Integrated Planning Manager
Wizz Air · Budapest
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- Integrated Planning Manager
- Date: Sep 8, 2026
- Company: Wizz Air Hungary Zrt.
- Location:
Budapest, HU, H-1095
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY!
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.
Integrated Planning Manager
Based in Budapest
Purpose of the role
The Integrated Planning Manager supports the alignment, execution, and follow-up of strategic and operational plans across Wizz Air’s core business areas (Commercial, Operations, Finance and Fleet). This role plays a key part in improving forecast reliability, translating business priorities into executable initiatives, and driving accountability for delivery. The Integrated Planning Manager is expected to be an agent of change and constantly looking for ways to improve cross functional processes of the organization.
Responsibilities
Strategic Cross-Functional Planning Support:
Lead the development of integrated strategic, commercial, operational and financial plans across key business functions.
Challenge planning assumptions, timelines and dependencies to ensure plans are commercially realistic, financially robust and aligned with business priorities.
Translate strategic priorities into clear initiatives, milestones, owners and decision points to drive disciplined execution.
Execution, Performance & Risk Management
Drive regular performance reviews of key initiatives, tracking progress against agreed milestones, financial targets and expected business outcomes.
Identify delivery risks, commercial trade-offs and financial implications early, and escalate clear mitigation options for decision-making.
Connect dependencies across functions to ensure execution plans remain coordinated, actionable and focused on value delivery.
Forecasting & Business Case and Financial Impact:
Integrate commercial, operational and fleet planning inputs into financial forecasts, ensuring assumptions are transparent, challenged and linked to executable actions.
Evaluate approved business cases against delivery milestones, financial benefits and value realization, highlighting gaps versus plan.
Partner with business case owners to refine timelines, adjust plans and support decisions that protect or enhance financial outcomes.
Stakeholder Leadership & Decision Support:
Partner proactively with Commercial, Corporate, Operations, Finance, Fleet and Maintenance stakeholders to align plans, resolve trade-offs and accelerate execution.
Lead planning discussions and steering reviews with clear agendas, decisions required, owners, timelines and follow-up actions.
Build a culture of ownership, commercial awareness, proactive risk management and disciplined financial planning across the business.
Experience
4–6+ years of experience in strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, commercial planning, business case development, performance management or cross-functional transformation roles.
Aviation experience is an advantage.
- Hard skills
- Solid understanding of planning processes, initiative tracking, and business case follow-up.
- Proficient in using Excel, PowerPoint, and project tracking or planning tools
- Experience with BI tools, SQL and Phyton would be an advantage
- Ability to structure complex information and present it clearly to stakeholders at different levels.
- Commercial acumen
- Experience with airline economics would be an advantage
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or related field is required.
- Master’s degree or MBA is an advantage.
- Language
Fluent English (both written and spoken)
Skills and competencies
Strong analytical and commercial judgement, with the ability to identify value drivers, risks and trade-offs.
Confident communicator able to influence stakeholders, challenge assumptions and align teams around clear actions.
Proactive ownership mindset with strong follow-through, delivery discipline and focus on measurable outcomes.
Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where priorities evolve.
Solution-oriented team player who drives clarity, accountability and continuous improvement across planning processes
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.
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