Analytics Specialist, Airport Planning Integration

Delta’s Integrated Operations Planning team aligns strategic plans across operations, develops key operational inputs to the airline schedule, and designs cross-divisional solutions to achieve operational goals. The Analytics Specialist, Airport Planning Integration, supports this work by organizing and analyzing planning data to enable rapid decision-making. This role partners closely with leaders and business partners to understand operational processes, address emerging challenges, and develop data-driven solutions that improve operational performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop new schedule KPIs and create automated reporting in support of executive-level future planning reviews
• Produce robust documentation and training materials to assist other teams in interpreting and analyzing future schedules
• Be the central owner of schedule data for operations teams, partnering with Network Planning to maintain consistent and accurate data flows, as well as developing new data sources and structures
• Develop a thorough understanding of the schedule development process, including timelines and various schedule constraints
• Partner with Network planning teams to create schedule feedback loops that resolve conflicts and provide feasible solutions in future schedules
• Directly create and work with team members on written materials that distill findings and insights for a variety of audiences
• Sustain a culture of independence and curiosity, driving cross-divisional decision making with little direction and supporting team members to look for problems to solve and then come up with innovative ideas
• Identify and resolve or escalate, as appropriate, potential roadblocks within projects
• Enjoy working in a high-profile environment with fluid priorities, ambiguity and extremely aggressive timelines
• Be intellectually curious, ask questions, and speak up when they have an idea
• Have a team first attitude, with the success of our team and business partners as their top priority
• Distill information and synthesize complex problems and processes to form a cohesive story for leaders across the organization
• Present findings to Operations Analytics leaders