CareerPlanSign in

Key Account Director - Defence

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead strategic sales and treasury solutions for the Defence and Aerospace sectors, focusing on C-suite relationships and complex financial products.

Role type

Senior Key Account Director (Defence)

Builds

Sophisticated treasury, FX hedging, and supplier payment financing solutions for long-cycle defense contracts.

Domain

FinTech / Defence & Aerospace

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Strategic account origination, C-suite negotiation, complex financial product architecture, sector-specific domain knowledge (fixed-price bids, sovereign risk), pipeline management

Preferred skills

Experience in Tier-1 prospect onboarding, mentoring sales teams, product roadmap feedback

Technologies

Salesforce

Responsibilities

Identify and onboard Tier-1 prospects within the Defence and Aerospace sectors; Sell complex FX hedging strategies, cash management, and supplier payment financing solutions; Build and leverage high-level relationships with CFOs, Treasurers, and Finance Directors; Act as the internal "Defence Expert" providing feedback to Product teams; Maintain a rigorous pipeline via Salesforce

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

Sourced via greenhouse · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.