Job Description

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Accountable to identify, evaluate and develop new flying opportunities. Assess various route performance factors such as current demand, growth trend, market fare, competitive landscape, cost structure and commercial strength and provide management with thoroughly researched business cases supported by P&L forecasts on route and fleet decisions

• Review route network performance in order to detect profitability gaps and provide data-driven suggestions to influence various stakeholders from Revenue Management, Scheduling, Sales and/or Operations toward corrective actions

• Keep abreast of changing market dynamics from both demand and supply point-of-view, including; ethnic connections, labour movements, tourism trends and geopolitical swings, competitor movement, network updates, frequency changes and gauge adjustments.

• Prepare and represent AirAsia Group Network Planning participation in both internal and external stakeholder engagements. Internal engagements include; weekly commercial updates, monthly CEO P&L reviews, and annual budget updates. External engagements include; vendor management, conference attendance, market visit and airport collaboration

• Responsible for the management of Network Planning data and information collection, including the correct and timely dissemination of files such as the Group Route Rollout, Group Frequency Table and other ad-hoc requests from both internal and external stakeholders

Leadership

• Set clear and quantifiable goals for the team

• Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture

• Encourage and mentor junior staff to accelerate department competencies

• Thought leadership in developing more accurate methodologies to model network change effects

Personality and Characteristics

• You can simplify complex ideas into a winning narrative to propel stakeholder buy-in

• Your thirst to make sense of the world drives an innate curiosity for self-learning

• You have an adaptable personality that can thrive in a dynamic, ever-changing market

• You have a keen eye for detail and relentless drive for improvement

• You have the ability to deal and communicate with all levels of management including senior management and board of directors.  

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in aviation related fields, engineering, statistics, economics, or other equivalent qualification

• Masters in Air Transport Management/Aviation is desirable

Experience

• Airline / Aviation experience: 5+ years

• Network Planning, Revenue Management, Commercial/Sales: 2+ years

• Management Consulting experience is desirable 

Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge of airline network planning, scheduling, revenue management, sales & distribution along with a sound knowledge of airline economic and financial theory

• Experience with network planning/scheduling software and airline data sources such as PaxIS/MIDT, OAG/Innovata, Infare and ARMS

• Experience with MS Office in particular Excel and Powerpoint along with database tool knowledge such as SQL, Big Query or Tableau is a plus

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