STRATEGY MANAGER
Job description
About the Position
STRATEGY MANAGER
At Vueling, we connect people, places, and opportunities ✈️
As part of the IAG Group, we are one of Europe’s leading airlines, serving around 250 routes across 30 countries and welcoming millions of customers every year. With more than 5,000 employees, Vueling is the only European airline recognized as a Top Employer for three consecutive years. Driven by innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability, we are shaping the future of aviation while creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute, and make an impact.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and periodic review of Vueling’s corporate strategy, translating the company’s ambition into strategic priorities, choices, and an actionable roadmap.
- Coordinate the preparation and delivery of the annual and multi-year Business Plan, coordinating cross-functional inputs and ensuring consistency between strategic, commercial, operational, and financial assumptions.
- Structure and lead high-impact strategic projects addressing Vueling’s most relevant growth, profitability, competitive, and transformation priorities.
- Develop strategic analyses, business cases, financial models, and scenarios to evaluate key decisions and growth opportunities, including organic and inorganic options.
- Lead market, industry, and competitive intelligence, monitoring external developments and competitor actions and assessing their implications for Vueling.
- Track progress against strategic priorities and Business Plan commitments, identifying performance gaps, dependencies, and required management actions.
- Coordinate effectively with Network, Finance, Commercial, Customer, Operations, Transformation, and IAG Strategy teams, and prepare clear executive-level materials and recommendations.
Requirements
- Academic background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or similar disciplines.
- Core Skills:
- Strategic planning
- Business modelling
- Data analysis
- Financial modelling
- Scenario planning
- Market trend analysis
- Secondary Skills:
- Competitive intelligence
- Cross-functional project coordination
- Stakeholder alignment
- English proficiency at C1/C2 level
- Spanish proficiency at C1 level (highly desirable)
- Experience: A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in strategic roles, ideally within the airline industry or a related competitive sector.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Flight benefits: Booking benefit flights as soon as joining us
- Variable compensation according to role, company, and individual performance
- Vueling Flex: Adjust benefits each year to your personal and family situation – Health insurance, training, transportation, and more
- Vueling Discounts: Access to a discount platform with over 400 offers in different categories such as travel, shopping, training, and more
- Make it Healthy: Programme focusing on team well-being including Gym, Nutrition, Physiotherapy, Acupuncture, Psychology support, Medical service, etc.
- Opportunities for training and development
About the Company
We're one of the top ten companies in Catalonia, and we're part of IAG, one of the world's leading aviation groups.
We are one of Europe’s leading low-cost airlines, with special relevance in the Spanish domestic market, as well as in France and Italy.
We fly direct to over 140 destinations in 30 countries in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
As part of IAG, we’ve led the way in setting a target of zero net emissions by 2050.
Our purpose is about more than just providing a transport service; it's about connecting to new adventures, reunions, firsts.
It's about who we are.
Founded in 2004
Co-workers 4500
Vueling is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other status.
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