Transaction Manager

Job Description

Transaction Manager

London, UK or Derby, UK

Derby/London/Hybrid – minimum 3 days on site per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Transaction Manager to join the Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance (RRPF) team in London. RRPF is the world’s largest jet engine lessor of Rolls-Royce jet engines, and has a large portfolio of jet engines manufactured by other leading engine manufactures. Our vision is to be the best partner to our customers growth journey.

We provide medium and long term spare engine leasing and bespoke financial solutions to airlines, aircraft lessors and OEMs and support over 75 customers worldwide with a portfolio of over 900 jet engines. This role sits within the Sales and Marketing team; a fast-paced team responsible for spare jet engine leasing, sale and lease backs and sales revenue.

To be successful in this role you will need to have commercial acumen in the aviation aviation industry, an eye for detail, be capable of working with a global and diverse mix of external customers and internal partners and proven programme management experience.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

What you will be doing:

Transaction Management

• Customer relationship and account management is in our DNA, you will work with the sales team supporting customers worldwide with day to day account management.
• Responsible and accountable for ensuring engines are delivered to customers on time and without issues. You will work with legal, technical, sales and other functions to deliver this.
• Support the marketing team to ensure engines are ready for sale/lease by having an in depth understanding of timelines and priorities and coordinating with technical and logistics team.
• Provide management and marketing team with data to assist commercial decisions regarding the future course of life for the asset.
• Ensure new additions and redelivery of engines into the engine portfolio are correctly brought into the fleet in line with process and procedures.
• Capture shipping/export paperwork/customs invoices/inco terms with assistance from logistics.
• Provide Legal and senior management team with sign off and assurance from a delivery perspective.
• Redefining and managing engines through the lease-end process in a timely manner, coordinating with all teams to solve any issues that may arise (missing parts or records, billing, logistics etc), ensuring all re-delivery costs are captured and recharged where applicable.
• Managing and resolving any disputes that may arise regarding suppliers, delivery, storage, damage, or customers.
• Responsible for addressing inaccuracies and failings by the business in respect of delivery and redelivery process and implementing process improvements to prevent a re-occurrence.

Who we’re looking for

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. For this role you will need to demonstrate understanding of the appliable health and safety standards and we are looking for someone who is/has:

• Relevant working experience in aviation logistics and with strong commercial acumen.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating technical provisions of engine lease or purchase agreements.
• Experience with engine technical records.
• Fluent in written and spoken English, additional language skills are a plus.
• Eloquent communication skills, diplomatic skills when dealing with customers.
• Affinity with process development and standardisation.
• Strong relationships with OEMs, MROs and Airlines.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce