Europe's second-largest pharmaceutical cargo hub operating 210 global routes
Brussels Airport moves 23.6 million passengers and 733,000 tonnes of freight annually across 210 destinations via 80 airlines, with an outsized focus on temperature-controlled pharma logistics. The tech stack spans SAP S/4HANA, Snowflake, Kubernetes, and ServiceNow—enterprise infrastructure typical of large-scale logistics operators—while active hiring across engineering (40 roles) and ops (33 roles) signals aggressive modernization: flight information API integration, CDB-to-AOBP transformation, and passenger experience improvements are live, paired with cloud infrastructure optimization and legacy tool replacement projects.
Notable leadership hires: Commercial Lead, Head of Controlling
Brussels Airport Company operates one of Europe's top-tier aviation hubs from Zaventem, Belgium, hosting over 1,000 employees and anchoring 64,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Belgian economy. Beyond passenger transit, the airport specializes in cargo operations—particularly temperature-controlled pharmaceutical, perishable, e-commerce, and live-animal transport—and holds the largest temperature-controlled warehouse footprint in Europe. The organization manages both leisure and business travel flows while running a substantial cargo platform that generates significant economic activity across the region.
Core systems: SAP S/4HANA for ERP, Snowflake for data, ServiceNow for ITSM, Kubernetes for orchestration. Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, HPE Aruba, VMware, Veeam. Analytics: Tableau, Piwik Pro, Hotjar, GIS. Also runs Maximo for asset management.
ICT roadmap modernization, flight information API integration, CDB-to-AOBP transformation, passenger experience improvements, enterprise tool updates, emergency procedures, and net-zero carbon strategy.
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