Transformation Manager

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Transformation Manager

Looking for a challenge in one of the world's largest airfreight logistics organisations?

At IAG Cargo, we're in the business of moving things. From antibiotics and rhinoceroses to gold bullion, avocados, and everything in between, whatever people need, wherever they are, IAG Cargo is there to bring them the necessary and niche.

As the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group, you'll work across the globally recognised brands of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling.

As well as helping to keep the world's economies turning, we believe in building a great place for our colleagues to work. Our people are determined, curious, collaborative and take huge pride in everything they do.

The role:

Transformation Manager

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.

What you'll do:

• 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.

KEY STAKEHOLDERSInternal
• IAG Cargo CET and their respective leadership teams across the business
• Fellow IAG operating companies
External
• External suppliers and customers

What you'll bring to IAG Cargo:

• 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

Your experience:

Qualifications
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.

What we offer:

Wherever you work within IAG Cargo, you'll play a part in connecting people and countries and join a diverse and inclusive business that's making a difference to the future of aviation.

Colleagues working for IAG Cargo:

• Benefit from attractive and competitive rewards aligned to the local market and role.
• From the day you join us, you'll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines. You'll also receive up to 30 discounted 'Hotline' airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
• Work with diverse colleagues in a business that truly values inclusion and diversity.
• Are valued for their ideas and opinions.
• Benefit from opportunities for development and progression.
• Are able to support communities across the world, and close to home.
• Work in an environment in which safety and wellbeing are paramount.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Our recruitment procedures positively support our equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda.

All candidates are considered strictly on their merits in relation to the criteria for the role, treated fairly and consistently and have their individual needs responded to throughout the process.

Please advise us if you require any reasonable adjustments to take part in the recruitment process so we're able to remove any barriers that may present themselves.

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