• Job Description

  Req#: 220115
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  Cost Transformation Manager

  It’s official – easyJet is one of the best places to work in the UK! We are among the winners of the annual Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the UK’s Top 50 Best Places to Work 2024. You can be a part of it too, our Finance and Procurement teams are detail-focused problem-solvers who handle billions worth of assets and keep us on track for further growth. You’ll play an essential role in maintaining the balance between ‘service’ and ‘cost’ that makes travelling with us both accessible and enjoyable.

  The Cost Transformation Team at easyJet plays a critical role in driving our low-cost model and delivering our cost strategy, aiming to significantly improve our market cost position. With a target of delivering over £500M in initiative savings over the next five years, we are dedicated to making travel both easy and affordable.
  As part of the FP&A department, the team partners with various business units—such as flight operations, ground handling, customer service, engineering, and procurement—to understand their largest cost drivers, prioritise impactful initiatives and facilitate tracking to maximise benefits. We are looking for a Cost Transformation Manager to engage with senior management and project owners, supporting them in achieving their transformation targets and ensuring cost improvement plans drive financial impact.

  Reporting to the Head of Cost Transformation, the Cost Transformation Manager will maintain influential cross-functional relationships within Finance and with directors and project owners across the organisation. Responsibilities include providing analysis for initiative business cases, summarising initiatives for executive review, calculating KPI baselines, and developing estimates of financial benefits.
  The role also involves refining initiatives, conducting trend and variance analysis, facilitating innovation workshops, and supporting business leaders in monthly performance reviews. Additionally, the manager will handle ad-hoc projects related to cost drivers, benchmarking, fleet analysis, and automation to continuously enhance cost performance and culture.

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  What you need to do the role
  We are seeking a professionally qualified individual in a commercial or technical discipline to join our team. While experience with projects, business improvement, or change management programs is beneficial, it is not essential. The ideal candidate will have the ability to identify, quantify, and communicate financial benefits to non-financial stakeholders.
  Building relationships and influencing stakeholders to ensure the integrity of their inputs is crucial. Proficiency in Microsoft Office at an intermediate to advanced level is required. A background in cost management is preferred, but a keen interest in cost-related work is essential.

  What you’ll get in return
  > Competitive base salary
  > Up to 20% bonus
  > 25 days holiday
  > BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
  > 7% pension
  > Life Assurance
  > Flexible benefits package
  > Excellent staff travel benefits

  LOCATION & HOURS OF WORK
  This full-time role will be based in Luton and will be 40 hours per week. We support hybrid working and we spend three days per week in the office.

  
  About easyJet
  At easyJet our aim is to make low cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

  It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

  Apply
  Complete your application on our careers site.

  We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.

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• About the company

  EasyJet plc is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport.

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