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Role Overview
Head of Commercial Programs at Destinus. Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer, this role combines chief of staff responsibilities with commercial programme management, serving as the operational backbone connecting strategy to execution across the commercial organisation.
Company Overview
Destinus is revolutionizing the defense industry with cutting-edge Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The company partners with government agencies and defense organisations worldwide to provide advanced solutions for mission-critical operations, delivering unparalleled speed, precision, and cost effectiveness.
Role Purpose
To act as a senior chief of staff to Commercial leadership, orchestrating the cadence, governance, and cross-functional coordination that keep major pursuits, partnerships, and commercial initiatives on track. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role that translates leadership priorities into disciplined programme plans, holds workstreams accountable to milestones, and brings order and momentum to a fast-moving, high-stakes commercial environment.
Key Responsibilities
Chief of Staff to Commercial Leadership
- Act as a trusted right hand to the CCO, managing priorities, follow-through, and decision tracking across the commercial leadership agenda.
- Own the leadership rhythm: prepare board and executive materials, run leadership reviews, and ensure decisions are documented, assigned, and closed out.
- Filter signal from noise across the commercial organisation, surfacing issues that need leadership attention before they become critical and push correct prioritisation.
Commercial Programme Management
- Own the end-to-end programme management of major commercial pursuits and cross-functional initiatives, from kickoff through milestone tracking to closeout.
Governance & Process
- Establish and maintain the governance framework that connects commercial programmes to corporate reporting, budget cycles, and defense-sector compliance requirements.
- Design and enforce escalation paths so risks and blockers reach the right decision-maker at the right time.
- Partner with Commercial Strategy on process design and continuous improvement, ensuring programme management practices scale with the business.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Serve as the central coordination point across Business Development, Programme Management, Legal, Finance, and Manufacturing, aligning timelines and dependencies for major pursuits and strategic partnerships.
- Represent Commercial in cross-functional steering committees, ensuring commercial priorities and constraints are properly reflected in wider programme decisions.
Reporting & Communication
- Produce concise, decision-ready reporting for executive and board audiences, translating programme detail into clear strategic narrative.
Qualifications & Experience
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Programme/Project Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 8–12 years of professional experience spanning programme management, chief-of-staff or business-management roles, and commercial or business development functions.
- Experience in the defense or aerospace industry is an advantage.
- Proven track record running complex, multi-stakeholder programmes end to end.
- Demonstrated experience operating as a chief of staff or senior business-management partner to executive leadership.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong command of programme management tools and methods (RAID logs, stage-gate governance, KPI/dashboard reporting).
- Excellent judgement and discretion in handling sensitive, leadership-level information.
- Fluent in English.
- Diplomatic approach to aligning senior stakeholders across functions, with direct accountability to commitments.
- Ability to bring calm, rigorous execution to ambiguous, fast-moving situations.
- Capacity to turn strategic intent into disciplined plan with clear owners and dates.
Additional Information
- Eligibility to obtain or hold a security clearance in an EU member state is required.