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Amadeus · 1 day ago

VPO - Manager Airlines, Airports and Strategic Programs

Irving, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Amadeus is seeking a Manager for the VP Office focused on Airlines and Airports customer verticals across the Americas region. This role involves collaborating with leaders to provide business consulting and project management support to ensure success in these verticals and manage strategic programs effectively.

Air TransportationHotelInformation TechnologySoftwareTourismTravel

Work & Life Balance

Responsibilities

Provide expert guidance to manage strategic programs for the Americas region; work in collaboration with Strategy, RevOps, Americas leaders and other VPO members to ensure effective management and reporting of strategic programs and initiatives

Have a broad understanding of the business across customer verticals and leverage that knowledge to ensure effective management of strategic programs and to recommend solutions/best practices and otherwise influence the Americas region strategy

Take ownership of specific strategic projects/programs for the Americas region. Translate the strategy of the activity into a concrete action plan, setting and monitoring targets for the team

Work independently, based on management directions. May coordinate functional teams or projects and serves as a best practices/quality resource

Serve as co-program owner with Strategy team for the 5-year Growth Ambition and Strategy for the verticals - including ongoing updates, refinement and scorecard tracking

Business Line Bilaterals and Strategic Portfolio Reviews (SPR) planning (close collaboration with Pre-Sales)

Quarterly Strategic Initiative Review preparation (ensure high quality, objective scorecard evaluation)

Month Performance Review coordination/support (RevOps leads)

Quarterly TU Management meeting material coordination for Airlines and Airports

Deal desk planning for Airlines and Airports

Airports: ensure agenda alignment and high-quality region content for Monthly Commercial Synch with business line leaders

Airlines: ensure agenda alignment and high-quality region content for Monthly Stakeholders Meeting with key Business Line and Tech leadership

Coordinate region participation in annual Relationship survey

Serve as liaison with RevOps for Segmentation exercises

Other ad hoc responsibilities specific to the verticals

Support the success of Airlines and Airports leadership by serving as VPO point for vertical SVPs

Direct report meeting planning and action item management

Planning and executing larger team meetings (including all hands), along with action item management

Preparation of internal communications

Support for strategic customer meetings and events, including leader briefing packs (customer profiles, key issues, hot button items, etc.)

Frequent coordination and alignment meetings with vertical leaders

Other ad hoc support and special projects as required

Qualification

Travel technology knowledgeStrategic program managementProject management experienceMS Office proficiencyCommunication skillsStakeholder managementTeam leadershipPresentation skills

Required

Minimum of 7 years of experience in the travel industry, with strong knowledge of the travel technology sector

Excellent written and verbal communication skills – and skills with presenting complex information to executive audiences

Demonstrated ability to effectively interact with senior management and team leaders across various functions

Proven ability to manage programs and projects across virtual teams – and to drive accountability and results with team members at all levels, including senior team leaders

Significant experience with program scorecards and managing effective project health evaluation and reporting processes

Strong MS Office skills, with demonstrated experience developing well-structured PowerPoint presentations to effectively communicate complex information

Ability to travel 10% of the time

Preferred

Knowledge of the travel technology business model - with specific knowledge of the business model for the Airlines and Airports verticals strongly preferred

Experience managing large, complex projects, with formal project management training/certification a plus

Benefits

A complete rewards offer - Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer, including salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.

A flexible working model - We want our employees to do their best work, wherever and however it works best for them.

Company

Amadeus

Glassdoor4.1

Amadeus is a transaction processor providing transaction processing power and technology solutions for the travel and tourism industry. It is a sub-organization of Amadeus.

Founded in 1987

Madrid, Madrid, ESP

10001+ employees