Supervisor Network Planning

Qualifications, Skills, and Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration or a related field.
  
• 7 years minimum commercial Airline experience in a similar position is a must.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Business mindset and ability to synthesize information into recommendations.
  
• Good oral and written presentations skills.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Good oral and written presentations skills.
  
• Negotiation skills.
  

• Create schedules that effectively utilizes aircraft resources.
  
• Improve aircraft and fleet utilization.
  
• Implement successful scheduling strategies.
  
• Review passenger traffic demand, flight schedule data and optimization tools
  
• Building relationships with airports and third parties (regions, tourism bodies, etc.).
  
• Assessing new markets based on strategic fit, financial potential, growth opportunity, risks, and possible entry points.
  
• Determining viable new routes and bases to add to the network.
  
• Providing financial forecasts for potential new routes and bases.
  
• Building and maintaining financial evaluation tools as required.
  
• Working with the revenue management team to determine amendments to existing routes, frequencies, and airports.
  
• Assessing competition in terms of strategic plans, seasonal developments in capacity and fares, analysing strengths/weaknesses and recommending actions based on the risks and opportunities.
  
• Assessing and interpreting the market, economic and industry trends and the impact on route choice.
  
• Managing the base mix cost to ensure it does not exceed budgeted costs.
  

Schedule responsibilities:

• Developing schedules which utilize crew manpower and aircraft efficiently and effectively.
  
• Loading and managing flight capacity in the scheduling and flight operation systems.
  
• Building and managing relationships with slot co-coordinators throughout Europe.
  
• Securing and maintaining airport slots for future schedules.
  
• Aligning and managing the communication and approval process between the scheduling and operational departments.
  
• Coordinating data analysis with revenue management to improve revenue generation of different schedule scenarios.
  
• Developing robust schedule tools to improve efficiency.
  
• Managing IT system development projects related to scheduling, network & slot management.
  

Regulatory responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining relationships with applicable CAA’s.
  
• Monitoring and negotiating bilateral agreements in relevant markets.
  
• Securing route permits in a timely manner.