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Join an award winning, dynamic, and growing business development team that provides mission critical business skills across a vibrant, growing, and diverse portfolio of opportunities in the BAE Systems Electronic Systems Sector. The opportunity to be part of the International Business Development Team, in one of the leading companies in Aerospace and Defense companies, offers a motivated professional a unique leadership position to work across a broad range of activities that supports the sector business development leadership team, the business areas and senior leadership.Develop your career and grow your skills in a high intensity, team-based environment with a business winning culture that provides an opportunity to interact daily with key leaders across the sector, international partners and customers, and U.S. government representatives. As the Offset and Industrial Cooperation Director for the sector, you will have the opportunity to influence the environment within major international BAE Systems markets within which the Business can identify, qualify, and achieve successful orders and with a shared accountability with the business areas. In coordination with the VP International BD for ES, the VP/GMs within ES, and the BAE Systems Inc. VP International BD, you will develop and maintain related policies and procedures, as well as long-term strategies and advise on Offset and Industrial Cooperation plans for specific international opportunities for the Electronic Systems Sector. You will be responsible for providing the understanding of international customer needs as well as developing relationships with industrial partners and international government officials, ensuring that ES remains engaged with industry and government leadership at appropriate levels. You will assist in growing the business by building international partner and customer connections and assisting with connecting existing products and technologies to current or emerging needs. Work products and interactions will be at multiple levels, from the leadership team down and across the entire multi-billion-dollar sector organization. This is a very hands-on position with deep involvement in almost all sector Offset activity, and provides worldwide sector Offset leadership to increase sector sales, while reducing Offset related costs and risks. Furthermore, this role has oversight and approval responsibility for all sector Offset and Industrial Cooperation activity.Daily responsibilities to include, but not limited to:• Maintain expertise and contacts worldwide for Offset and IC policies and practices in order to advise business units on when and how Offset and Industrial Cooperation will be required or can be used for competitive advantage.• Play key role in guiding business areas on customer/market/bid strategies and proposals.• Provide assistance and guidance on preparation, review, approval, and execution of Offset and Industrial Cooperation plans, proposals, transactions, and agreements.• Approve all Offset and Industrial Cooperation agreements and applicable Offset terms with ES customers, including contracts where ES is a sub to platform primes. Lead or assist in significant Offset negotiations with customers.• Play key role in setting Offset/Industrial Cooperation budgets and obtaining FMS reimbursements for Offset.• Play a lead role in setting sector strategy on larger opportunities and which involve multiple business units.• Coordinate cooperation across business areas and sectors, with BAE Systems plc, and with third parties to expand scope and variety of Offset projects, particularly for indirect Offset.• Coordinate Offset initiatives, facilitate cross-business approaches, manage, prepare and submit required Offset and Industrial Cooperation reports.• Identify Offset and Industrial Cooperation strategies, conduct development projects for competitive advantage.• Analyze economic outcomes, recommend approaches based on specific country Offset and industrial priorities and Offset regulations.• Maintain memberships and participation in Offset and Industrial Cooperation organizations.• Develop and maintain sector-level Offset and Industrial Cooperation policies and procedures in conjunction with BAE Systems Inc. guidance.• Oversee and advise business area Offset and Industrial Cooperation activities.• Develops and manages appropriate level international relationships.• Supports BAE Systems' export, adviser and Industrial Cooperation/Offset strategies.• Provides intelligence and advice to Businesses on budgets, programs, new opportunities, customer/political thinking and competitor activity throughout the region.• Lead strategic customer relationship management for Offset and Industrial Cooperation activities.• Supports ES Business Areas and Senior Leadership with guidance and input for opportunity-related Offset and Industrial Cooperation issues.• Actively participates with businesses for Industrial Cooperation issues in opportunity identification and development.• Oversees application of relevant business winning processes and leads specific areas of business winning improvement activity.• Supports development and implementation of strategic Industrial Cooperation efforts.