Aequs is Hiring For Account and Program Management

Aequs; Belagavi District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Aequs in India seeks an experienced Senior Aerospace Program/Accounts Manager to own strategic accounts, lead governance, and translate forecasts into internal plans.

You will drive end-to-end program execution with a focus on on-time, on-cost, and on-quality delivery, while managing financial performance and regulatory compliance across Aerostructures, Engines, and Landing Systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of aerospace program/account management with end-to-end ownership.
• Experience across Aerostructures and Engines, Landing Systems segments.
• Proven ability to manage complex customer programs including demand planning, forecasting, and financial performance.
• Strong business data analytics and relevant tools.
• Leadership across cross-functional and matrixed teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, and quality.
• Solid understanding of aerospace regulatory, quality, and contractual requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic account ownership and governance with senior customer interfaces.
• Lead cross-functional program teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and logistics.
• Drive end-to-end program initiation, execution, and performance against schedule, cost, and quality.
• Manage program financials including revenue, margins, and variance mitigation.
• Proactively identify risks and drive mitigation plans.
• Lead change management including scope changes and contract amendments.
• Ensure compliance with aerospace quality, regulatory, and contractual requirements.

Skills

Strategic account management

Forecasting

Demand planning

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Financial management

Regulatory compliance

Change management

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Aerospace data analytics

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Strategic Account Ownership: Act as the senior owner of strategic aerospace customer accounts, ensuring strong relationships, trust, and high customer satisfaction.
• Customer Governance Leadership: Serve as the primary customer interface, leading governance meetings, performance reviews, and executivelevel communications.
• Demand Planning Ownership: Own endtoend customer demand management, translating forecasts into actionable internal plans.
• Forecast Accuracy Management: Lead forecast validation, reconciliation, and accuracy improvement in collaboration with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Integrated Business Planning: Drive integrated business planning alignment to ensure demand, capacity, inventory, and financial plans are fully synchronized.
• CrossFunctional Leadership: Lead crossfunctional program teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and logistics.
• Matrix Team Direction: Provide clear direction, priorities, and accountability to matrixed internal teams supporting customer programs.
• Program Initiation Leadership: Initiate programs postcontract award, defining scope, milestones, governance, risks, and success metrics.
• Program Execution Excellence: Own endtoend program execution, ensuring ontime, oncost, and onquality delivery.
• Financial Performance Management: Manage program financials, including revenue, margins, cost controls, and variance mitigation.
• Risk Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues impacting delivery or customer commitments.
• Change Contract Control: Lead change management, including scope changes, customer modifications, and contract amendments.
• Regulatory Quality Compliance: Ensure full compliance with aerospace quality, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
• Continuous Improvement Growth: Drive continuous improvement, lessons learned, and account growth opportunities through execution excellence.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Business, or a related field; Masters degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in aerospace program/account management with end-to-end ownership.
• Experience and exposure across aerospace Aerostructures and specially on Engines, Landing Systems business segment.
• Proven ability to manage complex customer programs, including demand planning, forecasting, and financial performance.
• Strong business data analytics and relevant tools. 6. Strong leadership experience leading cross-functional and matrixed teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, and quality.
• Solid understanding of aerospace regulatory, quality, and contractual requirements