
Business Development Manager
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Sales and marketing of new aircraft sale.
- Focus on new business development, relationship building, intelligence gathering, as well as identifying/supporting key customer accounts in region. Identify shifting trends, political or financial changes and implement strategies to protect BHT business base.
- Develop and implement strategic sales plans for all near term and long-term opportunities in region.
- Interface with service sites, Commercial Regional Sales Managers, and customers to define customer requirements directly or in support of aircraft sales. Provide quotations and follow up until purchase agreement is secured.
- Visit and sell to key Customer Service Facilities in your assigned region on a quarterly basis.
- Continually review and analyze marketing information including prepared reports and professional periodicals and news sources indigenous to territory.
- Partner with the Sales organization to prepare formal and informal proposals requiring coordination with pricing, applications engineering, and marketing data.
- Drive accurate sales forecasts.
- Demonstrated aviation or aircraft and sales experience.
- Must be able to work autonomously and with team.
- Proven track record of driving aircraft or aftermarket sales.
- Experience in global sales and strategy plans to drive growth in aftermarket, support and service offerings for durable goods or aerospace products.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a complex, geographical distributed organization with multiple value streams.
- Critical competencies include drive for results, ambition an energy, perseverance, political savvy, listening.
- Excellent communication, influencing, negotiating, leadership and relationship-building skills.
- Solid customer partnering skills. Proficiency in using customer requirements and feedback to help design customized solutions.
- Ability to anticipate and skillfully manage through challenges.
- Candidate must have, or be able to obtain, the legal right to conduct business in all countries within his/her assigned region.
- Expertise in Microsoft Office is required.
- Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively interface at all levels of the customer chain of command, as well as within the Textron Enterprise
- Aerospace background (OEM/Operator)
- Salesforce.com experience
- Airframe and power plant license and/or pilot license
- Military helicopter pilot