Sales & Business Development Manager; Land EW

Overview

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Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title - Sales and Business Development Manager (Land EW)
Job Location - Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, UK Job - 33056

About this opportunity and L3

Harris UK From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide. L3

Harris in Tewkesbury is our HQ for our Intelligence & Cyber International division; we work closely with Government, Security agencies and military in UK, 5E, NATO and internationally. In the land domain, our T7 and T4 multi-mission robots deliver next-generation remote capabilities and uncompromised performance. We design and manufacture world-leading land force protection systems, cyber and electromagnetic activities (CEMA), electronic warfare (EW) and encryption capabilities.

Our cyber capabilities provide an information advantage in the fields of kinetic conflict, cyber warfare, force protection and counter terrorism. Due to the growth of the business, L3

Harris is seeking a Sales and Business Development Manager for the EW team. A few of our employee benefits are:

• Responsible for the Business Development and Sales activities in allocated sectors and regions, to achieve defined annual order intake targets and profitability in line with the divisional Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and published strategy.
• Development and creation of quotes/proposals aligned to the customer requirement in a timely manner to hit customer requested deadlines and demonstrate responsiveness.
• Support and manage defined customer Accounts to grow the Account revenue.
• Management and reporting on status of opportunities to the wider business and SLT members, demonstrating a clear plan to closure.
• Develop and maintain respective KPIs relating to order forecast accuracy, win rate and opportunity pipeline effectiveness.
• Grow Customer Funded Development (CFD) opportunities in current & new areas, leading to the funding of current technology roadmaps, new product streams and wider business prospects.
• Accountable for systematically analysing the market, customers and competitors in a defined region to deliver a highly accurate, rolling 5-year divisional order forecast and prospect pipeline.

• Essential
  
  Skills:
  
  Minimum SC Cleared and a willingness (and capability) to achieve DV
• Background within Land EW domain (either in Defence, Industry or both).
• Closing sales opportunities of circa £5m as well as further developing and building the orders pipeline.
• Proven and demonstrable experience in defence and / or national security industry.
• Ability to build and maintain a network of contacts spanning the Defence domain of interest.
• Effective relationship management and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to interact and lead internal teams and external senior customers across all levels.
• Track record of business development best practice in developing business winning campaigns and effective capture plans to close complex prospects.
• Excellent negotiator, experienced at managing and resolving conflicts.
• Willingness to regularly travel to customers and exhibitions in UK and overseas.
• Full driving licence.

• A background in working with or selling to MOD is advantageous but not essential
• Experience of sales to FVEY's / NATO military customers is desirable but not essential -…