Head of Airports (Cargo)

Design and support the execution of transformation roadmaps, working closely with IAG’s businesses.Implement major and complex change to IAG’s combined objectives.Responsibility for developing and implementing local and global sourcing strategies for all external spend related activity.Management of stakeholder relationships in all operating companies, ensuring appropriately robust challenge while delivering the operating companies’ business plans.Manage supplier risk to protect the operating companies and the Group from financial, operational and reputational damage.Provide commercial innovation to internal stakeholders through interaction with the supply base.Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve commercial and contractual disputes; in particular suppliers with high complexity and/or high spend.Support operating companies tier 1 (high strategic/high risk/high spend) projects. Work with strategic suppliers to grow and develop supplier markets.Work alongside business areas to identify, challenge, harmonise and simplify specifications and processes across the operating companies to ensure that Group buying power is maximised.Ensure that all activity is carried out in line with Group and operating company governance principles.Develop effective working relations with key interfaces across the Group and operating companies including line, finance, legal and other stakeholders.Take active role in cross-departmental strategic and leadership activities.Key Relationships/InterfacesBusiness leaders in each of the operating companies.Finance.Legal.Suppliers.