Sr Project Manager, Baggage Planning and Strategy

American Airlines; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel perks

Health benefits

Wellness programs

401(k) program

Additional benefits

Job summary

American Airlines seeks a Senior Program Manager to drive long-term strategy initiatives within Airports. You will engage senior leaders and field operations to shape initiatives that enhance the experience for customers and team members worldwide.

In this role, you will synthesize complex business problems, coordinate cross-functional projects, and ensure clear business requirements to enable effective planning and execution. A strong data-driven mindset and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience/training.
• 3+ years of professional experience in the airline industry.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize business problems for senior leaders, identify strategic options, define outcomes and gain consensus among leaders.
• Represent airport operations in planning and implementation of a wide range of projects that lead to better bag performance.
• Coordinate initiatives within the team and across various departments to ensure efficiency and consistency of execution through the promotion of best practices.
• Ensure clarity of business requirements from stakeholders to enable proper planning and design of new initiatives.
• Participate in project meetings, provide strategic and analytical support, and manage project progress, issues, and risks.
• Partner with the larger Airports Excellence organization to ensure consistency and efficient use of resources across the organization.
• Provide strategic thought leadership in support of airport operation.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder mgmt

Data-driven decisions

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Consensus-building

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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

• Play a key role in leading a variety of long term strategy initiatives within Airports. This will include a high level of engagement with internal stakeholders and field operations to deliver initiatives that support our customers and team members worldwide.
• This role will provide executive level content support, meeting facilitation, airport alignment to company’s goals, providing expertise and resource to support key initiatives, identifying and framing issues, driving decisions, and building project plans and monitoring execution.
• The role is a part of the Baggage team within our Airports Excellence 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 for senior leaders, identify strategic options, define outcomes and gain consensus among leaders
• Represent airport operations in planning and implementation of a wide range of projects that lead to better bag performance
• Coordinate initiatives within the team and across various departments to ensure efficiency and consistency of execution through the promotion of best practices
• Ensure clarity of business requirements from stakeholders to enable proper planning and design of new initiatives
• Participate in project meetings, provides strategic and analytical support, and manages project progress, issues, and risks
• Partner with the larger Airports Excellence organization to ensure consistency and efficient use of resources across the organization
• Provides strategic thought leadership in support of airport operation

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience/training
• 3+ years of professional experience in the airline industry

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• N/A

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Previous project management experience with ability to lead, organize and prioritize projects
• Collaborative with proven ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Effective decision-making based on a combination of data-driven analysis and strategic consideration
• Attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills including leadership, collaboration, consensus-building, and cultural awareness
• Proven ability to develop strong relationships and work effectively across groups
• Ability to build strong consensus and achieve results through other
• Proven collaboration successes across a wide variety of projects
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

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+ Team Member 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.