Senior Manager Ancillaries

Salary: Competitive

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday

Location: Hybrid remote working, with up to 3 days working at our VHQ, Crawley, West Sussex

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 23rd July 2021

Many of our staff at Virgin work flexibly and in many different ways, including different core hours or remote working. Please talk to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we are happy to explore what's possible for the role.

In a nutshell

As Senior Manager - Ancillaries you'll support and deliver Ancillary revenue strategies, covering the Airline and Virgin Atlantic Holidays (VAH). Driving revenue growth by offering compelling ancillary products, effectively distributed and optimally positioned. You'll analytically evaluate performance, adjusting application of strategy and driving change to strategic direction where appropriate.

Leading the team, you'll create an environment of high performance and high engagement, ensuring processes are efficient and effective.

Day to day

- Implementation of ancillary strategy

- Improve working practices across the team, generating efficiency, accuracy and productivity

- Drive Airline & VAH ancillary strategy

- Build trading actions to maximise revenue

- Leading and developing team

About you

Do you have proven ability leading and developing a high performing team with a hands on approach? Do you have commercial acumen with excellent problem solving skills? Then this could be the role for you.

Alongside the above we're looking for the following:

- Intellectually curious with the ability to identify emerging industry trends in revenue generation, both strategic and trading.
- Experience implementing change, and ensure benefit delivery.
- Influencing and communication skills to commercial leadership on trading actions that support the strategic direction.

Does the above sound like you? Do you have the ability to drive & deliver an Ancillary strategy? Then we'd love to hear from you!
 

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Virgin Atlantic are committed equal opportunities employers and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible applicants regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy and maternity. Diversity brings strength which is why we strive to provide an inclusive environment where individuality is celebrated, and we can ignite the potential of our forward-thinking mix of people.

Please be aware as part of our recruitment process we may look to use a variety of resourcing tools to help us understand your skills and experience in relation to the role you have applied for. These may include application questions, video interviews or online testing. Please feel free to contact us at recruitment@fly.virgin.com if there are any reasonable adjustments to our process that you would like us to consider, for example use of hearing loops, sign language interpreter etc. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if there are any issues preventing you from being at your best during your application or assessment process. Any issues raised after your assessment is completed or once a decision has been made will be too late for us to consider within our process.

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