Transformation Manager Heathrow, England
Job description
Looking for a challenge in one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisation and a FTSE 100 company?
At IAG Cargo we are in the business of moving things. From antibiotics to rhinoceros, gold bullion to avocados and everything in between. Whatever people need, wherever they are. In an era of digital screens and closed borders, we open the skies and fly the world to bring people the things they really need. As the logistics and cargo brand of the International Airlines Group, you will work across the globally recognised brands of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling as we build and shape a new logistics company. We believe in a world that is always moving, with values that underpin our business. By always delivering, always improving, always working as one team and always with integrity, we are creating an inclusive business that works for its customers and its colleagues around the globe.
THE ROLE
As an integral member of the IAG Cargo Transformation Office this role will be responsible for partnering with key business areas to accelerate key transformational change programmes. You will embed yourself within the IAG Cargo leadership teams to support the wider transformation plan, provide external perspective/challenge, and increase the bandwidth of the senior leaders you support by using data to drive insightful and innovate decision making.
DUTIES
- Ensure all programmes meet the agreed transformation agenda and drive execution, applying best practice across different streams where appropriate.
- Agile deployment into tactical programmes to ensure transformation delivery on time and within budget, ensuring all risks mitigations are put in place.
- Supporting business areas with external perspective and insightful, thorough analysis to recommend areas for improvement.
- Responsible for continuous review of the portfolio of work across workstreams to help teams to identify dependencies, cross departmental issues and gaps to enable proactive issue resolution.
- Analysing robust data sets and running bottom-up diagnostics on departments to highlight underlying opportunities to develop quality transformational plans, not just incremental delivery.
- Challenge teams and processes to ensure targets are being met using an agile mindset.
- Pro-actively manage the agendas and commissioning papers for key internal and external meetings, and in some cases chairing meetings or leading working groups or committees.
- Continuously communicating the vision, objectives and milestones throughout the organisation and with wider partners and stakeholders.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Able to balance strategic thinking, creativity, planning, project and process management, operations and administrative execution with exceptional communications capabilities and judgment
- Strong analytical skills with an ability to interpret large data sets and use the output to recommend, and crucially achieve buy in for, necessary improvements
Strong programme management experience across large, complex programmes.
Bring structure, visibility, rigour and professionalism to transformation and performance in an open, collaborative culture - Ability to work at pace in an ambiguous environment, good with process, with a bias
towards execution
As well as a competitive salary, bonus, 26 days holiday, ability to opt-in to a generous pension and, life assurance and healthcare scheme, we also offer:
- For the budding traveller we offer incredible staff discounts at hotels, car hire and our staff travel flights are legendary
- Free fruit and an on-site café
- Onsite staff parking, electric charging points and free airport parking when you are off globe-trotting
- Up to 75% discount on the Heathrow Express with your staff pass
- All our colleagues get access to LinkedIn learning and Rosetta Stone Language courses
- For health and wellbeing we offer a free onsite gym facility as well as access to the UNMIND app and a community of Mental Health First Aiders
- Access to discounts on Apple, Cinema tickets and loads of other goodies through Perks at work
We are one of the world's largest cargo carriers, come and be part of it
