Director Network Strategy & Performance

Position Summary

Atlas Air is seeking a highly analytical, strategically minded leader to serve as a key partner to the Staff Vice President of Network Planning in driving the performance, economics, and evolution of the airline's global network.

Major Job Accountabilities

• Network Performance & Economics

• Analyze performance across customers, contracts, aircraft, fleets, routes, business units, and the overall network.
• Identify opportunities to improve aircraft utilization, service reliability, cost efficiency, profitability, and network productivity.
• Create executive-level analyses, business cases, and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Quantify trade-offs between revenue, utilization, reliability, cost, and operational complexity.

• Strategic Network Optimization

• Evaluate network design alternatives and recommend opportunities to improve schedule efficiency and asset productivity.
• Support fleet allocation, spare aircraft strategy, capacity planning, and long-term network development decisions.
• Assess customer and contract performance and recommend changes that align incentives and improve operational and economic outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to better align network design with evolving customer demand and market conditions.
• Drive analytical reviews of network assumptions, planning methodologies, and operating parameters.

• Integrated Airline Planning

• Partner across Commercial, Operations, Maintenance, Crew, Finance, and Technology organizations to ensure planning decisions reflect enterprise-wide objectives and constraints.
• Evaluate cross-functional trade-offs and facilitate decision-making among competing priorities.
• Develop frameworks that improve visibility into capacity, resource constraints, and operational risk.

• Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities and lead initiatives to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve planning processes.
• Develop future-state planning methodologies, governance processes, and performance management frameworks.
• Serve as a catalyst for data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement across planning functions.
• Support organizational transformation efforts designed to improve scalability, consistency, and operational performance.

• Technology & Analytics Partnership

• Act as the business owner and subject matter expert for network planning analytics and optimization initiatives.
• Partner with Data Science and Technology organizations to develop decision-support tools, optimization capabilities, and planning systems.
• Define business problems and analytical priorities that create measurable business value, translate operational and commercial requirements into business requirements for technology and analytics teams.
• Evaluate analytical outputs and ensure recommendations align with business objectives and operational realities.
• Drive adoption and effective use of new analytical tools and planning capabilities.

• Leadership & Influence

• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Challenge conventional thinking and champion innovative approaches to complex business problems.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Research, Economics, Aviation Management, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline.

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

• 8+ years of professional experience in strategy consulting, airline planning, transportation, logistics, operations, or other complex network-based industries.

• Demonstrated experience solving complex business problems using structured analytical approaches.

• Strong quantitative skills and experience working with large datasets to support business decisions.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.

• Prominent ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in dynamic and ambiguous environments.

• Proven ability to balance commercial, operational, and financial objectives.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in airline network planning, airline operations, aviation strategy, transportation, logistics, or asset-intensive industries.

• Experience supporting organizational transformation, process redesign, or technology-enabled business improvement initiatives.

• Familiarity with optimization, simulation, forecasting, and decision-support methodologies.

• Experience partnering with analytics, data science, or technology teams to develop business solutions.

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Pay Range

$160,000—$215,000 USD