Sales Director - Aerospace & Defense

Celestica Inc.; Malaysia; Remote; MYR 506,000 - 634,000; Full time

Job summary

A global aerospace solutions provider seeks a passionate Sales Director to engage with customers in the Aerospace and Defense sector. The ideal candidate will have sales expertise, fluent English and French skills, and a proven track record in business development. Key responsibilities include building customer relationships, targeting new accounts in Germany, and managing sales initiatives. This is a remote position with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and French.
• 3+ years in business development in Aerospace and Defense.
• Experience in high complex service selling.
• Understanding of A&D industry trends.
• Proven track record in developing new clients.

Responsibilities

• Target new customer engagements in the Germany region.
• Develop long-lasting relationships with customers.
• Manage overall customer relationship and business proposals.
• Gain competitive intelligence in the A&D market.
• Work collaboratively with customer teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Relationship management

Sales skills

Strategic planning

Decision-making skills

Negotiation skills

Consultative solution selling

Team collaboration

Education

Business and/or Engineering degree

Job description

Date: Sep 10, 2025

Location: Remote Employee Europe, SHR, GB

Functional Area: MBD - Marketing & Business Development

Career Stream: SAL - Sales

Role: Director 1

Job Title: Sales Director 1

Job Code: DR1-MBD-SALE

Band: Level 12

Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Overview

Summary: At Celestica, our people make the difference.

We are looking for a Sales Director who is passionate and results-oriented to be part of our global A&D organization. If you are a highly motivated individual who can align unique insights to key customer priorities and can engage customers by deliberately linking their business priorities to our value propositions, then we want you on our team.

Job Overview: As the Sales Director, you will be responsible for targeting new customer engagements within the Germany region across various submarkets in the Aerospace and Defense space.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong and long-lasting insight based relationships with our customers and identify mobilizers. The incumbent will act as the primary sales interface for several accounts on a regional basis. More specifically:
• Investigates potential new opportunities within the account
• Identify, develop new accounts in Germany region
• Gains competitive intelligence and always ties insights back to our unique strengths in the A&D market
• Creates opportunities to provide a unique and contrarian perspective during commercial conversations and is able to reframe the way customers view their business
• Have deep knowledge of customer’s business current macro and microeconomic trends, A&D industry trends and potential new business opportunities
• Engages the customer by deliberately tying their business priorities to our value proposition
• Manages the overall customer relationship process while supporting business development in the planning and execution of the account strategies, tactics and selling propositions.
• Acts as the Customer advocate to ensure that the organization remains customer-focused.
• Acts as the main focal point to understand customers needs and requests, manages them and delivers business proposals and RFQ responses to customers.
• Establishes value before ROI/financial terms. Is able to qualify and quantify the impact of maintaining the status quo or pursuing competitor’s solutions.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management and professional sales skills
• Have the ability to work on, and close, multiple prospects simultaneously
• Experience in high complex service selling within the Aerospace and Defense market segment
• Understanding of technical and process fundamentals related to electronics and electromechanical products used in the A&D industry and associated compliance standards (AS9100, FAA)
• Understanding of the A&D Product Development Process from Concept to Qualification
• Proven track record of developing business with new clients / developing new markets led by a technical background (either in manufacturing or engineering)
• Fostering and building relationships with existing clients as required
• Strong strategic planning and execution skills
• Ability to understand Profit and Loss modeling and sales impacts to improving customer financials
• Value based consultative solution selling, business judgment, negotiation and decision-making skills
• Experience working and selling with senior level executives
• Experience working directly with customer Engineering, SCM and Manufacturing Teams in the co development of products, supply chain architecture and manufacturing process development
• Exceptional ability to work with others as part of a cross-functional team
• Experience working with vast remote cross-functional teams in large matrix organizations
• Demonstrated ability to have successfully carried a sales, revenue or operational quota gains
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in business development and client relations specifically related to Aerospace and Defense products (strong network into the A&D industry is required)
• Languages: Fluent English and French
• Education: Minimum Business and/or Engineering degree preferred
• Business Travel is required 25-50%

Qualifications

Same as responsibilities above with emphasis on strong strategic planning, relationship management, and cross-functional collaboration in the Aerospace & Defense sector.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law). At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW: Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted. Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.