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Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week at VHQ, Crawley Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday Contract Type: Permanent Salary: Competitive Closing Date: 26th September 2025<h2>In a nutshell</h2> At Virgin Atlantic, our people are at the heart of everything we do – and no one makes our flights possible without the brilliance of our pilots and cabin crew. As Head of Crew Logistics, you’ll lead the strategy and operation that ensures our crew are always in the right place, at the right time, ready to deliver exceptional journeys for our customers. This is more than an operational role – it’s about leading with empathy, inspiring teams, and creating trust in one of the most complex and critical areas of our business. With responsibility for a nine-figure P&amp;L, you’ll balance safety and compliance with commercial discipline, innovation, and care for the teams who bring our red spirit to life.<h2>Day to day</h2><ul><li>Lead the planning, rostering, and on-the-day crewing of pilots and cabin crew to deliver a safe, compliant, and efficient flying programme</li><li>Develop and execute our Crew Logistics strategy, ensuring both short-term delivery and long-term establishment needs are met</li><li>Partner with Cabin Crew Management, Flight Crew Management, and the Operations Control Centre to keep our operation resilient and responsive</li><li>Align with training and recruitment teams to ensure accurate establishment planning, optimising crew size, mix, and readiness</li><li>Oversee global hotel and transport provision for crew, ensuring quality, efficiency, and value for money</li><li>Build strong, collaborative relationships with pilots, cabin crew, and their union representatives, fostering dialogue and trust</li><li>Take accountability for a nine-figure P&amp;L, ensuring efficiency, cost discipline, and value for money across all crew logistics operations</li><li>Lead your teams with emotional intelligence – creating clarity in uncertainty, developing people, and maintaining engagement in a high-demand environment</li><li>Drive continuous improvement, leveraging automation, AI, and smarter processes to enhance efficiency and crew experience</li></ul><h2>About you</h2> We’re looking for a leader with exceptional emotional intelligence – someone who thrives on people leadership, brings calm authority to complex situations, and inspires confidence across diverse and highly skilled teams.You’ll bring:<ul><li>Proven leadership experience in workforce planning, crew logistics, or other elements of complex operations</li><li>A track record of managing large teams, in aviation, or other similar industries</li><li>The ability to balance empathy with decisiveness – building trust, engaging and maintaining constructive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders</li><li>Strong financial and commercial acumen, with experience of owning significant budgets or P&amp;L responsibility</li><li>Strong analytical skills, using data and insight to solve problems and drive sustainable improvement</li><li>Strategic vision paired with the resilience and agility to deliver in a fast-paced, high-stakes operational context</li><li>(Ideally) knowledge of crew resourcing regulations</li></ul><h2>Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger</h2> Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (<a href="mailto:recruitment@fly.virgin.com" target="_blank">recruitment@fly.virgin.com</a>) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.<h2>Our recipe for Leadership</h2> At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? <a href="https://careers.virginatlantic.com/leadership" target="_blank">Click here</a>

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Head of Crew Logistics: Virgin Atlantic

Permanent – Full time -Salary: £27,000 - 40,000&nbsp;doe -&nbsp;Location: Gatwick I Hybrid &nbsp;About AerFinAerFin is breathing new life into aviation. We buy, sell, lease and repair aircraft, engines, and parts to maximise the value for their owners and provide a lower-cost supply of material to our airline, lessor and MRO customers. Through our deep technical expertise and high-performance culture, we deliver confidence-inspiring quality, safety and value to our customers. Our blend of industry expertise and experience – today’s insight and tomorrow’s foresight – gives us a unique perspective on our industry that is trusted by over 600 customers across six continents. With regional hubs in Europe, Asia and the USA we’re perfectly placed to keep fleets flying and get deals done. That’s the AerFin way. That’s the way ahead.About the roleWe are looking for a Supply Chain Specialist to support the day-to-day activities of the Supply Chain Lead, focusing on developing commercial and technical expertise within our Airbus product line. In this role, you will manage airframe teardowns, conduct asset evaluations, obtain vendor quotes, initiate repairs, make purchasing recommendations, and oversee global distribution. Additionally, you will manage customer contracts, particularly Power by the Hour (PBH) and Exchange programs, to ensure customer satisfaction.If you possess strong analytical skills and the ability to proactively drive innovation, process improvement, and strategic expansion within the supply chain, we would like to hear from you. &nbsp;Responsibilities:<ul><li>Communicate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless service delivery to customers.</li><li>Assist with periodic product line valuations and lot valuations.</li><li>Source and obtain pricing, condition, and availability information for requirements.</li><li>Enter and update data in the Quantum system.</li><li>Maintain professional relationships internally and externally, ensuring effective communication.</li><li>Estimate cost and turnaround times.</li><li>Provide day-to-day sales support, help improve sales revenue, and manage aftermarket sales and service.</li><li>Assist in setting fair market values for components, aligning with market changes.</li><li>Evaluate purchasing needs and execute purchasing strategies to meet product line budgets.</li><li>Review and prepare responses to customer RFPs and contract proposals, achieving commercial metrics.</li><li>Generate monthly reports.</li><li>Ensure contractual obligations are met and communicate performance deviations to relevant departments.</li><li>Identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to inventory levels, supply chain disruptions, or market fluctuations affecting the product line.</li></ul>You will ideally need the following:<ul><li>Bachelor's degree preferably in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a field related to Supply Chain, Procurement, or Inventory Management</li><li>Experience in a related field such as Supply Chain, Procurement, or Inventory management.</li><li>Technical knowledge in aviation maintenance, airframe, or powerplant is a plus.</li><li>Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI).</li><li>Strong analytical skills.</li><li>Excellent communication and organisational skills with attention to detail.</li><li>Team player with strong interpersonal skills, capable of handling various projects.</li><li>Ability to build strong relationships with customers and vendors.</li><li>Willingness to travel as needed to trade shows and suppliers (limited travel required).</li></ul>In return we offer:<ul><li>Discretionary Bonus Scheme</li><li>Flexible working, ability to work between home and the office</li><li>Volunteering Leave</li><li>Life Assurance</li><li>Pension Scheme</li><li>Employee Assistance Program (EAP)</li><li>Healthcare Scheme</li><li>27 days of annual with an option to buy or sell an additional 5 days per year</li><li>Electric Vehicle Leasing Scheme</li><li>Season Ticket Loan</li><li>Social events and much more</li></ul>We're actively reviewing applications and conducting interviews regularly. To ensure your consideration, please submit your application early. Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy once a suitable candidate is found, so don't delay in sending your CV today for immediate consideration.AerFin is an equal opportunities employer, which cultivates opinion, listens to all views with respect, recognises people based on their merits without bias and embraces diversity.(NB. we will not consider any CVs from agencies at this point, and will reach out to our PSL if required)

