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Role and Responsibilities

Position Overview

The Execution Solution Lead is part of the Defense and Security (D&S) International Solutions team, which includes training development experts responsible to design complete solutions used by defense forces and para-military organizations around the world. These solutions leverage CAE’s core simulation technologies along with best-in-class teaching methodologies and tools. The targeted end-user base includes the air, naval and land forces domains. The focus and end-goal of the Execution Solution Lead, assigned to various opportunities, is to develop new business through the formal Capture process and by successfully fulfilling their role as a member of the Capture Team, alongside the Integrated Solution Leads and Commercial Leads. The Execution Solution Leads, like other members of the core Capture Team, are accountable to win new business with solutions optimized to meet customer requirements and budgets. At the same time, they must ensure that the offering can be executed and delivered profitably, on schedule, in the most effective manner, with the proper level of commercial and programmatic protection to minimize scope creep, subjective misunderstandings and reduce/mitigate risk.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Support and follow the D&S Lead to Award (L2A) business development process from the initial stages of customer interactions (pre-RFP), through to the Capture and Proposal phases, all the way to contract award for any given opportunity and across the CAE D&S International regions.

• Follow established Execution Solution Lead best practices and knowledge base including guides, tools and templates.

• Support a global Community of Practice network to share information and lessons learned between Execution Solution Leads.

• The Execution Solution Lead’s daily tasks include solution development and validation activities on active opportunities, which include the following deliverables:

• Define a winning execution strategy based on the opportunity Capture Plan

• Lead the preparation of an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)

• Lead the creation, consolidation and validation of Risk and Opportunity registers

• Lead the creation of an Assumption, Dependency and Exclusion register

• Lead the creation and validation of the proposal Management volume, including Project Management Plans, Risk Management Plans, and/or Statements of Work (SOW)

• Ensure that supplier/partner workshare includes proper SOWs and technical requirements documents

• Lead the definition of comprehensive Transition Plans and post-delivery Sustainment Plans

• Prepare Milestone Payment Plans to ensure cash neutrality of programs

• Prepare Export Control plans to enable the transfer and reuse of controlled technical data and parts

• Deliver Solution Reviews and Design-to-Win reviews

• Interface with customers and end-users to present solutions

Required skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, or related field

• Minimum of 5-10 years of related program management leadership experience in industry and/or military service, with 3-5 years focused on the development and/or delivery of training programs in an operational and/or maintenance capacity for the defense sector

• Relevant experience leading medium to large development, training integration or engineering projects with high levels of risk/uncertainty

• PMP certification or equivalent considered an asset

• Previous experience with new business capture and proposal processes for large made-to-order programs, highly desirable

• Good ability to develop capture strategies for new business, leveraging winning themes and discriminators a definite asset

• Knowledge of CAE's products and training solutions, including modeling and simulation capabilities, considered a definite asset

• Relevant training/mentoring experience and skills an asset

• Excellent oral & written communication, as well as presentation skills

• Fluent in both English and French considered an asset

• Good people skills and problem-solving mind set

• Good business acumen and political savvy highly desirable

• Be able to hold a NATO SECRET security clearance

Position Type

Regular

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

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators, surgical manikins, and personalized training programs powered by artificial intelligence. We’re investing our time and resources into building the next generation of cutting-edge, digitally immersive training and critical operations solutions while keeping positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact at the core of our mission. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.