Salary: Competitive per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid - VHQ, Crawley
Contract: 7 month fixed term contract
Closing Date: 30th March 2025
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it’s our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens. We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks. If you’re ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.
This role is accountable for delivering first class Flying Club reporting and commentary across multiple domains including P&L, acquisition/engagement, joint ventures and partnerships and Flying Club experience, supporting the Head of Flying Club in ensuring Flying Club is fulfilling its role as an engine for satisfaction, engagement, and revenue for Virgin Atlantic.
The Manager Flying Club Performance will own and deliver monthly reporting requirements at all levels from intra-team to board papers, closely liaising with Finance and the Business Intelligence and Analytics team. You’ll be responsible for anticipating the needs of our highest value guests and modelling new loyalty products and propositions, ensuring we always make the right call for our members.
Leading a small high performing team this role will maintain and improve processes, reporting, targets, and clear accountabilities to safeguard performance. Building trusted, senior relationships with Commercial and Virgin Red to effectively trade Flying Club and drive redemption revenue, whilst collaborating with CRM and touchpoint owners across the end-to-end journey.
Work with SM Loyalty Product and HO Loyalty to lead the planning process for delivering multi-year targets ensuring that roadmaps and forecasting are anticipating future requirements for Flying Club success.
- Deliver performance across Flying Club P&L, customer acquisition/engagement, and satisfaction in line with Flying Club and CRM team targets, ultimately fulfilling our goals and strategy. Work with rest of Flying Club and CRM team and whole range of stakeholders to ensure short/medium/long term actions in progress to meet and exceed targets.
- Build the machine required to drive performance, leading the team by developing and empowering direct reports, defining and shaping reporting and performance drumbeat.
- Single point of accountability for reporting, commentary, and P&L at all levels up to and including board papers – across revenue and cost lines, but also customer acquisition and engagement.
- Drive multi-year performance strategy and planning including forecasting, target setting, and roadmaps for initiatives, flagging gaps and opportunities.
- Lead, develop and motivate the team in line with One Company Mindset to demonstrate expected competencies and behaviours, with clear and meaningful objectives and measurable performance targets
- Commit to personal development and provide coaching and support to team members as required
- Degree-level qualification in an analytical or technical discipline coupled with demonstrable experience working as part of an insights delivery team
- Working knowledge of SQL to build datasets for insights and use of visualisation tool(s) for automated reporting are essential, Power BI and Databricks SQL knowledge would be highly desired
- Experience producing C suite presentations
- Loyalty / FFP experience
- Experience managing a team, overseeing multiple workstreams, timelines and stakeholder expectations
- Agility to react to business challenges and the simple fact that things change all the time
- Ability to communicate complex results and analysis in a way that is east for a variety of stakeholders to understand
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Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
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