Supply Chain Specialist: Aerfin

The primary objective of the Portals Senior Delivery &amp; Release Manager is to facilitate delivery on the Portals Application(s) through the requirement elicitation, technical estimation and design, impact assessment, software engineering delivery, release and in-life support of new features/enhancements.The Senior Delivery Manager is also expected to manage and operate the Product Team, interfacing with the Product Owner to ensure that processes and procedures are continually optimised to provide on-going value to the Business and Rentokil Customers.Tasks and Responsibilities● Managing Feature Funnel - working alongside the Product Owner, Portfolio Owner and Business Teams (across regions) to understand feature requests from several stakeholders to agree (with Product Owner) priorities for delivery considering inter-dependent components and/or complementary features and/or wider IT/Product Strategy alignment● Managing and Owning a Product Delivery Roadmap - taking priorities from the Product Owner and working across the team to produce a milestone deliverable/release plan as a baseline, which is maintained and updated regularly to reflect changing priorities and deliverables● Managing Software Development - utilising technical knowledge to challenge and drive team estimation and managing technical dependencies within the team and external to the team to ensure successful and timely delivery of quality software components into the Product. Engages with other domain SMEs as necessary to validate team approaches and provide audit/governance (e.g. InfoSec for security, Enterprise Architecture for solution design, etc.)● Managing Team - utilising Agile delivery experiences to manage the day to day activities of the team, including (but not limited to) running agile ceremonies (standups, planning, grooming, alignment, demos, retros), facilitating workshops, team well-being and the interdependencies of tasks between different team members to ensure alignment to delivery plans● Managing RAIDs - working with the Product team and wider IT organisation to own, manage and maintain a RAID log and proactively action and/or communicate/escalate these to the Product Owner / Portfolio Owner as appropriate and necessary● Managing Releases - ensuring the governance and processes set out at Rentokil are adhered to, including change communication, change control, IT change assessments● Managing Comms - ensuring the Business teams and any applicable other Product teams are engaged and prepared for any Releases into Production and any dependent activities are planned in advance (e.g. smoke testing by downstream products teams). Ensuring the release roadmap is shared and understood by all stakeholders● Managing Suppliers &amp; Budgets - working alongside the Product Owner and Portfolio Owner to manage suppliers and partners engaged in the successful delivery within the Product team, including reviewing budgets, capacity, future demand and burndown to ensure that the team’s throughput is sustainableRequirements:● Has achieved proficiency at Level 5 in any SFIA Skill, OR: Has gained experience (typically five years) working as a constructive user or supplier of information services with significant exposure to, and knowledge of, a major Service provision Skill and the operational flows of the organisation.● Has proven project management and leadership skills. Demonstrates up to date knowledge of the organisation’s business environment, culture, policy framework, organisational relationships, business processes, and reporting procedures.● Displays good inter-personal skills at all levels of contact and in a wide variety of situations, demonstrates the ability to listen and influence, and to relate to customers in their own language.● Demonstrates sound practical knowledge of associated technical disciplines e.g. process re-design, systems development and service delivery. Uses a high level of technical understanding to interpret technical issues for the business and sustain credibility with IT.● Educated to bachelor degree level and holds a relevant professional qualification.Benefits:<ul><li>Competitive salary and bonus scheme</li><li>Hybrid working</li><li>Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme</li><li>23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme</li><li>Death in service benefit</li><li>Healthcare</li><li>Free parking</li></ul>At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to (<a href="mailto:joanna.sharpe@rentokil-initial.com" target="_blank">joanna.sharpe@rentokil-initial.com</a>) if you need anything Be Yourself in Your Application! At Rentokil Initial, we value innovation, but we want to see the real you! While AI can help with structure and grammar, make sure your application shows your true passion and understanding of the role. A personal touch will help you stand out.&nbsp;

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