American Airlines · 1 day ago
Sr Manager, Strategic Planning and Analysis
Fort Worth, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expAmerican Airlines is a leading airline company that offers extensive travel opportunities and career growth. The Sr Manager of Strategic Planning and Analysis will lead forecasting and planning initiatives, manage a team of analysts, and collaborate with various departments to optimize the airline's resources and drive revenue opportunities.
AerospaceAutomotiveTransportationTravel
Responsibilities
Leads forecasting and planning initiatives regarding American’s strategic resources (fleet, infrastructure, partnerships, etc.)
Leads a team of analysts responsible for production and analysis of multiple enterprise forecasts, including annual budgets, quarterly five-year-plan high-level forecasts and monthly rolling level updates of capacity, level of operations and revenue
Partners with various teams including Network Planning, Revenue Management, Revenue Analysis, Regional Planning, Financial Planning, and Crew Planning, among other internal stakeholders, to ensure delivery of inputs necessary for the production and dissemination of company forecasts
Leverage analysis of current performance and future forecasts to identify opportunities for improving and optimizing utilization of assets and resources including crew hours and aircraft
Leads a team to identify and quantify revenue opportunities through in-depth analysis of data. Develops and recommends practical revenue management solutions, taking a strong leadership role in a wide variety of revenue initiatives, collaborating with other departments including Pricing, Yield Management, Network Planning, Sales, Finance, AAdvantage, and Marketing
Drives forward top priority commercial initiatives that span across the company and our partner airlines, bringing alignment around commercial strategies, maintaining clear communication across teams, and ensuring cross-functional actions are completed
Drives and coordinates projects with other departments and presents analyses and recommendations to senior management
Ensures continuous training and provides development opportunities for the analyst pool
Contributes to and drives forward a thriving team culture exemplified by personal integrity and accountability, respect and inclusiveness, collaboration, adaptability, positivity, and care for others
Builds on knowledge and experience to create a vision for the future direction of Strategic Planning & Analysis, other commercial teams, and the company at large. Able to lead peers, as well as directors and above, in discussions around the future direction of the company. Seeks improvement opportunities outside of defined role and responsibilities
Creates buy-in from peers to drive towards a defined direction, establishes influence within peers group, serves as mentor/role model, pushes the group to be better and holds the group accountable
Willing to travel when needed for business
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience/training
7 years work experience
Ability to manage a team and support critical business decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Master in verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with all levels both within and outside the organization. Tailors communication to the audience in a way that is meaningful and elicits a response that is geared towards action and, or understanding for future decisions
Ability to build collaborative relationships with and consensus amongst multiple stakeholders with varying points of view at all levels of the organization
Ability to solve and to lead others in solving complex analytical problems Independent work ethic, inquisitive nature and history of challenging the status-quo
Ability to thrive in an unstructured role, work through ambiguous problems and be resilient in the face of criticism and constructive feedback
Demonstrated ability to take a project from conceptualization through implementation
Ability to develop and adhere to timelines, manage projects with minimal supervision, and work well in team environment
Ability to take action through intelligent risk taking, innovation and entrepreneurship
Preferred
Experience directly or indirectly leading teams with significant enterprise and/or top line revenue responsibility
Demonstrated ability to solve and lead others in solving complex analytical problems
Master's degree in business-related discipline
Benefits
Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
Company
American Airlines
American Airlines is an airline company that operates a diverse fleet of aircraft, including narrow-body and wide-body jets. It is a sub-organization of American Airlines.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1B2023-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2023-02-08Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2015-01-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Doug Parker
Chairman and former CEO at American Airlines
David Seymour
Chief Operating Officer
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