Group Leader, LATAM

Job Summary:

As Group Leader, you will have overall responsibility for business strategy and execution for several Volaris businesses within the LATAM & Iberia portfolio. Periodically, you may be expected to act as player-coach requiring you to be more of a hands-on leader for a specific single business (player) while overseeing the other business leaders (coach) in the group. In addition, you will be required to take on an Integration Manager role to oversee business integration activities for newly acquired entities in the market. And finally, from time to time depending on workload, you may also be called on to help source, nurture, qualify, negotiate, diligence or close smaller tuck-in acquisitions or stand-alone businesses within the portfolio’s scope.

This role requires a professional to be fluent in both English and Portuguese, Spanish highly preferred. 

Job Description:

Strategy:

• Hire, professionally develop, and retain a high-quality, high-intensity, high-integrity business leaders and functional leaders that are market current, technical, commercially and project management strong, and that can deliver sustainably improving (growth and profitability) levels of results.
• Working with the management team along with internal and external stakeholders, develop a long-range company vision and mission for each business, and a systematic business and product evolution roadmap to achieve it.
• Develop clear business plans, priorities, and forecasts, and ensure short-range forecasts (net revenue and EBITA) are delivered as expected.
• Evolve business processes and systems along with corresponding policies to ensure scalability, the availability of timely data to make the best business decisions, and to comply with regulations and corporate governance requirements.

Operations:

• Develop and oversee win-win relationships with key customers and partners to maximize long-term commercial success for all parties and to find creative solutions to challenges/problems as they occur.
• Ensure alignment of each business and functional department’s KPI’s with Volaris targets, and professionally develop each functional leader to embrace and perfect Volaris best practices in the market.
• Ensure a strong talent management process is adopted to attract and retain talent, ensure strong employee engagement, put in place succession plans to manage risks, embrace scalability, and harvest up-and-coming talent.
• Tracking & reporting – conduct weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings to promote teamwork, align on priorities, and strive for strong ongoing performance improvement and forecasting accuracy.
• Provide quarterly analysis of ongoing business performance.

Required skills and qualifications

• 8+ years of experience overseeing several business units
• Broad business acumen related to the growth and operations of software entities
• Financial acumen and analytical skills in combination with strategic, action-oriented mindset
• Keen assessor of talent, especially for senior management roles with an eye toward future growth and organizational design
• Outstanding ability to work through/develop others to achieve key objectives and to inspire confidence
• Well versed in all Talent Management and Development process and procedures 
• Ability to travel as required based on business needs
• Nimble strategic thinker that is comfortable taking calculated business risks and remains resilient through business challenges
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to listen effectively and to communicate complex concepts concisely to drive organizational alignment and clarity
• This role requires a professional to be fluent in both English and Portuguese, Spanish highly preferred. 

Other Activities:

Attend management meetings, annual events, and other activities internationally.

Worker Type:

Regular

Number of Openings Available:    

1