Project and Execution Solution Lead - FFLIT

About This Role

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Our team is at the forefront of CAE’s commitment to excellence, consistently striving to delight our customers. Here, you’ll manage key relationships, lead proactive solutions, and elevate our client experience. Working alongside a dynamic team with a shared purpose, you’ll make a tangible difference in every interaction. By joining us, you will not only advance your career but also play a crucial role in CAE’s mission to enhance safety and readiness on a global scale. Together, we can achieve remarkable outcomes and set new standards in customer service and client satisfaction.

Position Overview

The Project and Execution Solution Lead - Future Fighter Lead-in Training (FFLIT)  is part of the FFLIT and Acquisition Programs team, D&S Canada and working in close collaboration with 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 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 senior 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

• Responsible for the FFLIT Strategic Partnership project with the Government of Canada including:

  • Monitor and control all aspects of the project to ensure compliance with technical requirements

  • Take charge of all aspects of the entrusted project: schedule, costs, income, risk, scope, customer relations, contract

  • Report regularly to internal management on progress, issues and workarounds and to the customer

• 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

• 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 to the Senior Leadership

  • Interface with customers and end-users to present solutions and negotiate scope and terms

Required Experience & Qualifications

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

• Master’s in business administration considered an asset

• PMP certification or equivalent

• Minimum of 10-15 years of related program management leadership experience in industry and/or military service, with 5-10 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 large development, training integration or engineering projects with high levels of risk/uncertainty

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

• 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

• Relevant training/mentoring experience and skills

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

• Good people skills and problem-solving mind set

• Good business acumen and political savvy

• Bilingualism (English and French) is preferred

• Be able to hold a NATO SECRET security clearance

CAE offers: 

• An environment where your initiatives will be recognized and valued  

• The opportunity to work on a variety of projects on a multidisciplinary team  

• The possibility to work from home occasionally  

• Flexible schedules  

• Attractive employee benefits 

About CAE

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 software-based simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, cabin crew, airlines, and defence and security forces 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 approximately 250 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents more than 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators as well as training programs powered by digital technologies. We embed sustainability in everything we do. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.

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

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender indentity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, age, or other characteristics protected by local laws.

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