.Product Management Excellence Principal Specialist Business Environment The Airline Solutions Product Management team is looking for a Product Management Excellence Principal Specialist to contribute to the evolution and growth of our Product Management Excellence practice. In the ever-evolving landscape of our industry, a strong product management practice is paramount to meet the diverse and evolving needs of our airline customers. That's why we are committed to growing and evolving our organization to ensure all Product Managers have the skills, tools, and knowledge needed to exceed customer expectations and drive mutual success. If you are passionate about the way we build products to make travel better for everyone, read on. About the role You will define and drive the evolution of the product management practice and mind-set across the end-to-end product lifecycle for the Airline Solutions unit, helping Product Managers to make fast and high-quality product decisions. You will work with the product management community across all of Amadeus and adapt industry best practices to make sure teams focus on value generation for our customers whilst applying an all-encompassing approach to product management. In this role you will: Define and promote product management best practices – Lead the definition, evolution, and adoption of product management best practices for Airline Solutions. Work with the product leadership team and product managers to identify upskilling needs and liaise with the relevant teams to define a plan of execution. Work with people managers to analyse and remove impediments to improve the efficiency of our product management practices. Lead Amadeus' Product Life Cycle (PLC) adoption and evolution – PLC is our internal, companywide, product management framework. Lead the activities to support the framework adoption in the Airline Solutions business line. Implement the PLC corporate guidelines in the organisation. Be the liaison point for Airline Solutions for all subjects related to PLC, feeding back field learnings to the global PLC organisation and working cross-functionally to improve the framework. Measure progress – Define, measure and communicate about product management practice metrics, focusing on speed and quality of our product decision making. Coach and mentor product managers – Be known as the expert on product management best practices and support product managers of all seniority. Provide expert guidance, promote innovation, train and coach groups or individuals as required on product management practices and tools. Research and identify new best practices – Perform continuous monitoring, build a strong network internally and externally to maintain expertise of product management practices. Analyse how Amadeus can implement these new best practices. The role, as currently defined, does not have direct reports
