About the position
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! Responsible for developing and leading a team whose collective skills comprise business knowledge, data analysis, and story-telling capabilities. Responsible for synthesizing those skills across the team to create a data-driven voice to strategic topics, resulting in thought-pieces that glean new insights into American's large and complex line maintenance footprint and the strategic levers that underpin that network.
Responsibilities
- Assimilates and maintains a team of analysts with complementary skill-sets across the following competencies: airline knowledge (operations and commercial), advanced analytics, business intelligence and visualization, story-telling
- Creates blueprints for, and manages the development of, consultant-like expertise presentation of findings, telling technical stories to non-technical and/or executive audiences
- Takes high-level problem statements and abstract hypotheses and sets project direction for the key elements: the body of analysis, extraction of insights, and articulation of critical findings and takeaways that ultimately answer questions and improve conviction
- Picking up on signals and feedback from operational constituents, 'connect the dots' into a cohesive, logical and compelling presentations to allow the airline to contemplate newfound ways of planning the airline, all with the underlying goal of reducing aircraft out of service frequency and/or duration
- Guides the development and application of new ways of approaching data analysis in various Maintenance Capacity Planning and Utilization contexts
- Manages analytical efforts to support ad-hoc initiatives tied to TechOps' strategic objectives
- Builds close working relationships across the various TechOps and Airline Planning functions with whom the position will collaborate
- Demonstrate the leadership attributes with a bias toward feedback and accountability. Develop those within the leader's span of care to grow into taking the next step of their careers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field and/or equivalent experience/training
- 5 years job related experience
- Successful track record in an analytical environment
Nice-to-haves
- 5 years' experience in airline planning, operations, analysis or professional services (advisory/management consulting)
- Knowledge of American Airlines' operational and/or network planning data sets
- Experience with Mosaic data warehouse and tools including Tableau, SQL
Benefits
- Travel Perks: You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
- Health Benefits: Access to health, dental, prescription and vision benefits from day one.
- Wellness Programs: Programs providing tools, resources and support for personal well-being.
- 401(k) Program: Available upon hire with employer contributions after one year.
- Additional Benefits: Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance, and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
