Chief of Staff – Global Commercial Airline Technology

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences.

With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

The Chief of Staff (CoS) is the principal strategic partner to the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). In this high-impact role, you will oversee progress and execution of the commercial roadmap, in partnership with the product organization manage the overall strategic direction, in partnership with internal communications ensure all of the commercial and product team understand the direction we are heading in, ensure optimal benefits are derived from the commercial ops team, manage the governance of the leadership team, and safeguard the CCO’s time by resolving complex organizational issues before they require executive intervention.

As a force multiplier, you will bridge the gap between high-level strategy development and daily operational execution, ensuring that our $500M business unit moves with focus, pace, and strategic clarity.

The Airline Technology Context:
We operate in a complex, mission‑critical ecosystem where the global travel industry is undergoing a generational shift. Our business focuses on providing the technology backbone for airlines—transitioning from legacy Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and commodity-based selling to modern retailing. This involves the implementation of sophisticated Offer and Order management systems (SaaS) and the Sabre Mosaic platform. The CoS must understand this landscape to ensure that our commercial strategies align with the rapid evolution of airline distribution and customer centricity.

Additionally, armed with this clarity it must be able to lead and coordinate strategic projects from inception to implementation, ensuring we build out the capabilities needed for success now and in the future.

• Strategic Roadmap Stewardship:
  Manage the long‑term execution of the Go‑To‑Market (GTM) strategy, ensuring that corporate objectives are successfully cascaded into departmental work streams.
• "Big Rocks" program Lead:
  Serve as the primary PMO for critical CCO‑mandated initiatives, specifically overseeing the re‑engineering of the Deal Approval process, the Commercial Incentive Plan (SIP) simplification, and Product Prioritization frameworks.
• Corporate Objective Cascade:
  Ensure that long‑term goals remain the priority amidst shifting market conditions, maintaining a clear line of sight between local sales activity and global strategy.
• Operational Governance:
  Identify bottlenecks in internal communication or decision‑making and implement systems to fix them, fostering a culture of focus and pace.
• Product, commercial operations and communication alignment:
  Ensure all parts supporting the commercial execution with our customers drive in the same direction with minimal internal administrative complexity.

• Sales Pipeline Leadership:
  Partner with the commercial operations team to ensure a simple and effective global sales pipeline reporting process, ensuring data integrity across all regions to provide a single source of truth for our revenue targets.
• Commercial Performance Governance:
  Partner with the commercial operations team to drive accountability across the leadership team by ensuring alignment with budget, sales targets, and revenue goals.
• KPI & OKR Management:
  Partner with the commercial operations team and leadership to define, communicate, and track progress against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Advanced Analytics:
  Partner with the commercial operations team to utilize CRM architectures and data visualization platforms to drive…