Suzanne Stass, Head of Cabin Crew Performance

Suzanne Stass

Head of Cabin Crew Performance

Etihad Airways

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Diploma, Business and Management
Experience
19 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 8 Months

Head of Cabin Crew Performance at Etihad Airways
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2008

Accountable for cabin crew performance, customer service delivery, operations and administration in an award winning, premium service airline. Responsible for creating a robust, process driven cabin crew organisation in a maturing and multicultural environment.
• Leading a team of managers to ensure on board service and crew performance is inspired, consistent and complements the innovative hard products
• Ensuring safety standards are met
• Recruiting, managing developing and motivating crew in a challenging, multi cultural environment
• Representing In Flight Services in the airline’s strategic planning team ensuring cross departmental alignment of business plans and delivery of Key Performance Indicators
• Working with the airline’s alliance partners to ensure complementary service styles
• Closely involved in the development of world leading services and products, managing effective implementation plans and ensuring crew delivery on board
• Liaising and working closely with partners both to ensure efficient and consistent management of crew resources
• Leading significant change projects as well as the implementation and embedding of processes across In-flight services
• Ensuring legal, responsible and ethical practices and compliance with authorities and governing bodies.

INFLIGHT SERVICE - Fleet Manager Gatwick LGW at British Airways
  • United Kingdom
  • October 2004 to January 2008

Accountable for the delivery of excellent customer service as well as the short and long haul Cabin Crew operation at LGW.
• Accountable for leading and delivering large scale change in a complex unionised environment to deliver significant savings in crew costs
• Delivering record customer service levels in a challenging and changing environment at LGW
• Implementing product and service changes in line with the company strategy in conjunction with service partners
• Managing the performance of over 2000 cabin crew through a team of Cabin Crew Managers
• Delivering financial efficiencies through simplification and process change
• Leading a team through the day-to-day management of diverse people, scheduling, industrial agreement and policy application issues
• Successfully negotiating and implementing significant change to the Gatwick cabin crew arrangements and LGW business model with the trade unions
• Working closely with other departments in BA to make a major contribution to the overall running of British Airways business, with accountability for Cabin Services at Gatwick.

Education

Diploma, Business and Management
  • at Crawley college of Technology
  • May 1992

Accountable for the delivery of excellent customer service as well as the short and long haul Cabin Crew operation at LGW. • Accountable for leading and delivering large scale change in a complex unionised environment to deliver significant savings in crew costs • Delivering record customer service levels in a challenging and changing environment at LGW • Implementing product and service changes in line with the company strategy in conjunction with service partners • Managing the performance of over 2000 cabin crew through a team of Cabin Crew Managers • Delivering financial efficiencies through simplification and process change • Leading a team through the day-to-day management of diverse people, scheduling, industrial agreement and policy application issues • Successfully negotiating and implementing significant change to the Gatwick cabin crew arrangements and LGW business model with the trade unions • Working closely with other departments in BA to make a major contribution to the overall running of British Airways business, with accountability for Cabin Services at Gatwick.

High school or equivalent, French, Spanish, English,
  • at Hazelwick School
  • May 1977

Accountable for the delivery of excellent customer service as well as the short and long haul Cabin Crew operation at LGW. • Accountable for leading and delivering large scale change in a complex unionised environment to deliver significant savings in crew costs • Delivering record customer service levels in a challenging and changing environment at LGW • Implementing product and service changes in line with the company strategy in conjunction with service partners • Managing the performance of over 2000 cabin crew through a team of Cabin Crew Managers • Delivering financial efficiencies through simplification and process change • Leading a team through the day-to-day management of diverse people, scheduling, industrial agreement and policy application issues • Successfully negotiating and implementing significant change to the Gatwick cabin crew arrangements and LGW business model with the trade unions • Working closely with other departments in BA to make a major contribution to the overall running of British Airways business, with accountability for Cabin Services at Gatwick.

Specialties & Skills

Accountability
Scheduling
Efficiencies
Operation
Project and programme management
Creating processes
Negotiation
Communications
Leadership training and development
Oganisation and planning
Leadership
People mangement
Managing discipline and recognition
Customer service

Languages

English
Expert
Spanish
Intermediate
French
Intermediate