Manager, Strategic Planning and Analysis

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• The Strategic Planning & Analysis group contributes to the airline’s long-term profitability by supporting Alliances, Loyalty, Network Planning, Revenue Management, Sales, and others through rigorous planning and forecasting of critical assets and resulting capacity and revenue; action-oriented analytics; and effective coordination and execution of cross-functional initiatives and partnerships.  This group includes Commercial Analysis, Revenue Analysis, Commercial Planning, Fleet & Infrastructure Analysis, and Network Innovation.
• This job is a member of the XX team within the Revenue Division. 

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced.  Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• 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
• Must be willing to travel for business when needed
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All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience/training
• 5 years work experience
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Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• 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
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Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Ability to manage a team and support critical business decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• 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 construct