Airbus

Sales Contract Negotiator

Airbus$90K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience with international commercial teams
  • 5+ years of negotiation experience in the aviation industry
  • Strong knowledge of international contract law
  • Master's degree in business or international contracts law preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to draft complex agreements with attention to detail

Responsibilities

  • Define commercial strategy and sales objectives
  • Draft and negotiate various sales contract documents
  • Align contractual obligations with Airbus' internal objectives
  • Monitor and renegotiate contracts based on changing customer requirements
  • Ensure key information is communicated across relevant Airbus entities
  • Validate business control sheets for contractual integrity
  • Provide updates to management on negotiation statuses

Benefits

  • 80% onsite and 20% remote work flexibility
  • Frequent business travel opportunities
  • Access to a global network of industry professionals
  • Work with high-value contracts worth millions to billions
  • Engagement with multiple departments within a major aerospace organization
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Job Summary:

Your main accountability in the regional LatAm & Caribbean Business Unit (BU) is the contractual integrity of any agreement entered

into between Airbus and any of its customers handled by such regional Business Unit.

Such contractual integrity entails that documentation strictly and unambiguously reflects all aspects of the commercial, technical or

other agreement reached between the Customer and Airbus, while limiting in an optimal manner the implicit or explicit costs and

risks triggered by the obligations entered into by Airbus pursuant to such agreement.

You will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and amending contractual documentation and making contractual and commercial

decisions in line with the commercial objectives of Airbus and in compliance with applicable approval processes.

Primary Responsibilities:

Main tasks and responsibilities include:

  • Participating in the definition of commercial strategy, sales objectives and business rationales

  • Drafting, negotiating with customers and amending individual sales contract documents (Proposals, including Letters of Intent, Memoranda of Understanding, Purchase Agreements and Amendments, Lease Agreements, as applicable) in order toreflect in detail the mutual obligations of Airbus and its customers as globally negotiated by the regional LatAm & Caribbean Business Unit while guaranteeing that the contractual documentation accurately reflects internal approvals

  • Ensuring that the contracted obligations and returns are consistent with (or represent the best compromise between)Airbus’ industrial, technical, legal or any other constraints or capabilities and the LatAm & Caribbean Business Unitobjectives, in particular as regards deal profitability and risks

  • Monitoring the fulfillment of customer obligations and re-negotiate contracts to cope with Customer changingrequirements, defaults or contentious issues as they may arise

  • Ensuring that information concerning negotiated commitments is made available to all relevant Airbus entities liable tofulfill these commitments, and provide advice or clarifications on the background as may be necessary

  • Validating each business control sheet (or other business control e-tools) with a view to verifying the contractual integrity ofthe transaction documentation

  • Ensuring that the risks and obligations created by the negotiated Sales Contracts are acceptable to Airbus and approved

  • Providing timely and succinct briefing to line management on status of negotiations

Qualified Experience and Training:

Required

  • 12+ years of experience in working with international commercial teams, either in a support function or directly in a
    customer facing role.

  • 5+ years of experience in negotiation in an international context, ideally in the aviation industry

  • Knowledge of contract law in an international context

  • Master degree in business, or international contracts law.(preferred)

Travel Required:

  • up to 50% International

  • This role will involve frequent travel for business in the region and worldwide and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Citizenship:

  • Eligible to work in the US

Clearance:

  • None required

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:
Required:

  • Good relationship skills,

  • Team player,

  • Good presentation skills,

  • Ability to work in a demanding and quickly changing environment,

  • Ability to convince and take initiatives,

  • Knowledge of financial tools,

  • Proven drafting skills and a strong sense of rigor.

Communication Skills:

  • Languages skills: negotiation level in English
  • Spanish & French a plus

Technical Systems Proficiency:

  • Google Suit tools (doc, sheet, slides)

  • Microsoft Word

Complexity of the Role:
Negotiations occur in high pressure environments, with a wide range of different customers and company cultures. The
successful candidate will be negotiating with various levels of management at our customers' facilities, from CEOs and CFOs to
engineers and fleet planning specialists. Adaptability, assertiveness and diplomacy are required with an ability to manage
people9s emotions.

Level of Decision Making:

  • You will participate in the elaboration of the commercial strategy for her/his accounts

  • You will make tactical decisions during the course of the commercial campaigns and negotiations

  • The decisions you make will impact the outcome of the campaign, and will commit Airbus to deliver to the extent documented in the contract.

Organizational information:
Direct Reports:
Is this a people manager? No

The role involves significant coordination across different departments within the Airbus organization, including the commercial,
engineering, customer services, programs, and finance departments. The Sales Contracts Director must bring Airbus resources
together to come to provide Airbus customers with a commercial and technical solution that beats the competition while
meeting Airbus9 internal priorities.

Job Dimensions:
The value of transactions you will take responsibility for amounts to hundreds of million of dollars (for small contracts comprising
a few aircraft), often tens of billions of dollars (for contracts covering high volumes of aircraft), with the associated risks and
challenges for the company. Your role is to successfully negotiate deals to closure while ensuring that the company is not
exposed to unacceptable risks, and all industrial and commercial elements of the transaction are understood by our
headquarters and aligned with internal approvals.


Nature of Contacts:

  • Internally, the interaction ranges from Airbus Commercial CEO when required, to working level specialists, with regular engagement with SVP, VP and Band IV management level.
  • With customers, depending on the campaigns and airlines, negotiations with every level from CEO, CFO, VP flight operations, VP engineering, VP Fleet Planning... to technical, commercial and financial specialists with regular involvement at General Manager and VP level.

Physical Requirements:

  • Onsite or remote: 80% on site, 20% remote
  • Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents and reports. Reading the screen or paper is 75% of the time.
  • Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone on a daily basis.
  • Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications on a daily basis
  • Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment
  • Carrying: able to carry documents and personal computer, carry hand luggage through airports for travel.
  • Lifting: able to lift documents, personal computers and luggage when traveling.
  • Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer on a daily basis.
  • Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices on a daily basis.
  • Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice up to 50% of the time
  • Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and airports during travel

Company:

Airbus Americas, Inc.

Employment Type:

US - Direct Hire

Experience Level:

Professional

Remote Type:

Job Family:

Sales, Marketing & Commercial Contracts

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Job Posting End Date: 06.30.2026

About Airbus

Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells civil and military aeronautical products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Airbus, Airbus Helicopters, and Airbus Defence and Space. The Airbus segment develops, manufactures, markets, and sells commercial jet aircraft of approximately 100 seats; and regional turboprop aircraft and aircraft components, as well as provides aircraft conversion and related services. The Airbus Helicopters segment develops, manufactures, markets, and sells civil and military helicopters; and offers helicopter related services. The Airbus Defence and Space segment develops, manufactures, markets, and sells military aircraft, such as combat, mission, transport, and tanker aircraft; and missile systems, military satellites, and defence electronics, as well as provides defence related services. The company was formerly known as Airbus Group SE and changed its name to Airbus SE in April 2017. Airbus SE was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Blagnac, France.
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