Vice President Aviation Business Development
CurrentRoute development and planning: • Develops dynamic strategies for international route and passenger growth • Drives innovation in route development, commercial offers, agreements and incentive offers that reflect commercially intelligent negotiated outcomes • Collaboration with other Airports to develop joint route proposals • Deliver a minimum of two new routes and significant organic growth with existing airline partners each financial year to reach and exceed strategic goalsStakeholder Management: • Builds relationships with key airline representatives and international government and business entities to advance the aviation business development strategy • Engages with Tourism, Industry, Education and other industry sector stakeholders to increase visitor opportunities • Actively engages with State and Federal Government departments about both aviation, tourism, export and business policies to support and champion aviation business development Marketing: • Work in collaboration with the commercial marketing team to create and deliver strategic marketing campaigns to promote the services of airlines operating at Perth Airport, with the overall goal of driving the performance of their flights (passenger numbers, load factors, market share and route profitability) • Develop, lead and manage joint marketing campaigns in Australia and overseas with airlines, tourism & travel trade partners as well as other industry stakeholders including Tourism Western Australia • Create unique and tailored marketing campaigns with key airline network decision makersCommercial: • Developed sophisticated and innovative destination business case presentations, tailored to the airlines needs • Champion the implementation of a CRM to effectively track business performance and client relationship management