
• An engaging and articulate leader who creates a common sense of purpose and leads by example. A consistent role model for personal and professional development, can effectively manage a team with diversity of experience and background, ensuring that they are supported, engaged and high performing.
• Ability to influence at an operational and executive level and has a strong and internal and external network.
• Exceptional communication that facilitates leading, motivating and collaborating with colleagues from all departments and levels of the business.
• Execution focused and goal orientated - can demonstrate a passion for setting and achieving ambitious targets, with the ability to translate broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans for their region.
• Significant depth and breadth of industry relationships to include senior executive contacts at airlines, OEMs and Lessors, and an ability to deepen business relationships across diverse cultures.
• Comprehensive understanding of technical issues on aircraft and engines, ideally with significant experience of transitioning aircraft.
• Proven depth of commercial ability and understanding of pricing, technical, credit, legal and other issues impacting lease decision-making in the context of delivering on the company business plan.
• A proven track record of managing core operational responsibilities, while simultaneously possessing an outward looking perspective with a capacity to identify and distil emerging industry trends.
• A strong desire to lead and participate in corporate development initiatives.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent work experience in Business, Economics, Finance, Technical, Legal or related field.

The closing date for applications for the role listed above is COB Friday 18th September 2026.

Avolon is an equal opportunities employer, which cultivates opinion, listens to all views with respect, recognises people based on their merits without bias and embraces diversity.