Analyst/Sr Analyst, Operations Business Planning

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

• This position is within our Operations Strategic Planning & Performance department and focused on two key Corporate Strategic Objectives for our business: double down on operational excellence and passionately drive efficiencies. The team leads a variety of aspects of Operational Strategy and Reporting efforts at American Airlines. It serves as a resource for analytical needs throughout the Operational division, partnering with Sr leaders, front line leaders, Operational business units to get to root cause analysis as quickly and effectively as possible.

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.

• Mine, model, analyze and evaluate operational data to identify root cause factors impacting operational reliability

• Create, Review, and Communicate Operational Goals to the leaders Build Business Intelligence reports to guide leadership to improve the operation

• Proactively monitor and track operational performance metrics, and provide regular updates for senior leaders on monthly, quarterly, and annual cadences

• Provide competitive gap analysis to identify key performance drivers and opportunities to close the gap to our competition

• Provide periodic updates on drivers of operational issues and progress made with associated initiatives, to the operating departments and Sr. leaders

• Assist in hypothesis development for root cause analysis related to reliability performance

• Work collaboratively with various cross-functional teams including hubs, regions and functional group (maintenance, customer experience, cargo, etc.) leadership to develop and implement initiatives that improve operational performance

• Develop presentations and present findings with recommendations to the operating groups and senior management

• Interact with other departments including Network Planning, Maintenance, Crew, and IOC

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline including Operation Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, or Business Analytics with prior work experience

• 3 years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline including Operation Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, or Business Analytics

• 4 years of airline experience using data analysis and quantitative modeling techniques to answer business questions and to assess the added value of recommendations

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Motivated individual with strong passion for airline operations

• Ability to structure an analysis from scratch with minimal guidance

• Demonstrated experience in taking complex analysis and turning them into actionable insights

• Flexibility in adapting to new ideas, approaches and in taking feedback from business partners

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels within the organization as well as external contacts

• Ability to persevere through challenges, shows resourcefulness to get to end goal

• Demonstrated experience working under tight deadlines

• Adaptable, comfortable with unstructured work and occasional shifting priorities

• Works well as a team and knows when/how to ask for help

• Demonstrated experience in presenting findings to Sr. leaders with a variety of backgrounds

• Knowledge of data processing/manipulation languages such SQL, R, Python in large database environments

• Familiarity with the airline operations metrics and related operational procedures/processes

• Occasional Travel required (up to ~5% of the time)

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.

• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.

• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.

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