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• This job is a member of the Strategic Planning and Analysis team within the Revenue Management Division, which is responsible for leading a team that support the commercial planning for the AAdvantage, Cobrand and Airline Partnerships organizations.

• 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
• Leads a team of analysts responsible for production and analysis of multiple enterprise forecasts, including annual budgets, quarterly five-year-plan high-level forecasts
• Drives forward top priority commercial initiatives that span across the company and our partner airlines, bringing alignment around commercial strategies, maintaining clear communication across teams, and ensuring cross-functional actions are completed
• Forecasting and budgeting cobrand partnership cashflows
• Analyzing cobrand performance and partnering with the AAdvantage organization to size initiatives
• Supporting the development of new partners
• Negotiating new concepts, initiatives or unresolved matters
• Ad hoc analysis of other aspects of Commercial Partnerships
• Drafting and reviewing contracts with internal and external counsel
• Maintaining a working relationship with AA’s Joint Business and Partners: British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Finnair, Japan Airlines, Qantas Airways, Alaska Airlines, Qatar
• Calculating transfer payments and related settlements between the Joint Business and other partners
• Presenting and explaining financial settlements and complex Alliance Share Agreement concepts to internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organizations
• Regular interaction with many other AA departments, including: Network Planning, AAdvantage, Revenue Management, Accounting, Legal, Sales and Finance
• Ensures continuous training and provides development opportunities for the analyst pool

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 data sets and communicate clearly and persuasively with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to manage a team and support critical business decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Ability to build collaborative relationships with and consensus amongst multiple stakeholders with varying points of view
• Ability to solve and to lead others in solving complex analytical problems
• Demonstrated ability to take a project from conceptualization through implementation
• Ability to thrive in an unstructured role, work through ambiguous problems and be resilient in the face of criticism and constructive feedback
• Action-oriented, data & results-driven, customer-focused leader with a natural aptitude for seeking opportunities that transform existing business models
• Ability to take action through intelligent risk taking, innovation and entrepreneurship
• Display key attributes required by American Airlines: Personal integrity, respectful of others and their opinions, inclusive, team oriented, adaptable, positive and optimistic

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

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.