Intermediate Analyst, Operational Analytics
Role Overview
The Intermediate Analyst, Operational Analytics supports reporting, analysis, and insights to improve operational performance across the airline.
Working under the Senior Manager, the role builds foundational analytics, maintains reporting, and contributes to performance investigations.
The role supports improvements to on-time performance, aircraft utilization, turnaround execution, and overall operational reliability.
Key Skills for This Role
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Work arrangement
- The position requires in-person collaboration up to five days a week; the arrangement may change based on business requirements.
Role overview
The Intermediate Analyst, Operational Analytics supports reporting, analysis, and insights to improve operational performance across the airline.
Working under the Senior Manager, the role builds foundational analytics, maintains reporting, and contributes to performance investigations.
The role supports improvements to on-time performance, aircraft utilization, turnaround execution, and overall operational reliability.
Reporting and performance analysis
- Build and maintain recurring reports, dashboards, and data extracts for operational performance tracking.
- Ensure data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness, and support enhancements to reporting tools and processes.
- Analyze delays, turnaround times, utilization, and other operational metrics; identify trends and variances for escalation.
- Support root cause analysis by gathering data, performing initial analysis, and contributing to problem-solving discussions.
- Assist in identifying potential drivers of operational performance issues.
Strategic and stakeholder support
- Assist with ad hoc strategic analysis, data modeling, and scenario evaluation for operational and strategic initiatives.
- Execute defined analytical tasks with guidance from senior team members.
- Respond to operational stakeholders' requests for data and intermediate-to-advanced insights.
- Communicate findings clearly and accurately, with guidance as needed.
Continuous improvement
- Seek opportunities to improve analytical methods, reporting tools, and data processes.
- Stay current with data analysis and visualization best practices and contribute to an insight-driven team culture.
Experience and qualifications
- 6+ years of program or project management experience, preferably in analytics, guest experience, operations, or a service-oriented industry.
- Intermediate skills in Excel, Power BI, and SQL; Power Automate or Tableau experience is an asset.
- Track record of cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple departments and effective collaboration across teams.
- Experience in fast-paced, matrixed environments with competing priorities and diverse stakeholders.
- Strong change management and transformation skills, including guiding adoption and process improvement.
- Familiarity with guest experience strategies, service design, or airline operations is a strong asset.
- Knowledge and proficiency in journey mapping and guest experience mapping tools.
- Strategic and operational thinking, balancing long-term planning with short-term execution.
- Familiarity with aviation regulatory environments is an asset.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making abilities; integrity and commitment to quality, pragmatic results.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package, travel privileges for the employee and family from the start date, and flexible savings and benefit programs.
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