<p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This role has the responsibility of leading the end-to-end governance, accuracy, and operationalization of Air Canada’s Meal Pre-Order and printed menu programs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Collaborative relationships with operational groups and business partners are key to the success of this job. Working closely with their peers in the Inflight, Digital Product, Finance and Catering Operations teams, the Product Owner, Meal Pre-Order ensures strategic alignment, program stability, data integrity, and network readiness while managing day-to-day operational requirements.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Meal Pre-Order Program Ownership</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Populate the monthly Meal Pre-Order files with accurate catering information across all stations, cabins, and routes, ensuring data integrity across all stations and menus.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Manage the upload, verification and troubleshooting process for Meal Pre-Order and lead governance of file accuracy within Air Canada digital applications, ensuring timely availability for customers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Lead day-to-day program operations, ensuring a seamless end-to-end experience for customers, crew, internal and external stakeholders.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Establish structured governance standards and quality checks across all program elements.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>IT and Backend Support</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Act as primary liaison with IT, Digital, ECX and external IT partners for issue triage, prioritization, resolution, and validation.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Lead and support testing cycles for new features, releases, bug fixes and system enhancements.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Maintain a structured, prioritized backlog of enhancements, defects and tech improvements, ensuring alignment with development teams and business priorities.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Program Development, Growth and Strategy</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Define, refine and execute the long-term vision for Meal Pre-Order, including expansion into new cabins, routes and partner catering stations and new product types.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Identify and assess opportunities to evolve functionality, operational scalability and the end-to-end customer journey.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Socialize ideas and implement in collaboration with Digital and IT teams.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Lead cross-functional planning with Catering, In-Flight Service, Airports, and Digital teams to ensure readiness, alignment and successful deployment of enhancements.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Benchmarking and Competitive Insights</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Conduct ongoing competitive benchmarking to understand global airline best practices in Meal Pre Order technology inclusive of pre-order windows, menu UX/UI, personalization models and engagement strategies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Translate insights into actionable product recommendations that elevate Air Canada’s offering and support premium positioning.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Monitor industry trends in digital retail, customer choice architecture, and airline personalization tools.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Liaise with In-Flight Service, Airports, Catering Operations and all external catering partners to support operational execution and communication plans for Meal Pre-Order updates and launches.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Lead training and onboarding for catering partners and ensure compliance with Meal Pre-Order processes across stations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Provide clear, proactive communication to internal stakeholders on program performance, risks, operational issues, customer insights, and roadmap milestones.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Analytics, Reporting and Continuous Improvement</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Partner with Data Product, ECX and Customer Insights teams to monitor KPIs, customer selection behaviour, operational load impact, fulfillment performance, and system stability.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Analyze trends to drive product optimizations, operational improvements, and future roadmap decisions.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Support the creation, refinement, and automation of dashboards/reports to support data-driven decision making.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Printed Menu – Supporting Responsibilities</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Support the upload process for printed menu files in Air Canada applications, including audits, validation and discrepancy resolution.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Support the printer, caterers and the Air Canada Catering Product team with ongoing printed menu requirements such as: menu proofing, logistics coordination and mid-month reconciliation or adjustment activities.</span></li></ul><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Minimum 3 years’ experience in Business Administration, commercial airlines, technology, catering or the equivalent.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Bachelor’s degree in relevant field. </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Solid understanding of commercial airline business an asset.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Highly organized with strong time-management skills and an aptitude to prioritize multiple tasks and responsibilities.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Strong attention to detail, especially in data entry and validation, proofing, and quality checks.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Creative mindset and be able to generate innovative ideas to improve the processes and customer experience.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Ability to manage monthly operational cycles, tight deadlines, and multiple moving pieces.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Proven ability to work well under pressure and with minimal supervision.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Proactive, adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with shifting priorities.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Demonstrated problem-solving skills.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Strong sense of ownership and accountability for deliverables.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Must be extremely proficient in Microsoft Office applications.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Ability to work flexible hours, as required.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Bilingual preferred - English and French.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Conditions of Employment:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Linguistic Requirements</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Diversity and Inclusion</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.</strong></span></p>