Aircraft Transitions Lead: Global Fleet Projects

TUI Cruises GmbH; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1,073,000 - 1,694,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel benefits

Health & well-being support

Discretionary bonus schemes

Learning & development access

Job summary

Senior Project Manager - Aircraft Transitions at TUI Cruises GmbH will lead end-to-end lease return and induction projects, ensuring compliance with technical standards and regulatory requirements while minimizing financial exposure.

You will coordinate across multiple TUI airlines and external partners, driving complex fleet transition programs with a focus on risk mitigation, stakeholder alignment, and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a Part-CAMO technical role or aircraft fleet management environment.
• Proven experience managing complex, high-value aviation projects with multiple stakeholders, including aircraft lessors, OEMs or MRO providers.
• Broad technical knowledge of aircraft maintenance, airworthiness regulations and lease agreement structures, and knowledge of IATA best practices and aviation industry standards.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work across different business cultures with multiple customers and stakeholders across a range of source markets.
• Strong commercial awareness and financial acumen, with an understanding of business risk implications in decision-making.
• Must maintain a full clean driving licence and qualify for and maintain Airport Security Clearance(s).
• Project Management qualifications, a degree in engineering (or equivalent) or a Part 66 Licence would be an advantage.
• Tenacious attention to detail combined with strategic thinking capability.
• Familiarity with TUI aircraft types and fleet composition, and with AMOS, Flydocs and MyBoeingFleet, would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete end-of-lease redelivery strategy and process, ensuring compliance with lease return conditions while minimising financial exposure through negotiation of technical exceptions and commercial settlements with lessors.
• Contribute to aircraft induction projects for new or used aircraft, ensuring they meet TUI's technical standards, regulatory requirements and operational readiness timelines through coordination of pre-delivery inspections, acceptance processes and integration activities.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with aircraft lessors, lenders, OEMs and MRO providers, representing TUI Group's technical and commercial interests in negotiations whilst ensuring TUI is viewed as a professional, reliable partner.
• Coordinate complex, cross-functional fleet programmes across multiple TUI airlines, markets and support functions, influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders without direct line authority to deliver transition objectives on time and within budget.
• Contribute to strategic fleet planning across TUI Group, developing comprehensive project plans and risk mitigation strategies that anticipate technical, commercial and operational challenges months in advance.
• Manage transition project budgets, track costs against forecasts, and develop business cases for commercial decisions such as condition buy-outs or technical exceptions, providing financial analysis and recommendations to senior management.
• Drive best practices and continuous improvement. maintaining comprehensive transition documentation and airworthiness continuity throughout the transition process.
• Proactively identify strategic opportunities that can be implemented to smooth the asset transition process.

Skills

Part-CAMO experience

Aircraft fleet management

Communication & negotiation

Stakeholder management

Project Management

Cross-cultural collaboration

Financial acumen

Education

Engineering degree

Part 66 Licence

Tools

AMOS

Flydocs

MyBoeingFleet

Job description

Senior Project Manager - Aircraft Transitions at TUI Cruises GmbH will lead end-to-end lease return and induction projects, ensuring compliance with technical standards and regulatory requirements while minimizing financial exposure.

You will coordinate across multiple TUI airlines and external partners, driving complex fleet transition programs with a focus on risk mitigation, stakeholder alignment, and timely delivery.