Kia ora!
Join Air New Zealand, an award-winning airline and iconic brand that connects people, businesses, and communities across the globe. Our Cargo business in New Zealand is pivotal, linking New Zealand customers and partners around the country and the world, on our extensive network. We’re looking for a Regional Cargo Manager who is passionate about making connections and inspiring teams to achieve excellence.
About the role:
Air New Zealand is continuing to transform its Cargo's business into a competitive, efficient, modern day Cargo business – and the Regional Cargo Manager New Zealand is core to achieving these objectives.
You will be tasked with leading the team through a significant transformation period as well as focussing on the regional strategy. This will be achieved through a clear focus on the customer, culture, commercial outcomes, operational complexities, quality and regulatory standards that are required to create a world class Cargo business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Strategic Sales Leadership: Create and drive sales strategies that are focused on growth and aligned with our customers’ needs.
- People Leadership: Lead, empower, and inspire the New Zealand Sales team. Champion a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and high performance where everyone feels valued.
- Guiding Change: Navigate the team through transformation with empathy and resilience, ensuring they feel supported and motivated to adapt and succeed.
- Ownership of New Zealand Cargo Sales function: Oversee full P&L responsibility, ensuring operations are efficient, effective, and aligned with our goals.
- Building Connections: Forge and maintain strong relationships with industry stakeholders, internal teams, and suppliers, always with a view to strengthening community ties and supporting local businesses.
- Market Insight and Innovation: Leverage insights and trends to shape innovative strategies that keep us responsive to customer needs and ahead of the curve.
About you:
To succeed in this role, you will need to be a strong people leader with experience developing, motivating and aligning a diverse team. You will bring 'Mana' to the role that will easily create a strong culture and respect with the team and other stakeholders as well as a true focus for the health, safety and wellbeing of your people. Coupled with this leadership ability, you will have an obsession for a customer first approach, have an understanding of local and global trade, sales strategies and a passion for connecting customers to the world.
The Cargo business has large growth plans on the horizon, and as part of the global sales function, you will need to bring a transformational and growth-orientated mindset with a strong results orientation to help create and execute strategic plans.
Our ideal candidate:
- Proven experience as a people-focused leader in sales or commercial management, with strong business acumen.
- Respected in the industry for not only your results but your commitment to building and supporting high-performance teams.
- A natural relationship-builder, able to coach, motivate, and inspire a diverse team to achieve their best.
- Adaptable and compassionate, skilled in guiding teams through change with a steady hand and a shared sense of purpose.
- Collaborative, with an ability to rally support and align teams around a common vision.
Are you ready to lead and inspire? Apply today to embark on a rewarding journey with Air New Zealand Cargo.
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
