Sales Director – Radars

Ready to shape major radar wins

We are looking for a senior capture and sales leader to grow Saabs radar business from the UAE across priority markets. You will own the end-to-end capture strategyfrom early opportunity shaping through contract awardworking closely with engineering operations and group stakeholders.

Reporting line: Head of Business Development & Sales (Saab UAE)

Location: UAE (with international travel)

What youll do

Market & capture leadership

• Own and execute the radar growth and capture strategy aligned to the companys long-term plan and 5-year business plan.
• Identify qualify and shape new radar opportunities (domestic and export) including partners integrators and channel strategies.
• Drive customer engagement plans stakeholder mapping and win strategies (including competitive positioning and price-to-win approach).

Bid & proposal leadership

• Lead major pursuits through Saabs winning business process: capture plans win themes solution shaping internal gates and executive reviews.
• Direct proposal management: coordinate technical operational legal finance and pricing inputs to deliver compliant compelling submissions.
• Negotiate commercial terms and support contract finalization.

Customer & stakeholder management

• Build and sustain trust-based relationships with government military and industry stakeholders (end users procurement and prime/integrator ecosystems).
• Translate operational needs into technically feasible solutions in close collaboration with engineering teams.

Business intelligence & governance

• Maintain and develop a robust opportunity pipeline including forecasting order intake planning and management reporting.
• Drive market intelligence (competitors trends accessible markets barriers offsets/localization where relevant).

What you bring (Qualifications)

Must-have

• 8 years of progressive experience in defense sales/capture/business development with experience in radar/sensors ISR air defense or C2-adjacent solutions.
• Engineering degree or similar military technical background
• Demonstrated record of winning B2G / military procurements (large multi-stakeholder high-compliance pursuits).
• Strong capture competence: opportunity shaping win strategy competitive analysis price-to-win and bid governance.
• Ability to communicate credibly with both technical and operational audiences (engineering teams and military end users).
• Excellent English communication (written and verbal). (Arabic is a plus.)
• High integrity and compliance mindset (export controls anti-corruption customer due diligence).
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.
• Ability to obtain required security clearances / background checks.

Preferred

• Experience in Middle East markets and/or international export campaigns.
• Experience working with primes/integrators and partnerships (incl. teaming agreements local partners).
• Familiarity with lifecycle business (support upgrades sustainment) and value-based solution selling.
• People leadership or matrix leadership experience (leading pursuits bid teams or a sales/capture team).

This position requires that youwill be approvedin a security vetting in accordanceto ISO:27001

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