Travel Unit Services Operations Lead (Budget & Resource)

Job Title Travel Unit Services Operations Lead (Budget & Resource) The Travel Unit Services Operations Lead (Budget & Resource) is responsible for strengthening how Travel Unit Professional Services Engineering plans, monitors and steers its budget, capacity and resource needs. The role serves as a cross-functional operations lead for Services Engineering, ensuring financial indicators, demand trends, capacity planning and workforce requirements are connected through a reliable operating framework. By bringing structure, transparency and coordination to complex topics across multiple organizations, the role enables informed decision-making, effective prioritization and predictable delivery capacity. The position will operationalize and continuously improve the Services resource and budget management model across Travel Unit, with a particular focus on the AIR-SEE organization and its interfaces with other Travel Unit organizations. The role leads the Travel Unit Services capacity management program, supports budget and resource governance, acts as a key Engineering interface with Business Operations Planning (BOP), and coordinates the end-to-end lifecycle of resource and recruitment requests.

Key Responsibilities

Capacity Planning and Resource Management

• Lead the Travel Unit Services capacity management program, aligning budget, workforce capacity, skills, recruitment plans and demand forecasts through the R.A.D.A.R. (Resource Allocation, Demand and Recruitment) framework.
• Develop and maintain an operating model that connects budget allocation, Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) capacity, workforce footprint and recruitment activities with portfolio priorities and anticipated demand.
• Coordinate resource planning, hiring needs, workload visibility and capacity monitoring across Services Engineering and relevant stakeholder groups.
• Establish reporting, governance routines and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that provide visibility into capacity, recruitment progress, workload and demand gaps.
• Drive continuous improvements to workforce planning processes, data quality, reporting and decision-making practices.

Budget Management and Financial Steering

• Manage assigned transversal budget lines, ensuring accurate planning, forecasting, monitoring and reporting.
• Support budget owners by facilitating collaboration across Engineering, Finance, Business Operations Planning (BOP) and business stakeholders.
• Consolidate budget inputs, identify risks and variances, and recommend corrective actions to support financial objectives.
• Prepare business cases and arbitration requests with clear rationale, quantified impacts and decision options.
• Promote fact-based decision-making through meaningful financial and operational reporting.

Stakeholder Coordination and Governance

• Partner with Engineering, Finance, People & Culture (P&C), Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), delivery teams and business stakeholders to align priorities, governance and decision-making.
• Act as the primary Engineering contact for budget and resource topics with Business Operations Planning (BOP).
• Translate Engineering priorities and constraints into operational and financial insights to support planning and arbitration discussions.
• Facilitate governance forums, escalation paths and recurring reviews to ensure timely visibility and resolution of capacity or budget challenges.
• Foster alignment, transparency and shared understanding across stakeholders by making assumptions, dependencies and risks visible.

Resource Demand and Recruitment Follow-up

• Collect, structure and monitor resource and recruitment requests, ensuring clarity of scope, timing, location, funding and approval status.
• Coordinate approval processes with Engineering leadership, People & Culture (P&C), Business Operations Planning (BOP) and governance forums.
• Maintain end-to-end visibility of resource requests from demand identification through approval, recruitment and staffing progress.
• Report on recruitment status, pending decisions, bottlenecks, workforce ratios and delivery risks.
• Support proactive workforce planning by identifying opportunities to improve predictability, simplify processes and reduce lead times.

Key Interfaces

• Services Engineering leadership teams.
• Business Operations Planning (BOP), Finance and People & Culture (P&C) stakeholders.
• Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and delivery organizations.
• Budget line owners and recruitment stakeholders across Travel Unit.
• Portfolio, business and operational governance forums.

Success Measures

• Capacity management governance, reporting and planning processes are established, understood and consistently followed.
• Budget monitoring is accurate, timely and actionable, enabling effective decision-making and prioritization.
• Engineering requirements and constraints are clearly reflected in budget planning and business discussions.
• Resource and recruitment requests are managed with improved visibility, transparency and follow-through.
• Stakeholders recognize the role as a trusted coordination point for budget, capacity and workforce planning topics.
• Continuous improvements reduce manual effort, increase efficiency and improve operational predictability.

Ideal Candidate

• Experience in operations management, program management, financial planning, workforce planning, portfolio management or Engineering delivery coordination.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, priorities and decision-makers in a matrix environment.
• Strong understanding of capacity planning, resource management, budget management and operational performance monitoring.
• Ability to translate complex operational and financial information into clear reporting, recommendations and actionable decisions.
• Effective stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build alignment across diverse teams.
• Data-driven and structured approach, with experience using reporting, dashboards and KPIs to support decision-making.
• Continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on simplifying processes, enhancing transparency and improving operational efficiency.

What we can offer you ?

• A critical mission and purpose - At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.
• A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.
• Great opportunities to learn - Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.
• A caring environment - Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.
• A complete rewards offer - Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer, including salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.
• A flexible working model - We want our employees to do their best work, wherever and however it works best for them.
• A diverse and inclusive community - We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.
• A Reliable Company - Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.

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