Why IAG GBS? 

IAG GBS (Global Business Services) is part of International Airlines Group, one of the world’s leading airline groups, with 546 aircraft flying to over 270 destinations, carrying more than 100 million passengers each year.

IAG GBS provides a plug and play platform of scalable, best in class procurement, finance and IT business services to IAG’s operating companies which include Aer Lingus, Avios, British Airways, IAG, IAG Cargo, Iberia, Iberia Express, LEVEL and Vueling.

The company is headquartered in Krakow, and has operations in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Dublin.

• Leading a sub-category of procurement spend across a range of products and services for aircraft seating on all the fleets in the IAG operating companies.
• Working across the operating companies, ensuring the delivery of effective, robust and compliant procurement that delivers the business plan while maximising the Group’s buying power.
• Leading strategic activities, including category planning, sourcing, risk management and act as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders. 
• Taking responsibility for developing and implementing a 3-5 year strategy for the aircraft seating category.
• Taking responsibility for developing and implementing local and global sourcing strategies for all external spend related activity.
• Maintaining positive and active stakeholder relationships in all operating companies, ensuring appropriately robust challenge while delivering the operating companies’ business plans.
• Managing supplier risk to protect the operating companies and the Group from financial, operational and reputational damage.
• Providing commercial innovation to stakeholders through interaction with stakeholders and supply base to evaluate opportunities.
• Working with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve commercial and contractual disputes; in particular suppliers with high complexity and/or high spend.
• Supporting operating companies tier 1 (high strategic/high risk/high spend) projects. Work with strategic suppliers to grow and develop supplier markets.
• Active liaison with suppliers, operating company stakeholders and IAG GBS Procurement Operations Centre to ensure supplier performance management is acceptable and compliant with contracts.
• Working alongside business areas to identify, challenge, harmonise and simplify specifications and processes across the operating companies to ensure that Group buying power is maximised.
• Ensuring that all procurement activity is carried out in line with Group and operating company governance principles.
• Developing effective working relations with key interfaces across the Group and operating companies including line, finance, legal and other stakeholders.
• Taking an active role in cross-departmental strategic and leadership activities.
• Maintaining swift project reporting utilising IAG GBS centralised digital activity systems.

• Aeronautical Engineering / Engineering or Business / Economics degree.
• Strong business and financial acumen with minimum 5 years of demonstrable responsibility in a complex global organization.
• Senior level responsibility for leading cross-cultural teams in a matrix organization.
• Experience of working in an environment of change involving people, process, policy and technology.
• Strong demonstrable commercial expertise including evaluation, contract negotiation and dispute resolution.
• Strong aptitude and knowledge across cabin life cycle and awareness of market trends and suppliers.
• Excellent people management with the ability to inspire, lead, build and deliver through high-performance teams.
• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to evaluate, analyse and solve problems.
• Ability to influence, align diverse views and gain consensus, providing clarity and direction on what is to be achieved and break down barriers that get in the way of effective team working.
• Ability to prioritise, maintain clear focus and provide direction in constant ambiguity and change, using knowledge, judgment, resilience and courage to resolve conflicting priorities and manage crises.
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment with tight deadlines, finite resource and uncertainty.

• Willingness to travel and work in a multi-site/location environment.
• The chance to enjoy a challenging and rewarding career in an exciting, fast-moving environment in a dynamic industry.
• The opportunity to work in a multi-cultural environment with pleasant offices in several attractive locations. IAG GBS works to provide all our people with a healthy work/life balance, as well as the many benefits offered by a global organisation, including health insurance, pension and performance bonuses.
• We are an equal opportunities employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.