Analyst/Senior Analyst, Airports Execution and Change Management

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)   
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 70452 

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

• Focus on ensuring change initiatives meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage.
• Specialize on the people side of change, including changes to business process, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures.
• Deliver and execute change management strategies that maximize team member adoption and minimize resistance.
• Manage system wide projects through tracking and reporting to senior airport leaders throughout the organization.
• The team is responsible for executive level content support, meeting facilitation, airport alignment to company’s goals, building project plans and monitoring execution
• The role is part of the Airports Operations and Delivery team within the Airport and Partner Planning and Analysis group.

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.

• Develop and implement change management strategies and programs for a broad range of initiatives.
• Apply and adapt a structured methodology to execute change management initiatives and track progress for senior leaders
• Partner with Airport and Customer Experience solutions teams to ensure change management activities are integrated into each project plan
• Provide direct support to all levels (leaders, Change Champions, and staff) and create and maintain lines of communication between business, stakeholders, and other change management groups to prepare them for the transition through change impacts, walkthroughs, tool demos, etc.
• Conduct and/or participate in project meetings, provide strategic and analytical support, and manage project progress issues, and risk
• Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders
• Identify, analyze, and prepare risk mitigation tactics
• Help define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience/training
• 3+ years of professional experience leading large scale projects in the airline industry or relevant experience
• 3+ years of airport operations leadership experience 

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Change management / project management certification or designation desired
• Prior experience leading organizational change management 

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal 
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
• Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle
• Strong interpersonal skills including leadership, collaboration, consensus-building, and cultural awareness

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer: 

• 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.
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