VP Air Operations

VP Air Operations - Southampton or London

At Cirium we are proud of our heritage, since 1909, the very early days of flight where we were the first to bring forward aviation insights on this fledgling industry. We have transformed significantly over the years and we are proud of the future business we are building together. Our people are at the centre of who we are. Whatever your background you are welcome. We are looking for talented and dynamic team players who focus on delivering successful outcomes.

We are a business where three out of our seven leaders are women, over 20 languages are spoken, where some leaders have grey hair and some have purple. Where our sales teams take time out to support local schools and our product teams champion local women back into the workplace.

Some things you might not know about Cirium:

• Cirium provides data and analytics to leading aviation and air travel companies - our clients come from many market sectors globally including airlines, airports, travel companies, aircraft manufacturers, governments, and financial institutions.
• Our data is used by over 95% of the top 50 airline groups globally, which represents circa 80% of the world’s airlines passenger traffic; four out of five of the world’s top five major search engines, and was supplied to NATS (National Air Traffic Services) streamlined London Heathrow traffic management system (XMAN) which delivers 15,000 tonnes of CO2 savings per year.
• Cirium tracks 98% of flights globally in real-time, and has the largest certified aircraft appraiser team in the world.
• Cirium has 14 offices worldwide across the UK, Americas, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific and with a strong remote-worker community.
• One of our offices is alongside a runway and another has its own pub, The Goose.
• We celebrate our global diversity through events and networks throughout the year.
• Cirium is part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, which is part of RELX, a FTSE 100 traded company.
• Our benefits stand out – they even include two days a year for you to dedicate to the charitable activity of your choice.
• Cirium and LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group are founding members of the Tech Talent Charter, committed to increasing the ratio of women and under-represented groups working in technology.

About the role

As a leader within the Product Management function, you are responsible to drive the success of the Air Operations sector whilst also collaborating with the global sales team and peers in other sectors to ensure Cirium’s overall commercial success. Specifically,

Develop and maintain a sector strategy and associated product roadmap which achieves the long-term vision for the sector, drawing on core data and technology assets of Cirium Model excellence in the Product Management discipline, leading your team and those drawn from other functions to achieve collective goals and deliver world leading product to market Understand the value of our products and be able to articulate to key decision makers how they relate and solve detailed customer business problems Represent Cirium externally, and be able to talk authoritatively about the domain to operational experts whilst also developing expertise in the market enabling you to spot trends and inform future priorities Adopt a long-term view, inform the priorities of your stakeholders across the business, ensuring Cirium remains ready to meet future needs of the industry

Our industry is going through transformation, and Cirium along with it. As such this is accurately described as a transformation role, and the successful applicant will be a visionary and strong communicator, who communicates from a position of deep knowledge. We expect they will have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the Aviation domain ideally in a Product Management role, working with technology-enabled products.

Specific Accountabilities

• Design and implement long-term product roadmaps for those Cirium products servicing the needs of the Air Operation sector
• Cultivate new product ideas and product improvements and evaluate their potential.
• Work closely with the global sales team to drive commercial success of Cirium within the Air Ops sector, including adoption of products and data not specifically targeted at this sector
• Model excellence within Product Management, ensuring a world class approach to discovery and delivery
• Collaborate with leaders in Sales, UX, Engineering, Strategy and Data to ensure that Product Management functions in full alignment with the rest of the organisation
• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of products and technologies for your sector
• Manage product profitability throughout the lifecycle
• Focus on use of analytics, to ensure a data-driven approach to the creation of customer value, new product development and sunsetting
• Create and implement product vision, direction, and business plans, including product plans, product migration and evolution, and product life cycle and retirement
  

Key attributes of the successful candidate

• Collaborative by nature. You need to innately understand the value of collaboration to achieving great things at an enterprise level.
• Deep understanding of the Air Operations sector, and the ability to articulate this and use it to inform product prioritisation efforts
• Excellent communicator in all mediums. Ability to inspire and represent Cirium externally, as well as representing the customer internally within Cirium
• Attention to detail, follow-up, project management skills are assumed, along with the ability to move effortlessly from the big picture to detail
• Key experiences:
  • Active experience successfully launching technology-enabled products to market
  • Working with various discovery techniques and forms of Agile delivery
  • Familiarity with Project Management techniques
  • Proven ability to attract and retain world class teams
  • A broad understanding of the Aviation industry and a detailed operational understanding of at least one of the following: Airlines, Airports, ANSP or UTM

At Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 35 diversity employee networks globally and prioritise ensuring inclusive leadership is part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

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