Sr Manager, Strategic Planning and Analysis

Sr Manager, Strategic Planning and Analysis

Location
: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)
Cities
:
Fort Worth - TX

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.

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• This job is a member of the Sales Programs Team within the Revenue Management Division.

• Responsible for leading a team to drive significant top line revenue improvements for American Airlines, being a thoughtful leader, and active participant as a member of the RM leadership team.

• Provide strategic leadership, collaborative coordination, and creative problem solving to mentor and manage a successful team while ensuring continuous training and providing development opportunities for analysts with intellectual curiosity and a passion for the business
• Create and foster a relentless focus by identifying new revenue opportunities, leveraging available tools, processes, best practices, and reporting
• Lead design, delivery and execution of agency deals to help achieve revenue and growth optimization for the indirect channel
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop and enhance tools and processes, define detailed business requirements, and lead projects from a business-user perspective
• Lead agency strategy, optimize performance and solve complex problems through quantitative analysis and analytical models, using research, statistics, machine learning, and forecasting techniques
• Analyze the performance of contracts, evaluate new opportunities and craft creative solutions that drive continuous improvement from American Airlines’ Indirect partners
• Lead and collaborate on projects with other departments such as Network Planning, Sales, Finance, Customer Experience, Commercial Planning and Analysis, as well as external stakeholders.
• Build team culture focused on customer-centric learning, experimentation, and data-led decisions to connect actions with current/future program capabilities, performance, and desired incremental behavior
• Utilize statistical analysis, simulations, predictive modeling, or other analytical methods to analyze data and develop practical solutions to business problems.
• Leverage customer and market insights to develop hypothesis and utilize A/B tests to improve revenue outcomes
• Collaborate across organizations to define product/program requirements, build consensus and execute with accountability through change management best practices, including via internal and external stakeholders from concept to launch

Minimum Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with significant coursework or experience in a quantitative discipline (economics, mathematics, engineering, finance, operations research, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master’s degree in business-related discipline
• Experience directly or indirectly leading teams with significant enterprise and/or top line revenue responsibility
• Demonstrated ability to solve and lead others in solving complex analytical problems
• Experience leading cross-functional, inter-departmental projects
• Prior experience in Revenue Management, Finance, Network Planning or Sales Planning preferred

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Proven ability to synthesize complex technical information across large…