Senior Manager, Lease Management
The Carlyle Group
Dublin, Ireland
Position Summary
Responsibilities
- Lead the management of a portfolio of airline customers, ensuring compliance with lease agreements acting as a senior point of contact for key lessees, managing relationships across both performing and stressed credits
- Coordinate Lease Management activities across regions, ensuring consistency of approach and alignment of priorities
- Lead and coordinate complex lessee matters, including restructurings, deferrals, waivers, amendments, and enforcement-related discussions by working closely with Credit, Legal, and Marketing teams to develop and execute transaction strategies
- Partner closely with the Head of Lease Management in monitoring portfolio performance, including the preparation and delivery of reporting, analysis, and key insights
- Provide guidance and oversight to more junior team members, supporting consistency of approach and quality of output across the team
- Own and actively manage cash collections for the assigned portfolio, including monitoring receivables, proactive engagement with airline customers on overdue amounts, and leading the timely resolution of arrears in coordination with Credit and internal stakeholders
- Responsibility (utilizing service providers) for the timely and accurate invoicing of customers
- Support airline customers with audit requirements
- Perform maintenance reserves rates escalations
- Work closely with the Head of Lease Management to oversee maintenance claims workflows, manage prioritization and bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement of processes, controls, and reporting
- Actively participate in Deal Teams in respect of your airlines as required
- Liaise with Outsource Provider on contract and lease terms to ensure seamless transfer of executed terms to the Lease Management System
- Support fund accountants in respect of servicer report queries from management agents / investors
- Review of processes in place with a view to increasing efficiency and accuracy of reporting
- Other ad-hoc tasks as required
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, required
- Minimum 7 years previous experience in a similar role in aircraft leasing or aviation finance
- Proven experience managing complex airline credit matters, including restructurings, deferrals, waivers, and enforcement-related discussions, with the ability to balance asset protection, commercial outcomes, and stakeholder alignment
- Exposure to maintenance reserves claims management across all major aircraft components, with a strong understanding of associated technical and commercial considerations
- Working knowledge of the Leaseworks Contract Management System or a similar system
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate and resolve complex technical maintenance matters, engaging effectively with airline customers, MROs, and internal stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions and time zones
- Leads by example, demonstrating respectful, professional, and solution-focused behaviors, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment
- Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to balance risk, return, and stakeholder interests
- Champion effective and fast communications and distil messages appropriately
- Experienced relationship builder, knowing who to interact with and whose buy-in is required while holding customer expectations as core
- Bring broad perspective and thinking to the role and have original thought, challenge, and innovation
- Be diligent, thorough, numerate and with a keen attention to detail
- Structured, pragmatic, and solution-oriented approach to problem solving
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other departments
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and willingness to adapt working day as required to attend calls at times that also work for the Miami, Singapore and Dublin teams and your allocated customers
- Additional language skills relevant to the APAC region would be an advantage
Company Information
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $477 billion of assets under management, across 678 investment vehicles as of December 31, 2025. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 2,500 professionals operating in 27 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Carlyle’s purpose is to connect people, ideas, and capital to fuel growth for companies and performance for investors, which range from public and private pension funds to wealthy individuals and families to sovereign wealth funds, unions and corporations. Carlyle invests across three segments – Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Carlyle AlpInvest – and has deep expertise across industries, markets, and geographies.
At Carlyle, we believe that a wide spectrum of experiences and viewpoints drives performance and success. Our CEO, Harvey Schwartz, has stated that, "To build better businesses and create value for all of our stakeholders, we are focused on assembling leadership teams with the strongest insights from a range of perspectives." Reflecting this view, emphasis is placed on development, retention and inclusion through our internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We cultivate a culture where ideas are openly shared and challenged, connecting diverse expertise and perspectives to drive enduring value.