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Job Title: Regional Sales Director Europe

Job ID: 12072

Job Location: We are looking for candidates to be based either in Crawley, United Kingdom or Europe (ideally France, Germany or Netherlands)

Candidates must have the right to work for the country they are applying from.

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris Commercial Aviation provides holistic solutions across a wide range of services to airlines, operators and airframe manufacturers within the commercial aviation industry. Our integrated solutions work to make air travel safer, more efficient and more effective. Our expertise extends across on-aircraft avionics, flight data monitoring and analysis and the complete pilot training offering. L3Harris Commercial Aviation, working together to build tomorrow’s safer skies.

We are currently seeking a Regional Sales Director who will be responsible for business development and sales delivery within the EUR geographical region for L3Harris Commercial Aviation Sector’s (CAS) worldwide products and services.

Candidate must have a Customer First mindset and the competence and conscientiousness to build sales capture strategies to meet and exceed the CAS sales target through the sale of the CAS products and services portfolio in their region. They must be exemplary team players and be able to Own-It: set accountabilities for themselves and within the team whilst holding others to account for their commitments. They must be able to Speak Candidly with their team, colleagues and customers and create a performance driven culture within their team and have the grace and interpersonal skills to inspire and motivate others to exceed expectations. They will have the proven ability to manage and build relationships with C-Suite representatives of airlines and training centers. The candidate is expected to Move Fast and recognize the value trade-offs of agile decision making whilst being self-sufficient and working under limited guidance to exercise strategic and independent judgment and self-direction in managing priorities.

Must have the ability to coordinate and fulfil competing goals, tasks, projects and customers simultaneously.

International travel will be as required in the role and the option to work from home 1 day a week is available.

Key Responsibilities

Duties include:

• To lead a regional sales team and deliver the CAS regional orders, revenue, EBIT and FCF targets through the deployment of a consultative selling capabilities and leadership.

• Utilize a consultative sales approach relying on technical sales, design & engineering teams to understand the customer’s objective and ideate on the most pragmatic and effective solutions.

• Deploy the CAS sales process and own the order to cash process through personal example and the coaching of their teams to inspire a high performance sales culture.

• To report and forecast the quarterly and annual sales outcome for their region and identify and assess all risks and opportunities against their targets by month, quarter and financial year.

• To be aware of the geopolitical and macro-economic impacts on their region, be outward looking and acutely aware of competitor behavior and activity in their market

• To be able to construct compelling bid proposals with cogent and credible capture strategies and PTW analysis. The capability to identify the customer benefits of a bundle product and service proposal using the CAS portfolio to discriminate (in terms of value) to customers

• Seek and hunt out new and repeat business opportunities, by building strong customer relationships and anticipating the customers’ requirements

• Coordination and compliance with Bids & Proposals processes for customer Requests for Quote (RFQ), Requests for Information (RFI) and preparing responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs).

• Ownership of capturing 95% of all opportunities and maintaining the quality of data in managing the sales pipeline within the CAS CRM system

• Ownership of maintaining of the inputs for their region into the CAS Source of truth (SoT) tool to achieve accuracy of forecast within 5% within the quarter and 10% within the year

• Managing cross-functional/cross-company stakeholders in bid preparation, building proposals and securing financial approval.

• Ensure that revenue and order intake targets are achieved or exceeded on a quarterly and annual basis for all products, services and integrated solutions

• Assist and input into negotiating purchase agreements

• Optimize cash collection and propose payment schedules to achieve maximum cash within the quarter

• Openly demonstrate a passion for customers and a will to win in a competitive market

• Other duties and responsibilities as requested by responsible manager

  The chosen candidate will work within a matrix organization with local divisions’ (Phoenix, AZ; Grand Rapids, MI, Burnsville, MN, St Petersburg, FL and Crawley, UK) cross-functional teams providing leadership in the implementation of the growth strategies for the commercial market including, account management, pricing recommendations and tactical activities. Domestic and international travel is required. Position reports to Vice President Sales & Marketing, CAS

  Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Engineering or must possess equivalent industry experience

• MBA would be an advantage along with advanced Excel and CRM system skills.

• 7 – 15 years related experience in sales and services including customer facing experience

• Must have experience with selling commercial-off-the-shelf (“COTS”) products & aftermarket services to airline and OEM customers

• Ability to effectively manage all stages of the sales cycle (forecasting, matching solutions and value propositions, developing solicitations, requests for information, source-approval-requests, bids & proposals, building customer rapport, negotiating and ability to close the deal)

• Strong computer skills in MS Word, Excel, Vizio, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook are required.

• Commercially driven and energized sales professional who operates with a sense of urgency and bias for action.

• Demonstrated and proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets through effective prospecting, relationship building, problem solving, solution development and negotiating.

• Outstanding communication skills both written and verbal, must be very articulate.

• Must be a high energy, resourceful and a creative thinker.

  Preferred Additional Skills:

• Advanced excel and analysis skills to identify market trends.

• A skilled presenter through use of PowerPoint in the presentation of bids

• Experience of bidding development programs such as data analytics services

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.