Senior Manager – People Strategy

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 7th May 2025

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, we are committed to driving forward and delivering our People teams strategic goals. We are looking for a visionary leader to join our Partnering & Performance team as the Senior Manager – People Strategy. This role is key to supporting the Vice President (VP) Partnering & Performance VP and Chief People Officer in defining and executing People goals through structured planning processes and ensuring alignment across Virgin Atlantic.

As the Senior Manager – People Strategy, you will play a crucial role in long term people strategic goals, translating plans into measurable actions. You will work closely with People Leadership Team (PLT), holding accountability of delivery. Linking across the People team and wider Senior Leadership Group to define and execute People goals, staying connected to external partners, trends, and insights to challenge the status quo.

Day to day

Lead and support People teams in the planning and delivery of VX30 and Chief People Officer’s strategic goals.
Provide critical, strategic thinking, analysis, and ideas that can be deployed company-wide to deliver the desired business outcomes.
Develop and deliver structured planning processes, ensuring alignment across Virgin Atlantic.
Conduct external research and trends analysis to identify people opportunities and initiatives.
Prepare effective documentation (e.g., presentations, Board papers, analyses) to support strategic decision-making and delivery.
Oversee the delivery of strategic projects, driving cross-functional alignment and providing on-the-ground support for issue resolution.
Work closely with the People Performance Team to identify specific KPIs that allow progress to be tracked against People Plan on a Page, projects, and key initiatives through weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting.
Lead the articulation of Virgin Atlantic’s Employer Value Proposition, working with Internal Communications and Recruitment to ensure it is well understood across the company and to prospective candidates.
Work closely with the People Performance Team, Leadership Team members, Senior Leaders, Corporate Development, Finance, and PMO to ensure alignment and effective execution of strategic initiatives.
Lead the People team Awards submissions, ensuring awards are reflective of the efforts of the People team.

About you

Experience in similar senior strategy role with large enterprise programme transformation delivery. Evidence of strong analytical, strategic and critical thinking skills, with successful demonstration of large-scale business benefits.
Ideally from HR background with experience in aviation working in complex, matrixed environments and managing competing priorities.
Evidence of excellent communication, influencing, and interpersonal skills. Working confidently and credibly with senior managers/leaders, forming strong personal relationships.
Experience of strong coaching and advisory capability across all levels of leadership to simplify complex problems and solutions into succinct presentations and narratives.
Demonstrable strategic planning capability with demonstrable experience setting, tracking, and delivering against metrics and KPIs across short- and long-term objectives.
Evidence of leveraging data and insights to shape strategy and measure impact utilising PowerBI, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint.

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Be yourself

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, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2720

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en