Senior Inventory Planning Analyst

About PSA

Let your career take off with PSA Airlines. PSA Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines, offers unparalleled opportunities for growth and professional development. We value teamwork and inclusivity and strive to create a safe, respectful, and happy work environment for our more than 5,500 team members. At PSA we are defining the standard in regional aviation by focusing on The PSA Standard - our foundation for operation. Through our six Winning Behaviors - safe and caring, customer-centric and quality-focused, dependable and ethical, fact-based, focused and flexible, on-time, and cost-conscious our team members are showing up every day for our customers and each other. Join our team to enjoy comprehensive benefits, including travel privileges on the American Airlines global network, so you can explore new destinations and create unforgettable memories with family and friends.

Position Summary

Serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert for complex inventory planning and optimization initiatives supporting PSA Airlines' fleet and operational growth. Leads advanced data analysis to determine purchase needs and allocations, pilots' new methodologies, and make high-impact inventory decisions. Improves the company performance, efficient operations, and customer satisfaction by ensuring that needed maintenance activities are supported.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads complex inventory demand analysis utilizing multiple inputs including planned maintenance, fleet strategy, base activity, RONs, reliability trends, and operational risk to establish and optimize inventory min/max levels across all stocking locations.
• Acts as a resource and mentor to Inventory Planning Analysts, sharing best practices, analytical techniques, and institutional knowledge.
• Owns ongoing review and optimization of inventory policies to balance material availability, service level performance, and total cost, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Serves as a senior contributor and subject matter expert within cross-functional teams for sparing strategies and inventory optimization initiatives.
• Provides strategic direction and oversight for inter-base inventory transfers, aligning material positioning with near-term maintenance needs and long-term network planning.
• Leads analysis and validation efforts for vendor support programs, ensuring contractual compliance, inventory sufficiency, and scalability as operations and fleets evolve.
• Partners with Procurement, Maintenance Planning, Technical Services, Engineering, and Stores leadership to plan and execute material strategies for fleet campaigns, service bulletins, and airworthiness directives.
• Develops, maintains, and documents sophisticated sparing and provisioning models to support base openings, fleet introductions, and network changes.
• Provides data-driven justification and recommendations for initial provisioning, re-provisioning, and long-term inventory investment decisions.
• Oversees inventory validation activities for vendor-owned and consigned material to ensure accuracy, visibility, and alignment with operational requirements.
• Creates and prioritizes transfer requests for Material Services and actively monitors execution, resolving issues related to timing, shortages, or competing maintenance needs.
• Maintains comprehensive documentation and audit trails supporting inventory decisions, policy changes, and allocation adjustments.
• Leads the development, testing, and implementation of new inventory planning methodologies, analytical models, and optimization approaches to improve service levels, reduce risk, and optimize total inventory investment; establishes best practices and standards for broader team adoption.
• Serves as the lead analyst for inventory decisions involving the highest financial exposure, operational risk, or fleet-wide impact, exercising independent judgment within established governance to balance material availability, reliability outcomes, and cost.
• Responsible for the Company's Security and Safety Management System (SMS) and associated Safety Risk Management and Safety Assurance outputs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience in aviation inventory planning, supply chain, or maintenance support; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience with complex demand analysis, inventory optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel; experience with analytics or BI tools preferred.
• Ability to speak, read, and write English.
• If hired, must be able to demonstrate authorization to work in the U.S.

Preferred:

• Strong knowledge of airline maintenance planning, provisioning, and material support processes.
• Proficiency with inventory management systems, ERP platforms, and data visualization or analytics tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions through data-driven analysis and executive-level communication.
• Familiarity with IATA inventory best practices and airline reliability concepts.

Additional Information

Supervisory Responsibility: This is not a supervisory position.

Delegation: In absence, responsibilities delegated to Manager of Inventory Planning.

Authorities: None

Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, telephones, photocopiers, facsimile machines and filing cabinets.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. This is largely a sedentary role; however, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb up and down stairs; lift weight up to 25 lbs; use hands to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

AAP/EEO Statement: PSA Airlines is an equal opportunity employer; qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Security Clearance: All employees are required to pass the fingerprint-based criminal history records check (CHRC) per 49CFR1542.209 as well as a pre-employment drug screen.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designated to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.