Date: Sep 13, 2024

Company: Wizz Air Hungary Légiközlekedési Korlátolt Felelős

Location:Budapest, HU, H-1103

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY!
Wizz Air is a leading European low-cost airline. Our mission is to provide affordable and reliable air travel to everyone, everywhere, while minimizing our environmental impact. We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive team of over 8,000 employees from more than 100 nationalities, who share our values of inclusivity, positivity, dedication, integrity, and sustainability.

As a rapidly expanding airline, we offer exciting career opportunities across a range of functions, from flight operations to engineering, customer experience, finance, and more. We provide extensive training and development opportunities to help our employees grow and succeed in their roles. Joining Wizz Air means joining a team that is passionate about aviation, dedicated to excellence, and committed to making air travel accessible and sustainable for all. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in the aviation industry, we welcome you to explore our job opportunities and become a part of our success story.

Scheduling and Slots Manager
Based in Budapest

Purpose of the position:

Are you up for the challenge of designing a flight schedule that connects 200 airports with 1,000 daily flights? The combinations are endless, can you find the best solution? If you enjoy-problem solving, and you are a curious and self-driven individual with analytical mindset and comfortable walking the thin line between OPS and Commercial… The Scheduling and Slots team is recruiting!

As a Scheduling and Slots Manager, your mission is to design optimal flight schedules that blend low cost, profitability, and strategic market positioning – directly contributing to the growth and success of WIZZ AIR.

What we offer:

• Base salary and employee bonus scheme
• Unlimited number of significantly discounted and confirmed seating tickets, giving access to a continuously growing network of destinations.
• Relocation package (if applicable) – expense budget, Temporary accommodation, Administration support
• Life insurance
• AYCM sport pass contracting possibility.
• Instant impact, from any level of the organisation, exposure to C-suite management
• Fast career progression, internal mobility and talent management supported by training opportunities (Wizz Academy and bespoke trainings)
• True international and multi-cultural work environment, passionate, driven, and diverse teams

Responsibilities:

SCHEDULE DESIGN

• Ensure the schedule of each base delivers the company cost targets of aircraft and crew utilisation.
• Work cross functionally with Revenue Management and Network Development teams to enhance each schedule’s revenue potential, and asses the feasibility of network or capacity changes.
• Liaise with Ground Operations, Flight Operations, Operations Control, Maintenance and Crew Planning teams to ensure the feasibility of the schedules and minimise the cost of the operation.
• Load and manage flight capacity into the operational and reservation systems, collaborating with Customer Experience team in the management of schedule changes.

AIRPORT SLOT MANAGEMENT

• Secure airport slots for each season schedule.
• Manage the current slot historic rights and secure new ones, protecting WIZZ future positions in congested airports.
• Provide analysis on airport capacity and strategies to maximise growth opportunities in congested airports.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

• Increase the team efficiency by reducing manual tasks through automatic solutions or new processes.
• Increase the data-driven profile of the team with the development of new analytic, optimisation and simulation models.

Requirements:

• Business mindset and strong problem solving skills.
• Passionate for optimisation and data. You can draw data driven conclusions through analysis and modelling.
• You pay attention to the details. As far as you're concerned, anything worth doing is worth doing right, every single time.
• Self-driven. You have fantastic organisational and ownership skills, integrity, and great follow through on tasks. You don't get overwhelmed easily. You know how to prioritise.
• Naturally curious. You're innovative, creative and constantly looking for ways to tweak and optimise.
• Comfort with change. Being comfortable working with a high degree of ambiguity will be critical.
• Team player. You excel in collaborating across departments, you are the bridge builder.
• Finalized College or University degree
• Fluent English knowledge (both spoken and written).
• Openness to live and work in Budapest, Hungary.
• Flexibility to travel as required away from Head Office.

When applying, please only provide valid information regarding your educational background and certificates, as the original documents will be requested during the hiring process.

We look forward to meeting you and learning more about your skills and experience. Join the Wizz Air team and discover the world of opportunities.