Airport Development Manager

The Role

The Airport Development Team manage a significant proportion of the total easyJet external spend (circ £1billion per annum), covering all elements of airport charges and spend.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will manage a portfolio of airports and be responsible for the management of the cost base, negotiating contracts, supplier relationships and driving cost saving programmes across your portfolio of airports.

Develop and implement clear strategies and develop innovative initiatives to drive value on the airport spend.

Build relationships at board level and Influence a range of key internal stakeholders to leverage and gain buy in.

Support the business with negotiating airport charges, securing low cost deals and unlocking capacity at constrained airports and monitoring financial performance.

You will also maximise support available from airports, tourism boards, development agencies and business development groups for new route development, leverage short term capacity changes and new routes to cost advantage.

Ensure appropriate contracts are in place for all airports within the portfolio assigned, including diversion contracts.

Manage cross functionally a group among our top 30 airports to drive incremental value in cost and infrastructure.

How You Will Do It

This role requires a commercially astute individual who is meticulous to detail and has a track record of negotiation on complex, high-value contracts and commercial agreements

You will be a strategic thinker with an out of the box approach to the business and be willing to push boundaries

With excellent communications skills you will have a natural ability to develop and manage internal and external relationships effectively at a variety of levels (up to CEO)

The role requires substantial travel across out network (up to 40%) and with that a 2nd language French, Spanish, Italian or German is desirable.

What You’ll Get In Return

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with opportunity to buy 5 additional days leave after 12 months in role
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Assurance (x4)
• Discounted staff travel scheme with access for friends and family
• Annual credit for discount on easyJet holidays
• ‘Work Away’ scheme, allowing you to work abroad for 30 days a year
• Electric vehicle lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Access to online learning tools and development programmes
  
  
  

Location & Hours of Work

We support hybrid working and we spend 3 days per week in the office at our Luton HQ

About EasyJet

At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

Apply

Complete your application on our careers site.

We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.

Business Area

Commercial

Primary Location

United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport

Organisation

Commercial

Schedule

Full-time

Unposting Date

29/04/2024, 11:59:00 PM