Principal, Supply Chain Transformation

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 Principal, Supply Chain Transformation—part of the Technical Operations Division—serves as a key planning subject matter expert and i strategic advisor for major Supply Chain Transformation initiatives. This role provides strategic recommendations, challenges assumptions, validates solution designs, and helps ensure new planning capabilities, processes, and technologies deliver measurable improvements in material availability, inventory performance, productivity, cost, and long-term value. Operating with broad cross-functional influence, this position partners closely with Supply Chain, Operations, Technology, Finance, Procurement, and Program leaders to ensure transformational changes are practical, adopted, and sustained.

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.

•    Serve as the organization's subject matter expert in supply chain planning, inventory optimization, forecasting, and planning process design.
•    Act as an internal consultant to Supply Chain leadership, providing strategic recommendations and challenging assumptions to ensure decisions are grounded in data, operational realities, and industry best practices.
•    Challenge current and future-state business processes, systems, requirements, and solution designs to ensure best-in-class planning capabilities are delivered.
•    Lead the design, evaluation, and continuous improvement of planning processes, operating models, and decision-support capabilities.
•    Analyze operational and financial data to identify opportunities to improve material availability, increase productivity, reduce inventory investment, and lower operating costs.
•    Partner with business, technology, and operational teams to translate complex challenges into practical, scalable solutions and support transformation initiatives.
•    Facilitate stakeholder alignment, communication, and engagement to support adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
•    Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights, recommendations, and progress updates on transformation outcomes.
•    Champion a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and data‑driven decision‑making.

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, Analytics, Industrial Engineering, Aviation, or a related field.
• 5 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, inventory management, transformation, operational excellence, consulting, analytics, finance, or program management

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

•    Master’s degree  in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Finance, Industrial Engineering, Analytics, Operations Research, or a related field.
•    Experience in aviation, aerospace, or other highly regulated industries.
•    Background in supply chain modernization, digital transformation, or operating model design.    
•    Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement methodologies.
•    Experience with inventory optimization, forecasting, demand planning, service parts planning, or supply chain planning systems.
•    Experience with SQL, Databricks, Power BI, Excel, or other analytical and reporting tools.

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

•    Deep understanding of supply chain planning, inventory management, forecasting, inventory optimization, and operational planning principles.
•    Strategic thinking and ente