Description The Manager, Business Development plays a central role in driving AAR Component Services' global commercial success. This position leads the coordination, development, and delivery of bid and proposal activity across multiple ACS sites, ensuring accuracy, competitiveness, and alignment with customer requirements. The role also owns key business development data systems, pricing intelligence, and capability management for the global ACS network.
This is a highly visible, cross-functional role that supports strategic growth initiatives and will increasingly provide leadership and guidance to new team members as ACS expands its business development and data operations footprint.
What you will be responsible for:
- Lead end-to-end bid and proposal activity for all ACS sites and global customers.
• Conduct kickoff meetings, define requirements, and coordinate capability alignment across facilities.
• Develop bidding instructions, collect pricing inputs, and assemble complete proposal packages.
• Maintain the ACS RFP database, business development pipeline, and opportunity tracker.
• Build and update the ACS MRO pricing catalog using historical bid data.
• Maintain and update the global ACS capability list.
• Support data analysis, reporting, and other business development projects.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, pricing, and commercial teams.
• Provide guidance to new team members as ACS expands its data and business development functions.
Qualifications• Bachelor's degree preferred (Business, Aviation, Finance, or related field).
• 5-7 years of experience in pricing, proposals, business development, or commercial operations.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills
• Experience coordinating multi-site or multi-stakeholder commercial activity.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities
Year One Critical Success Factors :
• Reliable, High-Quality Bid & Proposal Execution
• Strengthened Business Development Data Infrastructure
• Improved Visibility and Accuracy of ACS Capabilities
• Demonstrated Cross-Functional Coordination Across ACS Sites
• Data-Driven Insights That Support ACS Growth
