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Wizz Air is a leading European low-cost airline with a fleet of modern and fuel-efficient aircraft. Our mission is to provide affordable and reliable air travel to everyone, everywhere, while minimizing our environmental impact. We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive team of over 7,000 employees from more than 60 nationalities, who share our values of inclusivity, positivity, dedication, integrity, and sustainability.

As a rapidly expanding airline, we offer exciting career opportunities across a range of functions, from flight operations to engineering, customer service, finance, and more. We provide extensive training and development opportunities to help our employees grow and succeed in their roles. Joining Wizz Air means joining a team that is passionate about aviation, dedicated to excellence, and committed to making air travel accessible and sustainable for all. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in the aviation industry, we welcome you to explore our job opportunities and become a part of our success story.

Product Manager Digital Powered Operations 

Based in BUD - Office 

Purpose of the position:

WizzAir is looking for a talented Product Manager to join our Digital Transformation & Innovation team, with focus on Digital Powered Operations.  

Do you like taking a company to a new direction? Do you have what it takes to lead transformation to redefine the way we operate with use of digital solutions and intelligent algorithms? If so, read on.  

As the Digital Product Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams creating the future of operations processes, data, systems and ways of working.  Using digital solutions and leveraging advanced analytics, Wizz Air will make a step change in our operational efficiency and performance, and you will be in the lead of that.  

You will be a go to partner for selected business functions (including C-suite leaders), a bridge between Business and Digital.  You will align your stakeholders around the product vision, define the goals, roadmap and relentlessly measure outcomes. You have a strong bias for lean, optimization and automation. You will partner closely with your fellow Product Managers to ensure intakes are being assessed, dependencies and synergies mapped.  

In this role, you will be required to master both Product as well as (agile) Program Management, and tailor the approaches to deliver more value faster. You will apply people change management to ensure adoption of the new processes and technologies.    

Join us to become part of Digital Transformation of the fastest growing airline in Europe!   We are an international, diverse and collaborative team who is on a mission to reimagine how Wizz operates and serves customers

 What we offer:

• Instant impact, from any level of the organisation
• Real international experience
• Comprehensive, end-to-end processes oversight
• Exposure to C-suite management
• Career advancement, internal talent management and development program opportunity (WIZZ Academy)
• Passionate, driven and diverse team
• Growing network across Europe, the UK and the Middle East
• Life insurance
• Participation in the employee bonus scheme – according to the company policy
• Unlimited number of discounted tickets on Wizz Air flights – according to the company policy
• Observation flight and airport visits 

Relocation package (if applicable)

• Expense budget will be available 
• Temporary accommodation will be provided for a definite time period
• Administration support

Responsibilities:

• Lead several teams to evaluate customer needs, existing processes and solutions, identify improvement and value creation areas  
• Develop product vision, strategy, business case, and prioritize efforts to create maximum value   
• Responsible for product value delivery, and measuring outcomes through Metrics/ KPIs, and business case realization  
• Lead several projects running in parallel, and pro-actively communicate on all aspects of delivery   
• Provide information for management by preparing short/ long-term forecasts and special reports and analyses  
• Control all cost associated with activities incl. 3rd party vendors   
• Coach team on product and agile program management techniques and methods  
• Challenge status quo, and pro-actively lead improvements in ways of working  
• Stay at the forefront of digital technologies, trends and find opportunities for innovation and hypotheses on how to drive towards specific business goals through our customer experience;   

About you:

• You have a proven track record as lead Product Manager, and have taken commercial SaaS products to market   
• Experience in leading complex projects to measurable value delivery   
• Experience in lean, business process mapping, and Agile development practices    
• A strategic thinker able to identify opportunities for growth and value creation  
• Ability to work well under pressure ensuring tasks are prioritized and goals met  
• Strong analytical skills, and ability to define value driven metrics and are familiar with data visualization techniques   
• You are cross-functional collaborator, and are comfortable presenting in front of Executives  
• Ability to apply product management best practices and frameworks   
• You have curiosity to continuously improve, and a desire to coach team members   
• You are pro-active team player, and motivate through leading as example  
• Completed university, or college degree  

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When applying, please only provide valid information regarding your educational background and certificates, as the original documents will be requested during the hiring process.

We look forward to meeting you and learning more about your skills and experience. Join the Wizz Air team and discover the world of opportunities.