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With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.\nExport Services Sales Lead\nRole overview:\nThe Export Services Sales Lead is an important role responsible for growing the UWS UK services sector through growing the sales pipeline and leading prospects through to achieved Order Intake inline with forecasts. UWS’s growing installed base of sonar systems spans over a dozen countries. The candidate will be responsible for sales to provide through life support and managed services to surface ship, airborne and submarine domains, ensuring our customers get the maximum value from the investment they have made in Thales equipment.\nThe role will require extensive liaison with export customers and UK government organisations involved in international trade to secure opportunities that enable the growth of the UWS business line.\nThe Export Services Sales Lead is a key member of the UWS sales team and wider business line.\nPrimary Purpose of the role:\nResponsible for reaching business objectives specifically order intake by managing people, influencing customers and engaging key stakeholders by leading diverse teams, influencing customer decisions and engaging stakeholders at all levels-including ministries of defence and major defence primes.\nDevelopment of a robust OI pipeline through sales, capture leadership, and Business Development activities and ownership of delivery of that pipeline\nMaintain current, establish new and own the strategic relationship with senior members of customer organisation\nMaintain an overview of all Thales programmes and projects being delivered to the customer, and lever off these to provide support / training solutions\nIdentify and capitalise on new business opportunities related to the UWS business line activities\nEstablish strong long term relationships with customers in the UK and targeted countries of interest, this role is about ‘playing the long game’, Thales wants to support our equipment in service with customers, which can often be for 30 years +.\nMain Duties of the role:\nWork closely with the UWS Services Head of Sales & Strategic Campaigns and Services Department to develop a 5+ year strategy delivering OI growth\nConsultative sales and solution leadership to enhance maturity of in-country service provision towards availability and managed services.\nDevelop campaigns and strategies to enable business winning and growth. Leading the UK team and liaising with the BL services teams and country managers globally to ensure global offerings are made where appropriate.\nCapture leadership including sharing capture information with relevant Businesses within Thales\nImprove P2 (Thales chance of winning the opportunity) through customer knowledge\nEngage and establish relationships across other industrial companies that work within the specific account and analyse their capabilities\nGather and own customer information to support business forecasts and bid planning\nEstablish regular outcomes-focused meetings with key customer contacts\nDevelop messages and themes for relevant shows and events\nDe-conflict any issues in internal positioning and strategy to ensure good partnering behaviour is followed\nProvide and translate (where required) customer technical requirements and capability gaps to inform the Product Line Management process\nBuild relationships with relevant Key Account Managers in UK and other countries\nProduce, present and agree relevant capture plans and progress through Thales internal governance (CHORUS) as required for applicable phase of opportunities\n\nCandidate specification:\nStrong understanding of the military maritime environment. Experience of minehunting / services operations would be an advantage\nProven track record of leading major sales captures and bid campaigns (>£10m) for government, institutional, and industrial clients (such as ministries of defence and national primes) in the UK and export (up-to Thales B2)\nExperience of managing cross-functional, multi-national teams to deliver complex engineering solutions including: in underwater services in the military maritime environment across Platform, Sensor and Combat Systems\nComfortable knowledge of the suites of services at Thales including modifications, spares/repairs, ILS, deployed support, tech pubs, obsolescence availability solutions, and DRACAS etc\nA proven track record of developing trusted senior level relationships\nHolding Security Clearance at SC, and ability to achieve up to DV level\nAlongside sales and capture leadership skills strong contract negotiation, bid/project management, and new product introduction expertise would be useful.\nProven experience adept at international stakeholder management.\nAbility externally to shape complex solutions with the customer to lead to customer value propositions from initial whiteboarding through to contract. Internally ability to coach the SDM community to help facilitate best outcomes for Thales.\n\nRecognized for strategic account management, business development, and building senior trusted relationships.\nPersonal Attributes:\n· Has a strong sense of personal accountability and creates a highly accountable, high performance culture at all levels.\n· Comfortable in highly ambiguous situations and able to shape solutions out of complexity; able to ‘shape the fog’ for themselves and others\n· Builds and orchestrates complex multifunctional teams across organisational boundaries\n· Always delivers what is promised, when it is promised; takes steps (puts plans in place and communicates these) to achieve goals; pursues everything with energy, drive and need to finish\n· Makes significant timely, high quality decisions in uncertain and ambiguous contexts\n· Collaborative style, which builds close and trustful relationships both internally and externally.\n· Quickly understands how organisations operate and can read complex political environments; leverages power relationships to optimum effect\n· Handles highly sensitive situations assertively, prepared to push back and challenge at senior levels and customers\nA very high level of integrity and strong moral compass\nAbility to listen and communicate with customers, technical personnel, sales staff, project managers and board members with equal skill.\nCreative, confident, self-driven and inventive, able to originate complex commercial solutions, yet patient and tenacious as required. \nLocation:\nCan be based at a convenient local Thales site but will need to attend Templecombe, Bristol and London as well as international travel when required, you should expect to be on site or with Customers 50% of your time. Thales has a hybrid working model that enables home working when this is suitable for the activities being conducted. #LI-DM1\nAt Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.\nWe are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here.\nIf this role isn’t quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. 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