Product manager for airline datalink

SITA; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH up to 2 days/week

Up to 30 days vacation per year

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Wellbeing platform & learning programs

Learning opportunities

Job summary

SITA is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the strategy, performance, and evolution of the Aircraft Airline Datalink portfolio. You will lead a team of Product Managers, drive multi-year roadmaps, and ensure revenue growth, service continuity, and regulatory compliance across a global aviation landscape.

You will balance transformation with live service continuity, engage customers, and collaborate with Sales, Commercial and Finance to deliver objectives. Travel internationally approx.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in Product Management in complex B2B or mission-critical services.
• Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, budgets, P&L and business cases.
• Strong aviation industry knowledge or airline technology exposure.
• Excellent English communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Own portfolio performance, P&L, revenue, margins and forecasts.
• Invest where value is highest; manage costs and investments.
• Ensure service continuity and risk management.
• Identify new customer, market and partnership opportunities.
• Drive growth through pricing, cross-sell, upsell and retention.
• Coordinate with Sales, Commercial and Finance to meet objectives.
• Lead strategic suppliers and partners.
• Prioritize the roadmap by customer value and impact.
• Modernise products, platforms, data, tooling and processes.
• Improve customer experience, resilience, and cost-to-serve.
• Develop and coach a team of Product Managers.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmaps

P&L management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Tools

Portfolio management

Job description

Описание:

As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead the strategy, performance, and evolution of SITA for Aircraft Airline Datalink portfolio. This role has end-to-end business accountability for a portfolio of mature, mission-critical aircraft services. The Senior Product Manager will protect and grow the existing business while driving product modernisation and responding to changes in customer needs, technology, regulation and the aviation market. As a People Manager, the role also leads and develops a team of Product Managers, providing clear direction, priorities and accountability.

Задачи:

Define and drive the portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmap. Own portfolio performance and P&L, including revenue, margin, costs, investments and forecasts. Make clear choices on where to invest, grow, maintain, partner, simplify or retire. Ensure customer commitments, service continuity and business risks are effectively managed. Identify and develop new customer, market and partnership opportunities. Drive growth through propositions, pricing, cross-sell, upsell and retention. Work closely with Sales, Commercial and Finance to deliver business objectives. Manage key strategic suppliers and partners. Own and prioritise the portfolio roadmap based on customer value, business impact, strategic priorities, regulatory requirements and delivery capacity. Lead the modernisation of products, platforms, data, tooling and operational processes. Improve customer experience, resilience, scalability, operational efficiency and cost-to-serve. Balance transformation with the continuity requirements of live aviation services. Maintain a strong understanding of airlines, aircraft connectivity and relevant technology and regulatory developments. Engage directly with customers and represent the portfolio in key industry discussions. Translate customer and market needs into clear product priorities and opportunities. Lead and develop a team of Product Managers. Set clear objectives, responsibilities and priorities. Coach the team on strategy, roadmaps, business cases, prioritisation and stakeholder management. Build a strong Product Management culture based on ownership, autonomy and accountability.

Требования:

7+ years experience in Product Management in complex B2B or mission-critical services. Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, budgets, P&L and business cases. Strong aviation industry knowledge, ideally across aircraft services, connectivity, communications, avionics or airline technology. Good understanding of airline operations. Strong commercial judgement and ability to identify growth opportunities. Experience working across technical, operational and commercial teams and managing strategic partners. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in English. Takes ownership and is accountable for results. Combines strategic thinking with strong commercial judgement. Makes clear priorities and trade-offs. Develops people and gives teams autonomy with accountability. Influences effectively across technical, operational, commercial and senior stakeholders. Can move comfortably between strategy and execution Ability to travel internationally, approximately 15%. Comfortable working across regions, time zones and multicultural teams. Будет плюсом: Experience modernising platforms supporting live operational services; Proven experience leading and developing a team Product Managers; Experience working across regions and multicultural teams

Условия:

Our offices are comfortable and fun places to work, and we make sure you get to work from home too. Work from home up to 2 days/week (depending on your team's needs) Make your workday suit your life and plans. Take up to 30 days a year to work from any location in the world. We have got you covered with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), for you and your dependents 24/7, 365 days/year. We also offer Champion Health - a personalized platform that supports a range of wellbeing needs. At SITA, we believe growth fuels innovation. Our learning ecosystem offers access to world-class platforms and programs designed to help you thrive. From LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft's Enterprise Skills Initiative, and Airport Council International -available to all employees-to specialized solutions like Pluralsight for technology upskilling, Harvard Business Publishing for people leadership, Stanford for strategic development and many others, we align learning opportunities with your Development Plan and our business priorities. Your development journey is supported every step of the way. Competitive benefits that make sense with both your local market and employment status.