AddressLooking for a challenge in one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisations?
At IAG Cargo, we’re in the business of moving things. From antibiotics and rhinoceroses to gold bullion, avocados, and everything in between, whatever people need, wherever they are, IAG Cargo is there to bring them the necessary and niche.
As the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group, you’ll work across the globally recognised brands of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling.
As well as helping to keep the world’s economies turning, we believe in building a great place for our colleagues to work. Our people are determined, curious, collaborative and take huge pride in everything they do.
The role:
Accountable for the delivery of IAG Cargo’s revenue by maximising the contribution on each flight departure for a set of routes within IAG Cargo’s global Network portfolio. You will determine and drive route strategies, from your own initiative and through working across various departments, to optimise contribution and achieve various commercial and route targets.
The following will be key to your success –
- Implementation of strategies for your Route Group through the life cycle of definition, deployment, adjustments, and delivery.
- Flight capacity management, from the basics of flight setup to the optimisation of capacity through management and optimisation of product and customer allocations and hurdle management.
- Working as a go to point of contact for other Inventory Optimisation Analysts, you will take a lead on projects, ownership around initiatives and actions and focus on the most commercial important routes and projects.
What you’ll do:
- Deliver accurate flight setups through ensuring baggage, payloads and overbooking forecasts deliver accurate results and capacity utilisation is high relating to product and customer performance,
- Regular and ad-hoc analysis exploiting revenue management systems and tools to optimise contribution and forecast performance.
- Monitor competitor activity and market share and ensure response to competition.
- Ensuring relevant demand forecasts are delivering the required output to drive commercial optimisation and making the required adjustments if not.
- Work with Sales and Revenue Management colleagues on appropriate pricing levels (tariff and ad hoc) to access capacity to deliver the best mix of product, origin, destination and customer on all routes to optimise IAG returns
- Working closely with commercial functions (Sales, Marketing, Network etc.) to identify and drive new commercial initiatives,
- Understanding our unique operational constraints and customer expectations, adapting strategies to ensure we are work within them and balance objectives.
- Leads on Revenue Management projects, linked to Transformation or Continuous Improvement
- Actively coach and support new team members to support their development and understanding of IAGC Cargo and Revenue Management.
- Actively seek continuous feedback and proactively engage in a Personal Development Plan, looking to grow your career withing IAGC.
What you’ll bring to IAG Cargo:
- Analytical; robust analysis is at the heart of all Revenue Management decisions
- Self-starter; able to work on own initiative, make decisions and implement
- Logical mind-set; consider trade-offs to meet high level Financial Plan targets and understand the impact on individual results.
- Effective communicator; express complex data clearly, verbally and written
- Team player; ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
- Experience of working with direct data sources (SQL, Tableau) to create reporting.
- Strong influencing skills, supported by building strong relationships built on fair decision making.
Your experience:
- Experience of working and excelling in Revenue Management
- Evidence of strong analytical capability
- Experience of leading continuous improvement and / or Transformational projects through to delivery and project closure.
- Developing and deploying commercial strategies with the ability to evidence how strategies have performed and been adapted.
- Proven experience of thinking outside of the box and developing creative solutions to complex problems.
What we offer:
Wherever you work within IAG Cargo, you’ll play a part in connecting people and countries and join a diverse and inclusive business that’s making a difference to the future of aviation.
Colleagues working for IAG Cargo:
- Benefit from attractive and competitive rewards aligned to the local market and role.
- From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
- Work with diverse colleagues in a business that truly values inclusion and diversity.
- Are valued for their ideas and opinions.
- Benefit from opportunities for development and progression.
- Are able to support communities across the world, and close to home.
- Work in an environment in which safety and wellbeing are paramount.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Our recruitment procedures positively support our equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda.
All candidates are considered strictly on their merits in relation to the criteria for the role, treated fairly and consistently and have their individual needs responded to throughout the process.
Please advise us if you require any reasonable adjustments to take part in the recruitment process so we’re able to remove any barriers that may present themselves.
To apply for the position of Senior Inventory Optimisation Analyst, please use the ‘apply now’ function.
