Vice President-Customer Support

Pay or shift range: $210,320 USD to $262,900 USD. The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job‑related reasons.

Job Summary

The Vice President‑Customer Support is an executive leader with full P&L responsibility for Cirrus Aircraft’s global customer support organization. This role defines and executes customer support strategy across ownership programs, mobile maintenance services, and the authorized service network, ensuring exceptional customer experiences, operational excellence, and sustainable growth throughout the aircraft lifecycle.

• This position will serve a crucial role in delivering the Cirrus brand experience we want for our customers. This role will drive enhancements in the team serving customers in several capacities.
• P/L responsibility for Customer Support business unit
• Key functions include:
  • Timely resolution of customer and aircraft challenges. End to end ownership of solving problems.
  • Timely resolution of AOG customers
  • Technical support and problem resolution
  • Execution of aircraft ownership programs
  • Development, deployment and administration of Cirrus owned mobile maintenance assets
  • Cultivate the network of third party, Cirrus Authorized Flight Training & Aircraft Maintenance service providers
  • Develop and deploy systems, processes, tools, teams and talent to optimize outcomes
• Lead team through change management processes to deploy newly formed organization and structure. The new organization will have 4 areas of focus to enhance support for Cirrus customers.
• Deploy newly formed Customer Resource Center to focus on timely and complete resolution of customer challenges. Lead further refinement through iterations of CRC concept.
• Lead newly formed organization developing and deploying mobile maintenance assets.
• Lead newly formed organization managing authorized network of flight training and maintenance service providers.
• Lead further development and execution of Jet Stream, warranty and other service packages.
• Ensure Exceptional Customer Service:
• Energize the Cirrus Service Essentials and Guiding Principles.
• Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.
• Strives to improve service performance, acts with urgency to resolve customer challenges.
• Emphasizes customer satisfaction during all team meetings and focus on continuous innovation.
• Inspire, lead, coach, mentor, recruit, retain and develop team of aviation professionals delivering world class customer support to a global customer base.
• Lead Continuous Innovation efforts to constantly refine the customer experience through innovation and adopting new standards into the "Cirrus Services Play Book."
• Demonstrate entrepreneurship, change leadership, negotiation and influence, business acumen, operational decision making, customer orientation, driving for results, managing and measuring work, interpersonal skills and superior ability to positively relate and communicate to customers.
• Perform leadership functions such as conducting annual reviews, making hiring decisions, managing performance of director reports, mentoring and skill development.
• Participate in strategic planning discussions. Arrange and organize key financial data and results for centers in one merged presentation for review by leaders. Assist in the preparation and management of capital budget, P/L planning, operating budget, organization planning, data systems planning, and expense management for assigned areas.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelors degree in business administration, Aviation Management or related field required;
  Masters degree preferred. Demonstrated leadership, business and financial acumen required.
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in customer support, with at…