Analyst/Sr Analyst, IOC Strategic Alignment

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

• You'll have the exciting opportunity to be a part of a newly formed team responsible for ensuring alignment and execution on operational priorities by identifying and framing issues, driving decisions and monitoring implementation of solutions.
• The role is a part of the IOC Strategic Alignment team within our Integrated Operations Center group.
  
  

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.

• Synthesize business problems, identify strategic options, define outcomes, and gain consensus among senior leadership on key IOC initiatives
• Connect the vision with the tangible pieces that enable its fulfillment
• Identify current and future opportunities, compiling and presenting cross-functional impacts, aligning and prioritizing with business owners, finance, and IT counterparts, and monitors the status outcomes
• Enable teams and leaders to connect the dots between the various initiatives within a larger plan
• Be the link between business and IT teams across organizations to bring about consistency and synergies on technology in-use and in development
• Ensure clarity of business requirements from stakeholders to enable proper planning and design of new initiatives
• Monitor and provide updates to senior leadership
• Gather information from internal and external sources, using various research methods
• Project manage transformational initiatives, building detailed project plans, facilitating meetings and following up with key stakeholders
• Create KPIs and project dashboards to monitor progress
• Provide analytical support by reviewing data, drawing insights and presenting findings
• Develop and deliver presentations to leaders and working groups
• Manage ad hoc projects as required – ranging from small requests to multi-year projects
• Collaborate with internal customers to better understand their needs and be able to communicate them to other
  
  

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years of experience in airline, consulting, or equivalent industries
  
  

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Graduate degree
• Prior consulting experience
  
  

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and written and verbal communication skills including the ability to collaborate with all levels of management
• Strategic thinker who considers the broader corporate implications of ideas
• Ability to problem solve and effectively deal with ambiguity
• Self-starter who solicits input from several sources
• Ability to prioritize and navigate projects among competing priorities, both within and outside one's own organization
• Effective collaborator both across and outside the organization at all levels
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint and Word
  
  

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.