Sr Analyst, Operations Planning

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Analyze, plan, and forecast flight block times and evaluate strategies balancing reliability with operating costs.
• Evaluate future network schedule designs and coordinate implementation with network planning, crew planning, and operations.
• Assess the effects of schedule changes, hub changes, construction, and other initiatives on operations.
• Collaborate with airport operations, TechOps, the Integrated Operations Center, crew teams, airport leaders, and Network Planning on future schedules.
• Validate operational concerns, maintain block-time performance parameters, and identify airport sequencing and resource-use improvements.
• Analyze operational data to find reliability root causes; present findings and recommendations and report on trends and anomalies.
• Analyze competitors’ schedules, recommend corrective action, and address high-priority performance issues.
• Build schedule dashboards and reports, maintain hub schedule standards, monitor trends, and identify optimization opportunities.
• Provide analytical support to functional owners and respond to operational data and analysis requests.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Applied Math, Statistics, or a related field.
• At least one year of airline or other relevant experience.
• Experience using data analysis to answer business questions and assess recommendation value.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience with data retrieval languages such as SQL, SparkSQL, MySQL, or NoSQL.
• Experience with reporting and data visualization tools and techniques such as Tableau or Power BI.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Experience with one or more programming languages, such as R or Python.
• Experience with cloud or distributed computing, such as Databricks, Spark, or AWS.

Skills and working style

• Strong oral and written communication, collaboration, persuasion, and ability to influence others.
• Ability to analyze detailed information, work independently and as part of a team, handle multiple assignments, meet deadlines, and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Business acumen and technical learning and innovation skills.