About This Role

The Lead, Business Aviation Strategy manages strategic initiatives, owns and delivers on various market analyses, competitive intelligence, strategic scenarios, and customer insights and will support the annual strategic planning process for the Business Aviation Training business. You will translate your data analytics outputs and results into strategic recommendations and decision support for BAT leaders and their teams. With strong stakeholder relationships, this role ensures business alignment across the different BAT business leaders and collaborates closely with the Civil Strategy & Performance teams to support strategic decision making for Civil’s Executive Leadership.

This role requires a strong financial acumen, strategic thinking, analytics, and enterprise planning. The successful candidate must maintain and have a strong bird’s eye view of the entire business unit.

Be ready for the following responsibilities

• Develop, build and execute strategic initiatives that support BAT’s vision & goals.
• Provide strategic data analysis and recommendations for market, customer and competitor analysis for decision support and to drive strategic objectives for the business unit
• Gather and analyze large amounts of information; develop compelling and insightful strategic recommendations for leadership
• Support the annual 5-year strategic plan for BAT’s executive leadership.
• Lead Business Aviation Executive Reporting for monthly business reviews, quarterly investor activities and Board of Directors requirements
• Support the Enterprise Risk Management processes for Business Aviation while maintaining a long-term outlook.
• Facilitate regional business units in the development of strategic plans with strategic insights, approaches and ensure alignment with overall BAT strategy, based on internal and market analytics
• Support various strategic internal projects including M&A actions with strategic evaluation & analyses

Requirements

• University degree in relevant field. Masters preferred.
• 6-10 years of experience involving strategic problem solving and frameworks, planning and project management skills.
• Having worked in a strategic role or consulting is a plus
• Strong analytical, financial and business acumen
• Extensive knowledge in market analysis, market segmentation, market strategy, and competitive positioning
• Capable of distilling complex problems into concise and compelling summaries for executive decision making; being able to define the ‘So what?’ from the data
• Advanced analytical skills around data collection, manipulation of data, statistics, forecasting, usage of tools, and data reporting
• Strong communication skills
• Talent for building relationships and alignment across a variety of stakeholders and organization levels.
• Proactive and takes full accountability
• Agile mindset - work well under pressure and work with a sense of urgency

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CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

CAE is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As "One CAE," we take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, Veteran status, age, or other legally protected characteristics.  

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the job posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please get in touch with us at rh-hr@cae.com.