Manager Strategic Cost

**Company Description** About Jetstar**

We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. And we're not just an Australian airline either - the Jetstar Group also includes Jetstar Asia and Jetstar Japan, and is one of the largest low-cost airline groups in Asia Pacific by revenue. As a group, we operate a fleet of more than 115 aircraft, including the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.
- ** Exciting opportunity within the Jetstar Operational Transformation team**:

- ** Take pride in managing the strategic development and end to end program delivery of the Jetstar strategic cost and transformation program**:

- ** 12-month fixed-term contract position located at our Collingwood Head Office**

**The Opportunity**

The Operational Transformation team partners with Jetstar Airways operational business units and their leadership teams to identify, measure and deliver tangible opportunities to capture commercial benefits associated with cost efficiency and improved effectiveness opportunities.

The **Manager Cost & Operational Efficiency** will partner with and build strong performance-based relationships with the Jetstar operational management teams to identify significant cost improvement opportunities.

This role reports into the Senior Manager, Operational Transformation and is accountable for delivering the strategic cost program objectives & required benefits whilst maintaining alignment with the safety and business goals of Jetstar Airways.

**The core responsibilities of this role will be**:

- Leading multiple opportunity assessments and will be the single point of accountability for stakeholder management during the identification, validation and project implementation including project planning and delivery support, ensuring the anticipated commercial benefits are realised across the Jetstar business
- Analysing and identify opportunities across the breadth of Jetstar business activities, driving increased commercial acumen and enhancing capability with respect to the process across the portfolio of Jetstar Operational areas
- Managing multiple indirect resources across multiple assessments to identify cost drivers and cost efficiency opportunities, including directing the development of financial and organisational baselines, comparator analysis and carving out departmental activities as fully-loaded virtual P&Ls to enable the sizing of each opportunity
- Partnering with operational teams to build the necessary business cases required for approval, including assisting with resources required to deliver the project and high-level project plans. In addition to ensuring the business delivers on the business case including ensuring meeting project timelines and benefits realisation

**To be considered, key skills will include**:

- Previous experience within management consulting and/or a corporate strategy, or commercial role
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to build strong relationships and become a trusted advisor with stakeholders across the operation
- Strong critical thinking skills, with ability to utilise analysis and insights to support decision making
- Confidence in developing presentations and business cases, including presenting to a range of senior stakeholders
- A strong track record of successfully delivering projects and changes initiatives
- Ability to balance long-term strategic projects, while implementing improvement initiatives that create cost savings opportunities
- Tertiary qualifications in a Bachelor of Commerce, Economics, Strategy or a relevant industry experience would be highly regarded
- Experience in continuous improvement methodologies (Lean Six Sigma) highly regarded

**Applications close: Monday 27th January, 2025**

**_ Our Culture_**
- Jetstar is alive with a sense of adventure. Day in and day out, our teams search for new places to fly, new ways to add value and new ideas to improve performance. If you love the road less travelled, you’ll love working here because ours is a team who innovate every day, thrive on delivery, support each other and celebrate our successes. You’ll be supported to challenge, anticipate and explore while you work will connect people and enrich lives. We encourage diversity and aim to create an environment where our employees feel valued, respected and enabled._

**_ Our Benefits_**
- Team members have access to heavily discounted fares to destinations all over the world - not only for team members, but for their favourite travel companions too. Our staff travel benefit includes discounts on airfares, accommodation, car h