Description
An exciting opportunity now exists to join the Commercial Team as Vice President - Market Planning and Analysis – Europe, based in our London office.
In this leadership role, you will lead the Regional and Head Office collaboration to develop and implement strategies and initiatives that maximize revenue and achieve other commercial KPIs across Europe.
Reporting to the Senior Vice President – Europe, you will lead and manage a team to provide consistent data intelligence, analysis and actionable insight to key stake holders and drive a culture of data led decision making for all commercial functions across the European region.
Key Accountabilities:
Translate the global commercial strategy into a regional vision and strategic directives to be implemented by regional sales teams, distribution channel owners and marketing stakeholders.
Collaborate with Senior Vice President Europe and relevant Head Office leadership to leverage data-led input to shape European commercial strategy.
Leverage analytics to gain a deep understanding of the region, country, distribution channel, route and flight revenue, generating gaps and opportunities. Adopt, share and keep ahead of industry and regional best practices and development.
Drive strategic innovation including new commercial products and analytics with the purpose of increasing existing customer segments penetration and developing new ones.
Define long term commercial business objectives and KPIs and validate these with department heads and executives. Ensure development and implementation of local pricing strategies in conjunction with Head Office Commercial Teams.
Provide holistic view and insight of local markets across the region including competitive landscape and comprehensive analysis to build on business opportunities. Lead initiatives to identify and provide detailed analysis of new business venture opportunities with the region.
Be the advocate for the region and engage with the Head Office on its behalf to ensure streamlined communication of all relevant commercial units.
Lead a team focus to identify revenue leakage and develop and implement solutions to eliminate them. Train, develop and coach team to ensure a consistent high quality approach to opportunity analysis.
Lead budgeting process to support establishment of appropriate regional commercial targets. Support achievement of best return on investment when allocating cost of sale across channels.
About You:
The ideal candidate will have a passion for delivery of results and meet the following requirements:
Minimum of 10 years of relevant job experience.
Previous experience in a commercial management role within the airline industry and in managing multiple countries.
A minimum of a Bachelor\'s Degree ideally in Aviation Management, Travel & Tourism, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance or any other relevant field with substantial quantitative exposure.
Strong presentation skills and the ability to present complicated financial concepts to a wide range of stakeholders.
Exceptional leadership skills, ability to delegate work, set clear direction and manage workflow.