Job Description

Wizz Air is a leading European low-cost airline. Our mission is to provide affordable and reliable air travel to everyone, everywhere, while minimizing our environmental impact. We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive team of over 8,000 employees from more than 110 nationalities, who share our values of inclusivity, positivity, dedication, integrity, and sustainability.

As a rapidly expanding airline, we offer exciting career opportunities across a range of functions, from flight operations to engineering, customer experience, finance, and more. We provide extensive training and development opportunities to help our employees grow and succeed in their roles. Joining Wizz Air means joining a team that is passionate about aviation, dedicated to excellence, and committed to making air travel accessible and sustainable for all. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in the aviation industry, we welcome you to explore our job opportunities and become a part of our success story.

Customer Experience Regulatory Compliance Team Manager

Based in Budapest

Purpose of the role

To ensure regulatory compliance and maintain strong relationships with authorities by overseeing official claim handling, reporting, and legal defence strategies across jurisdictions. The role also drives operational excellence through process optimization, automation initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance departmental performance and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an excellent relationship with Authorities assisting Head of Customer;
• Ensuring legal compliance with authority standards for official claim handling;
• Working closely with Disruption Control Center and Evidence Collection team, supervising daily reporting of disrupted flights;
• Monitor defence strategies and tendencies in different jurisdictions and shape defence strategies optimizing cost-benefit ratio;
• Contribute to identify new functional opportunities to reduce human interactions in favour of self-service and automation;
• Provide data and draft responses to RFIs (Requests for Information) received from Authorities;
• Monitor and integrate internal and regulatory requirement to departmental processes;
• Maintain, standardize, and update departmental process flows and procedures;
• Create and update departmental manuals for relevant area of responsibility;
• Organize and lead trainings about compliance and the regulatory background of each jurisdiction;
• Compliance reviews in collaboration with LEGAL department;
• Manage budget-reporting;
• Build and maintain good work relationship with dedicated agents of contracted providers;
• Provide information and regularly distribute processes, policies, manuals to peer functions and external partners as applicable;
• Compose reports and regularly report on area of responsibility;
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly revision of actions for area of responsibility and present on company level;
• Participating in strategic projects to improve departmental performance and customer satisfaction metrics;
• Identify new functional opportunities that will strengthen customer engagement;
• Participate in cross-functional projects;
• Responding to ad hoc requests for management information;
• Liaising with other departments within the organization;
• Deputize peer functions within department when required;
• Being up-to-date in relevant WIZZ policies and procedures as well as on-going campaigns.

Experience

• 4-6+ years working experience with at least 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in aviation, operations in aviation, compliance, communications is preferred

Hard skills

• Above average written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Advanced computer literacy.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent

Language

Fluent in English (both written and spoken)

Skills and competencies

• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Ability to work under time pressure.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.
• Cultural awareness regarding MENA region is a plus.

When applying, please only provide valid information regarding your educational background and certificates, as the original documents will be requested during the hiring process.

We look forward to meeting you and learning more about your skills and experience. Join the Wizz Air team and discover the world of opportunities.