What you’ll do:

• Lead a large team with up to 8 direct and 60 indirect reports to create a positive working environment and team culture.
• Ensure detailed and accurate operability plans across your area are implemented by driving the team in planning and delivering necessary resources from 5 years in advance until the day before operation.
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to identify assumptions, identify efficiency-saving opportunities, and ensure operability numbers are met on the resource plans.
• Highlight risks and opportunities in both the long and short-term resource outlook, and mitigate risks where possible.
• Communicate the operational plan, risks, and mitigations to senior collaborators to advise upstream planning decisions.
• Own the delivery of resource plans for your areas, balancing network schedule, financial targets, operational requirements, training needs, and other business priorities which directly influence operational performance.
• Manage and lead a variety of transformation initiatives and change projects across the organisation.
• Support the team with modelling and analysis, including root-cause analysis and standard processes.
• Work closely with product development teams to gather requirements, develop processes, and test new tools.
• Collaborate with finance, recruitment, learning & development, product development, industrial relations, line area leadership, network, and the wider operations team.

Your experience:

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level (or hold an equivalent qualification or experience), have experience in modelling and analytics (Excel essential), strong stakeholder management skills, significant team management experience, and project management skills. They should ideally have experience of using tableau (or similar BI reporting tool), be highly IT literate and knowledge of product development and continuous improvement. Experience in management consulting, operations management and / or aviation is a plus.