Chief Data Officer

CDO role

As Chief Data Officer (CDO), you will drive the strategic use of data to empower decision-making and enhance skeyes' organisational performance. Leading the newly created Corporate Business Intelligence team, you will champion a culture of innovation, collaboration, and data-driven excellence, ensuring skeyes remains agile and competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape.

What does a skeyes CDO do?

As CDO, you will provide transformative leadership to drive the transition to a data-driven culture within skeyes, ensuring operational excellence and strategic decision-making are powered by high-quality and actionable (aviation) data insights. Reporting to the CEO, you will closely work with the COO, CIO, and CSO, driving cross-functional collaboration to embed aviation intelligence and data governance. As the head of the “data insights engine” leading a team of up to 10 direct reports, you will coordinate multidisciplinary teams across various departments, ensure alignment to optimize aviation intelligence data, supporting safe, efficient and data-driven air traffic management.

Aviation Intelligence and Management

• Develop and execute robust & compliant data governance strategies to ensure the quality, integrity, and security of aviation operational data.
• Lead the integration of Aviation Intelligence tools and systems, ensuring availability of critical operational data for real-time flight management and decision-making.
• Standardise data management processes & culture across skeyes in alignment with existing IT frameworks, ensuring compliance with aviation-specific regulations.
• Foster communication and collaboration with external regulators and data providers to ensure compliance, regulatory alignment, and integration of key data into operational strategies.

Strategic use of data

• Drive data-driven processes and follow data trends to enhance operations, overall business performance and inform real-time decision making.
• Drive & foster advanced data analysis to achieve strategic business objectives.
• Deliver actionable insights through dashboards, analytics, and data products & applications to internal customers while respecting departmental operations.

Operational reporting

• Design and oversee the delivery of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) specific to air traffic control operations, ensuring timely, accurate insights into organisational performance, safety and efficiency.
• Integrate Aviation Intelligence insights into management reporting and delivering reports to the directive committee to align with skeyes' strategic goals.

Process optimisation and business analysis

• Conduct in-depth analyses to identify bottlenecks in processes and workflows and implement data-driven solutions for non-IT processes.
• Collaborate closely with the CSO to integrate these insights into skeyes' strategic planning to ensure process improvement.

Strengthening a data-driven culture

• Foster a culture where data is central to decision-making, operational innovation, and continuous improvement within air traffic management.
• Promote organisation-wide adoption of data-driven approaches by providing training and development opportunities.
• Support departments in embedding and sustaining this mindset.