Sales and Proposal Manager (m/f/o) - Space Industry Luxembourg

  • Full-time

Company Description

The Luxembourg System Integrator for Microsatellites & Aerospace Systems

LuxSpace Sàrl is a member of the OHB group family.

LuxSpace vision is to technologically enable the use of Space by players with great missions on Earth. Leveraging our flight heritage and our 15+ years hands-on experience, our team builds the vision by reshaping the way microsatellite solutions and Space based services are conceived, developed, and delivered.

LuxSpace focuses on:

  • Complete small/ microsatellite systems in the 20-200 Kg class
  • Space systems and subsystems design, specification, procurement, manufacturing, integration, and testing. This includes structure, TT&C subsystems, electronics, Radio Frequency, power supply, AOCS, simulators, on- board software, GSEs and all major elements of satellites
  • Satellite services and applications with a focus on Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Earth Observation (EO)

Our OHB LuxSpace Team is composed of highly skilled and motivated professionals having joined us from more than 20 countries.

LuxSpace offers a dynamic and challenging, multinational, open minded and innovative work environment with a cooperative management culture and flexible working time options.

Job Description

In today’s challenging and dynamic small satellites market, the incumbent’s objective shall be to accelerate the growth of LuxSpace’s market share and revenue as a provider of professional and smart solutions for space missions and space-based services and applications.

Such products and solutions shall be largely based on LuxSpace’s small satellite product line designed to support a broad range of applications in the domains of Earth Observation, Communications, Situational Awareness, Technology Demonstration. The incumbent will develop and capture opportunities integrating the small satellites product line with the Application and Services product line.

The role will be reporting to the Director of Sales and Marketing.

Typical Tasks and Key Results expected include:

  • Identifying business opportunities in accordance with LuxSpace’s strategic goals
  • Building and maintaining key customer relationships
  • Maintaining extensive knowledge of the market and forecasting its evolution
  • Grow LuxSpace annual revenues and backlog
  • Structuring, preparing and delivering proposals for small / microsatellite platforms, as well as for integrated small / microsatellites and application and services
  • Harmonizing the team of contributors to a bid, ensuring a commercially oriented focus of the proposal
  • Negotiate and close deals based on the proposals delivered
  • Other tasks and duties assigned by manager(s)
  • Temporarily or permanently performing other reasonable and equivalent duties

Due to the nature of the role, the position owner will work and interact collaboratively across the company for the pursuit of growth in sales and revenues.

Qualifications

Ideal Candidate Profile:

  • Degree (Bachelor/Master/Diploma) in Engineering, ideally in the Space domain, or equivalent
  • Relevant working experience in a sales environment in the space or related industry
  • Academic background in business administration / sales being an asset

Very good knowledge of the space market and value chain, in 

  • particular in the domain of satellites
  • Very good knowledge of the applications and services part of the space market and its value chain
  • Proven knowledge and working results with institutional and governmental clients, such as LSA, ESA, EU, NATO and others
  • Excellent working experience in proposal management
  • Commercially driven mindset with focus on results and achievements
  • Strong ability to communicate adequately, effectively and to drive results
  • Positive spirit to work and interface with a multinational team
  • Methodical and structured hands-on work approach
  • Taking responsibility and being proactive
  • Readiness to travel for business if needed
  • Willingness to work flexible in line with proposal / project needs and schedules
  • Excellent English skills (spoken and written), other languages, e. g. German and French, being an asset
     
  • In line with applicable (immigration) legislation, all candidates must be eligible to work in Luxembourg / be an EU / EEA citizen and possess all applicable work permissions for Luxembourg.
  • Readiness and eligibility for clearance procedures may be required from candidates.

Additional Information

Work Environment:

  • Dynamic, innovative, challenging
  • Join our team of highly skilled and motivated professionals.
  • Living and working in Luxembourg info: www.guichet.lu 

Framework Information:

  • Permanent employment contract
  • Full-time (40 h / week)
  • Flexible working time options

Your Online Application:

  • Please in English language
  • Let us know your motivation
  • Submit your Curriculum Vitae (Europass appreciated)
  • Kindly include your salary expectations (EUR annual gross)

Please apply solely online via our LuxSpace Career Website. Thank you!

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