Customer Business Developer

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* Job Description:

******** SECURITY CLEARANCE:
**** You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check)
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* TRAVEL REQUIRED:

**** Some travel within UK and international
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* LOCATION:

** Filton** (60% of your working week must be office based)
**** TYPE:
**** Full time
**** WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU****
* **** Financial Reward:
**** Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, shopping discounts and much more
* **** Work / Life Balance:
**** 35 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, flexible working, option to buy/sell holiday
* **** Personal Development:
**** Personalised development plan, and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities
* **** Health & Wellbeing:
**** Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga / meditation
* **** Family and Caregiving:
**** Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving and purpose built maternity rooms on site
* **** Inclusive Environment:
**** Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)
Our world is changing. And so are we. From our commitment to zero-carbon flight **()
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** Join our international Customer Business Development team at Airbus, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and Tools business. In this position, you will bridge the gap between our engineering experts, commercial partners at Satair, and major airlines worldwide to drive departmental growth. You will translate real-market needs into profitable, high-tech solutions, ensuring our customers have the innovations they need to keep flying.
**** HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE TEAM
***** You will analyze customer pain points to fuel our New Product Development (NPD) pipeline, creating comprehensive business cases and feasibility studies for future "Go/No-Go" decisions.
* Working alongside Satair, you will guide key airline partners and MROs toward the most efficient maintenance solutions and provide expert product training.
* You will serve as the "Voice of the Customer" internally, liaising with our Design Offices to transform airline feedback into customized, validated engineering solutions.
* You will represent Airbus at regional trade fairs and Material Readiness Conferences (MRC), delivering technical presentations that secure buy-in for our regional sales strategies.
* You will balance urgent customer demands with long-term engineering goals, managing the journey from initial concept to on-site tool validation at customer facilities.
**** ABOUT YOU
***** You hold a relevant qualification in Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Industrial) or Business Administration with a strong technical aptitude.
* You have early-career experience or strong internships within the aviation industry, preferably in an MRO, airline engineering department, or aerospace OEM.
* You are comfortable working with data to build and defend business cases, utilizing skills in financial forecasting and SWOT analysis.
* You possess a strong understanding of aircraft maintenance and can communicate complex technical specifications fluently to both engineers and commercial teams.
* You have exceptional stakeholder management skills, capable of building consensus across a multinational ecosystem of internal teams and external partners.
**** HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU
**** Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request. Please let us know if you need us to…