Senior Manager, Licensing and Divestitures

Honeywell Aerospace•Phoenix, AZ

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Licensing and Divestitures partners with business leaders to realize strategies and generate growth by leveraging intellectual property. Aerospace licensing includes core licensing and strategic lifecycle product licensing (LPL). This role is part of the LPL team based in Phoenix, Arizona, reports to the Vice-President of Aerospace Strategic Licensing, and has a hybrid work arrangement. The position helps identify and secure LPL licensing opportunities aligned with strategic objectives, evaluates potential licensing partnerships with cross-functional teams, negotiates agreements, and assists with administering or amending existing agreements during project de-integration.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in licensing, M&A, legal, Supply Chain, or business transactions.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, accounting, engineering, law, or a related field.
Business acumen and demonstrable financial skills, including the ability to build a discounted cash flow model.
Experience taking transactions from creation to closure in a large, complex corporate environment and interacting with multiple businesses and functions.
Proven project-management experience and a high level of curiosity.
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including executive-level presentation skills.
Self-confidence, a strong sense of urgency, and the ability to overcome obstacles and deliver in a timely manner.
Proven people-leadership skills and ability to work with individuals and teams to solve problems.
Self-starter able to work efficiently and effectively while managing multiple priorities in a high-pressure environment.
Understanding of Honeywell Aerospace operations, CBTs, customers, products, and ISC operations.

Responsibilities

Partner with Strategic Marketing, GBE, Finance, and Engineering to identify legacy, non-core product lines for the LPL pipeline.
Assist Supply Chain and Product teams with post-signing deal execution, including critical transition activities and contractual amendments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to complete sell-side diligence for LPL projects.
Define project scope, including LRU identification and part-list perimeter setting.
Value product lines using NPV, including financial keep-case, revenue, and cost build-up.
Assist with or lead multidisciplinary diligence across supply chain, export, HR, contracts, CBTs, and Sales, including inventory and equipment valuation, site and sourcing diligence, classification verification, people-impact diligence, affected-contract diligence, and assessment of key customer impacts.
Engage current and future licensing partners on business development and deal-transition initiatives.
Drive standard process improvements and develop best-practice methodologies and templates across diligence workstreams.
Meet Strategic Licensing SRO, AOP, and STRAP commitments by directly driving license execution.