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Wizz Air is a leading European low-cost airline. 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 8,000 employees from more than 100 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 experience, 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 Finance Transformation 

Based in Budapest 

Purpose of the position:

As the Digital Product Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams creating the future of the back-office processes, data, systems and ways of working.   Using digital solutions, Wizz Air will transform the core processes to become touchless, repeatable, and reliable. This will also enable workforce to focus on value add activities and create more generate new data insights for improved decision making.  This self-reinforcing flywheel of digital solutions, data, measurability, and insights is what we call Scale Without Boundaries.

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. 

What we offer:

• Base salary and employee bonus scheme
• Unlimited number of significantly discounted and confirmed seating tickets, giving access to a continuously growing network of destinations.
• Relocation package (if applicable) – expense budget, Temporary accommodation, Administration support
• Life insurance
• Instant impact, from any level of the organization, exposure to C-suite management
• Fast career progression, internal mobility and talent management supported by training opportunities (Wizz Academy and bespoke trainings)
• True international and multi-cultural work environment, passionate, driven, and diverse teams
• All-you-can-move pass

Responsibilities:

• Lead several teams to evaluate (internal) 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;

Requirements:

• You have a proven track record as Product and/or Program Manager, where you have delivered major corporate system transformation
• Experience in leading complex projects to measurable value delivery
• Experience in lean, business process mapping, and Agile development practices 
• A deep understanding of Finance and Accounting processes, and strong analytical skills
• 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
• You are cross-functional collaborator, and are comfortable presenting in front of Executives
• 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

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.