About the Role :-

The Principal Product Manager is accountable for the success of the In-Flight solutions within the Flightscape portfolio. This role is responsible for defining and owning the overall Product Vision and Product Strategy ensuring alignment between business objectives customer needs and priorities across multiple development teams operating within SAFe Agile Release Trains.

The Principal Product Manager provides leadership across the product community including Product Owners Product Managers Train Product Managers Product Marketing Managers UX teams Engineering teams and Architects to drive a shared vision and achieve business outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Contribute to the overall Flightscape portfolio strategy through collaboration with product portfolio technology and platform teams.
• Foster a collaborative accountable and high-performing product team by partnering closely with Product Marketing Product Owners UX and Technology stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers and represent the organisation at industry events and customer forums within the Digital and Traveller Touchpoints domain.
• Analyse airline industry needs challenges and market trends to identify investment opportunities.
• Enable and support product discovery activities to validate assumptions and inform investment decisions before significant development testing maintenance or hosting efforts are undertaken.
• Establish and maintain continuous internal and external feedback loops to help define product priorities leveraging customer insights and production data where available.
• Guide product decisions and prioritisation activities to ensure alignment with the product vision and strategic objectives.
• Define and execute the product area strategy to maximise product adoption customer value and commercial success.
• Strengthen product platform capabilities and foundations to support scalable growth and integration with development services used by airline customers.
• Establish measurable business objectives and regularly review performance indicators to align product teams with the product vision and strategy.
• Manage a virtual profit and loss view with a focus on balancing revenue opportunities and cost considerations.
• Continuously improve team effectiveness collaboration ways of working and time management practices.
• Support sales readiness initiatives in partnership with Product Marketing Managers.
• Support sales enablement activities in partnership with Customer Engagement teams.
• Participate actively in Programme Increment (PI) planning events and key SAFe ceremonies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business Engineering Computer Science Information Systems Aviation or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in Product Management Product Strategy or related product leadership roles.
• 7 years of experience in Airline catering operations
• Experience defining and executing product vision strategy roadmaps and business objectives for complex software products or platforms.
• Experience working within Agile development environments including SAFe or other scaled Agile frameworks.
• Experience managing product portfolios and balancing customer needs business priorities and technical requirements.
• Experience using customer feedback market research analytics and performance data to drive product decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to align multiple teams and stakeholders around a common product vision and strategy.
• Experience supporting product adoption business growth and commercial objectives.

About CAE

At CAE our mission is clear: to help make the world a safer place. For nearly 80 years weve driven innovation in simulation training and mission readiness to support critical operations worldwide. By leveraging advanced technologies we empower our customers to operate smarter faster and more sustainably. Join a purpose-driven organization where bold ideas are encouraged collaboration drives progress and your growth fuels our shared success.

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