Seat Integration Manager
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Job Summary
The Seat Integration Manager leads the design development and integration of complex IFE/connectivity products into aircraft seats ensuring they are competitive profitable and aligned with airline customer needs. This role oversees the full product lifecycle from early innovation and strategy through development certification production and obsolescence while ensuring seamless integration across multiple seat platforms and OEM environments.
The position carries both strategic product ownership and program execution responsibility acting as the central point of coordination between engineering suppliers OEMs seat vendors and internal solution teams.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic & Product Leadership
Contribute to the overall Solution Strategy and MultiYear Budget planning for seatintegrated products.
Deliver annual Product Policy outputs: product roadmap strategy competitiveness assessments.
Own the product roadmap across all seat platforms including investment planning technology evolution and lifecycle management.
Ensure product policy execution and alignment with business engineering and customer priorities.
Support solutionlevel activities such as early product definition supplier selection and Make/Team/Buy decisions.
Seat Integration & Technical Execution
Lead integration of IFE/connectivity products into various seat types (e.g. linefit retrofit premium economy).
Coordinate with Project Engineers and Product Owners to define and validate requirements user specifications and integration constraints.
Oversee development certification and firstarticle production to ensure ontime onbudget highquality delivery.
Manage technical and program interfaces with seat manufacturers OEMs (Airbus/Boeing) and internal engineering teams.
Ensure compliance with seatlevel requirements: mechanical electrical thermal safety certification and maintainability.
Program & Supplier Management
Lead the productlevel IPT ensuring alignment across engineering procurement manufacturing and customer success.
Conduct internal program reviews (PMRs IPRs risk reviews) and maintain accurate project documentation.
Manage all productrelated budgets (CFR&D SFR&D CAPEX OPEX).
Drive supplier selection and manage relationships with key partners and seat vendors.
Serve as a primary technical and program interface with OEMs and customers.
Commercial & Customer Support
Develop and validate the sales kit for seatintegrated products.
Support marketing business development and customer success teams with product promotion and bid activities.
Represent the business line in customer reviews ensuring customerspecific integration needs are captured and delivered.
Right for this role
Background in avionics ideally with exposure to IFE/connectivity and airline/seatvendor ecosystems.
Experience with managing complex aerospace development programs.
Strong understanding of product architecture and technical tradeoffs.
Financial and business acumen.
Experience working with multicultural teams across time zones.
Knowledge of software development and system integration.
Proficiency with MS Office; familiarity with SAP Primavera MS Project.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing full product lifecycle economics.
Market analysis experience in IFE or related technology sectors.
Experience with valuebased pricing and business model development.
Project Management Certification.
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