Strategic Planning & Performance Manager

Piedmont Airlines, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental benefits

401(k)

Paid training

Vacation

Job summary

Piedmont Airlines, Inc. is seeking a motivated Manager, Business & Strategic Planning to lead financial and operational analysis, cost performance, and productivity initiatives.

You will develop labor models, scenarios, and business cases to enable strategic decisions. The role partners with Finance, Operations, and other leaders, driving forecasting, budgeting, and KPI reporting, with dashboards and executive-level presentations to communicate performance and opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or another relevant field.
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in financial planning and analysis, business planning, operational finance, strategy, data analytics, or a related field.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial, operational, and productivity analysis to identify trends, performance gaps, cost drivers, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Partner withFinance, Operations, and functional leaders to develop and execute business and strategic planning initiatives aligned with organizational priorities.
• Develop and maintain labor and productivity models that provide insight into staffing requirements, operational performance, and cost efficiency.
• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning by providing analysis of productivity, labor, cost drivers, and strategic initiatives.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), performance scorecards, and management reporting to measure productivity, efficiency, financial performance, and progress against organizational objectives.
• Lead the development of dashboards and executive-level presentations that clearly communicate business performance, trends, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Establish financial and operational baselines, expected benefits, implementation milestones, and success measures for productivity and strategic initiatives.
• Track initiatives from business case through implementation and benefits realization, identifying gaps between projected and actual results and recommending corrective actions when necessary.
• Validate realized cost savings, cost avoidance, productivity improvements, and other business benefits in partnership with FP&A, Accounting, Operations, and other stakeholders.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial modeling

Labor modeling

Analytics

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Excel proficiency

BI dashboards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business

5 years of related work experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Job description

Piedmont Airlines, Inc. is seeking a motivated Manager, Business & Strategic Planning to lead financial and operational analysis, cost performance, and productivity initiatives.

You will develop labor models, scenarios, and business cases to enable strategic decisions. The role partners with Finance, Operations, and other leaders, driving forecasting, budgeting, and KPI reporting, with dashboards and executive-level presentations to communicate performance and opportunities.