Air Distribution Pricing Senior Specialist

Job Title

Air Distribution Pricing Senior Specialist

Summary

In this role, you collaborate during the Airline Distribution Gross Revenue line during planning processes (Budget, Forecast, LTP), responsible for providing insight into the unit booking fee evolution.  

You will be the main Finance responsible for strategy initiatives such as the Airline Distribution Barometer, REAPS, LCC content acquisition, etc.
Assure that internal customers have the necessary tools and advice on financial strategies to make sound decisions that help them over-achieve their targets.
The scope of the responsibility is worldwide and includes reporting to Directors and Heads of Sales and Strategy.

Key Responsibilities

PRICING AND PLANNING PROCESSES

Actively collaborate on the Pricing & Planning Finance processes. Provide financial and commercial consulting to pricing-related initiatives (pre-Budget). Participate in modelling and provide financial and commercial consulting to Budget, Forecast and LTP processes. 

Main responsibilities include:

• Ownership of the Airline Distribution Barometer, including financial modelling, risk assessment, discussion of mitigation strategies and presentation to other stakeholders and management. 

• Being responsible for the REAPS booking fee insight and modelling within the Finance organization. Output will be used by all the central and local organizations worldwide to perform travel sellers business cases.

• Collaboration during the GDA Pricing modelling, to estimate the company's Air Distribution Gross Revenue, which is the key driver for the Distribution annual pricing decision-making. 

• Collaboration during the Budget, forecast, LTP and other planning processes, including performing complex modelling, providing insight into the industry's volume evolution using external sources (IATA, T2RL, airlines and manufacturers) and own analysis, assessing alternative distribution models that will come in the LTP scope (3 years term) and how to best incorporate that meaningful insight into the complex models with minimal disruption to timelines and the rest of teams.

• Support in the coordination of the departments involved so that an accurate, efficient and successful Planning process can take place

TRAVEL DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Responsible for financial assessment of strategic initiatives within Distribution area, including exploration of new business opportunities and the financial and risk evaluation on new business models and Alternative Content Sourcing

Main responsibilities include:

• Lead financial modeling and opportunity sizing

• Collaborate risk assessment and mitigation strategy proposal

• Building high quality presentations and visuals and presenting findings to management, including Directors and Heads of Sales and Strategy.

• Entry point for CFI, other Finance departments or other BUs (Altea, CST, LEG) on Distribution strategic initiatives

The ideal candidate

• 2 to 5 yrs work experience in an analytical role, preferably in consulting

• A strong business understanding of the travel sector

• A strong interest in technology and travel

• Financial / project valuation knowledge

• Excellent MS Office knowledge (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)

• Knowledge of Business intelligence tools is a plus (Power BI, Allstats, Qlik, AFO)

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.