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Job Description
Job Summary:
Lead a team of experts in crafting asset investment and disposal strategies to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns throughout the business cycle, leveraging deep airframe and engine product knowledge, market analysis, and commercial opportunity assessment.Key Responsibilities:
- Develop frameworks for risk-based capital allocation targets for different aircraft types, counterparty types, and jurisdictions to assist management decision making on portfolio strategy.
- Maintain an effective framework to discuss asset risks and industry outlook with relevant decision makers and the Risk Management Committee.
- Contribute to the development of investment cases and risk factors for aircraft types, in collaboration with the OEM and Powerplant teams.
- Proactively identify and communicate market trends, macro developments, industry threats, and opportunities as well as product and market intelligence to deal teams, senior leadership.
- Build and maintain relationships with product marketing, strategy, and forecasting teams at OEMs, extracting impactful product and market intelligence in partnership with the Commercial Insights team.
- Negotiate and manage subscriptions with data providers for fleets, values, and other datasets, optimizing or expanding partnerships to match requirements from internal user groups.
- Travel to OEMs, appraisers, and conferences to represent Avolon, build an effective network, and keep abreast of key industry trends.
About Avolon:
Avolon is a leading global aircraft leasing firm providing lease and lease management services to airlines and aircraft investors worldwide.
Requirements:
- Five or more years of professional experience with two or more years in a directly related role.
- Passionate about aircraft and engine products, with demonstrated experience in product marketing or aircraft evaluation considered an asset.
- Display a strategic mindset to complex issues with competitive dynamics involving airlines, OEMs, lessors, and lenders in the context of current events, long-term trends, and policy.
- Awareness of the investment characteristics of aircraft, with experience in aircraft appraising considered an asset.
- Demonstrated spreadsheet skills.
- Ability to evaluate investment cases and contribute to building business cases, including financial and risk analysis.
- Highly organised project manager.
- Able to parse complex projects into workstreams, delegate, and direct others to achieve high-quality results.
- Highly motivated self-starter who can take projects from inception to completion and work under own initiative.
- Communicates with clarity, able to distil complex information into impactful implications for Avolon, often via PowerPoint, to enable decision-making.
- Able to engender trust amongst stakeholders by collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in Avolon.
- Ability to instil energy, drive, and pride in self and others.
- Excited about international travel.