Hybrid VP Strategy

Posted 7 hours ago

Apply now

About the role

  • VP Strategy at Cirium leading enterprise strategy development and execution across aviation analytics initiatives with a focus on growth and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities

  • Own the development and continuous refinement of Cirium’s long‑term enterprise strategy, grounded in deep customer insight, rigorous market analysis, and data‑driven decision‑making
  • Define strategic priorities and investment theses across products, data assets, markets, and emerging digital ecosystems
  • Partner closely with the CEO and Leadership Team to ensure strategic coherence across the organisation
  • Lead Cirium’s annual strategy development and planning cycles, translating choices into executable roadmaps with clear KPIs and outcome ownership
  • Build and maintain a unified enterprise-wide view of market opportunities, product evolution, data asset priorities, and commercial focus areas
  • Establish governance mechanisms to track progress and ensure disciplined execution of strategic bets
  • Lead high‑impact, cross‑functional strategic programmes spanning new product innovation, pricing, customer segments, technology investment, and operational excellence
  • Bring structured evaluation and sizing to strategic opportunities, making recommendations grounded in commercial and operational feasibility
  • Lead the development of Cirium’s M&A strategy and pipeline, aligned to long‑term portfolio ambition
  • Partner closely with RELX Corporate Development across sourcing, diligence, business case creation, deal negotiation, and integration planning
  • Identify and evaluate new data partnerships, strategic alliances and ecosystem plays that strengthen Cirium’s differentiated market position
  • Provide a forward‑looking external perspective to Cirium—developing deep customer, competitor, and market understanding to help the business “see around corners”
  • Shape SLT and Board‑level decision‑making through insight, foresight, and clear strategic narratives
  • Build, develop, and lead Cirium’s strategy capability that models analytical excellence, curiosity, and innovation
  • Influence and align senior stakeholders globally, ensuring strategy translates into clear decisions and measurable outcomes.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in senior strategy roles within data, technology, aviation, analytics, or related B2B information industries
  • A background in top-tier consulting (BCG, Bain, McKinsey) or equivalent strategy leadership experience strongly preferred
  • Exceptional problem‑solving capability and comfort with ambiguity—able to bring structure, rigour, and insight to complex landscapes
  • Outstanding ability to synthesize, simplify, and communicate complex ideas in compelling ways.
  • Strong financial acumen with a proven track record of linking strategic decisions to commercial outcomes
  • Proven experience operating in a global, matrixed environment
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior stakeholders, driving coherent decisions at scale
  • Strong storytelling, narrative, and external communication skills
  • Experience evaluating acquisitions, partnerships, market adjacencies, and ecosystem opportunities

Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
  • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
  • Wellbeing programs
  • Life assurance
  • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Save As You Earn share option scheme
  • Travel Season ticket loan
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme
  • Optional Dental Insurance
  • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
  • RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
  • Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
  • Access to extensive learning and development resources
  • Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

Job title

VP Strategy

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

Report this job

See something inaccurate? Let us know and we'll update the listing.

Report job