Senior Manager Customer Experience

Permanent employee, Full-time · Amstelveen

Purpose of the job
POSITION WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION
 
This role is part of Team Marketing & Sustainability and reports to Director Innovation, 
Customer and Product. ICX, is responsible for defining SkyTeam’s customer and product 
proposition, including loyalty and sustainability, enhancing brand awareness and 
perception, and creating meaningful value for our member airlines and their passengers.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

In this role, as Senior Manager Customer Experience, you’ll take ownership of 
building and maintaining a clear, strategic view of the entire SkyTeam product portfolio. 
This means you’ll define the product roadmap with a strong focus on what truly matters: 
creating value for our member airlines and delivering a seamless experience for 
travellers flying across multiple carriers. You can expect approximately 4 to 8 trips 
abroad per year, each lasting 1 to 3 days.

It’s worth noting that you won’t be doing this alone, you’ll work hand-in-hand with 
passionate product managers across key areas like SkyPriority, IATCI, Loyalty, 
Sustainability, Lounges, Service Recovery, Airport Operations, and Digital. Together, 
you’ll identify and prioritize the customer attributes that should be consistently delivered 
by our members. You’ll be the glue that connects our members and internal teams, 
aligning everyone around shared goals. Whether it’s setting the right expectations, 
building strong business cases, onboarding teams, or driving engagement, you’ll be at 
the center of it all—making things happen.

Finally, your customers aren’t just the passengers; they’re also our member airlines. 
They fund SkyTeam and play a major role in delivering our products, making your 
impact even more meaningful.


Your profile
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

  •  Product portfolio management : you will contribute to delivering value to SkyTeam’s passengers and members, guided by the alliance’s multi-year strategy and annual flight plan. As part of your responsibilities shared with management and overseen by the Senior Manager of Customer Experience, you will provide a high-level vision of various products: how they support the overall strategy, where they stand in their life cycles, and their cost-benefit ratios. Ultimately, you  will support the Senior Manager in developing recommendations for product evolution and in creating decision-making tools to help SkyTeam management prioritize projects effectively.
KPI : clarity and usage of the product portfolio overview and arbitration tools.

  • Customer journey : You will directly manage some of SkyTeam’s products in collaboration with the team and the Senior Manager of Customer Experience. This includes defining the product and its positioning, setting service standards or product specifications, and enabling other departments; such as Digital, Lounges, and Airport, to develop the appropriate solutions.
KPI : capacity to align and engage internal SkyTeam teams (e.g., Digital, etc.), number of products being monitored, number of pain points resolved, and the quality of assessments and feedback provided to members.

  • Engagement with members : an important area of your focus and ownership will be ongoing member engagement, including (but not limited to) organizing recurring events with members. You will help convene Advisory Groups, Working Groups, and Subject Matter Experts at least twice a year, either in Amsterdam or abroad, bringing together up to 40 participants.
KPI: airline adhesion and satisfaction.

  •  Support to Alliance Operations : To ensure proper product delivery by members and support the audit team, you will be required to participate in SkyTeam member audits abroad once or twice a year. These visits will provide valuable insights into product delivery and passenger pain points.
MAIN STAKEHOLDERS

INTERNAL 
• Marketing & Sustainability
• Marketing & Branding
• Digital & Information Technology
• Airport Operations & Lounges

EXTERNAL
• Member airlines (Customer experience, Ground Operations, and Marketing)
• Vendors and service providers
• Consultants

REQUIRED SKILLS / ABILITIES 
• Leadership
• Portfolio Strategy
• Collaboration and diplomacy
• Empathy
• Ambition
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Motivating others
• Capability to operate in a multi-cultural environments
• Cultural awareness
 Strong communication skills
• Persuasiveness
• Solution-oriented
• Initiative
• Commercial focus
• Creates a climate of cooperation and drive
• Plans and follows up
• Supports prioritization based on customer impact and feasibility
• Analytical approach
• Affinity with SkyTeam values
• Teamwork
About us
SkyTeam strives to provide the safest and most seamless customer journey of any global airline alliance. Our members work together to connect millions of passengers safely and seamlessly through an extensive global network. It is an esteemed international organization that brings together different cultures and backgrounds, all united by our passion for the airline industry. In addition to our focus on the passage side of aviation, we also focus on cargo.
At SkyTeam, we know the importance of a fresh perspective. With members spread across five continents and different time zones, we are flexible and agile, focused on delivering services that create synergy. Our headquarters is a hotbed of innovation and creativity, allowing us to adapt quickly to the rapidly changing airline industry.

SkyTeam's headquarters in Amstelveen represents more than 30 different nationalities. Our employees come from many different backgrounds and reflect the diversity of our member airlines. We are passionate about diversity and embrace an inclusive, non-discriminatory work community where we celebrate our differences and share our successes and hard work to contribute to member value.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Thank you for your interest in SkyTeam
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