Trucking Executive, Chicago - Heathrow, United Kingdom - British Airways

British Airways
British Airways
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Heathrow, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Please note, this role is based in Chicago

OUR BUSINESS
Looking for a challenge in one of the world's largest airfreight logistics organisation and a FTSE 100 company?

At IAG Cargo we are in the business of moving things. From antibiotics to rhinoceros, gold bullion to avocados and everything in between. Whatever people need, wherever they are.

In an era of digital screens and closed borders, we open the skies and fly the world to bring people the things they really need.


As the logistics and cargo brand of the International Airlines Group, you will work across the globally recognised brands of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling as we build and shape a new logistics company.

We believe in a world that is always moving, with values that underpin our business.

By always delivering, always improving, always working as one team and always with integrity, we are creating an inclusive business that works for its customers and its colleagues around the globe.


THE ROLE


Working as part of a small team to provide supplier management to ensure on time trucking services worldwide across 700 routes with an overall annual budget of £26m.


Ensuring IAGC benefits from on-time performance, safe and secure worldwide trucking services which run to effective and timely schedules in addition to providing access to ad hoc levels of capacity when required.

At the same time, ensuring that effective financial controls and governance are in place.


PERSON SPECIFICATION

Skills

  • Business management skills
  • Delivers on commitments
  • High resilience and strong ability for attention to detail
  • Develops and maintains strong relationships. Excellent stakeholder management
  • Able to proactively and constructively challenge at all levels
  • Able to work to and meet business objectives
  • Owns own performance and development
  • Ability to manage tradeoffs
  • Good analytical acumen with ability to manipulate, analyse and interpret financial and business data
  • Systems literate with some understanding of MIS and other IAGC systems
  • Motivated selfstarte
  • Team player with an ability to motivate others
  • Flexible approach to working & willing to travel

Experience

  • Experience in a planning or finance role managing across the whole business cycle would be preferred
  • Proven ability to analyse data and make clear recommendations to the business
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience in cargo commercial areas and supplier management is ideally preferred
  • Ability to analyse large amounts of data and present findings concisely with insightful commentary
  • Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing
  • Proven rapid analysis and decisionmaking
  • Information acquisition, consolidation, and evaluation
  • Clearly identifies and concentrates on activities where effort applied will make a real difference
  • Able to manage conflicting and changing demands in a highpressure environment
  • Systems literate including expertise in using Excel and data exploitation tools such as Tableau (or a proven aptitude to learn)
We are one of the world's largest cargo carriers, come and be part of it.
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