American Airlines

Director, Hub Planning and Administration

American Airlines$120K — $180K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7 years of leadership experience managing teams and individual contributors
  • 7 years of operational and financial experience with a focus on budget development
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred
  • Knowledge of airline industry operations and American Airlines policies
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to engage teams across functions

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams managing staffing, payroll, audits, and budgeting for the hub
  • Motivate and develop team members through coaching and talent planning
  • Cultivate collaborative relationships with internal teams and union leaders
  • Coordinate daily hub activities and liaise with regional partner carriers
  • Monitor station metrics to enhance hub goal attainment

Benefits

  • Travel perks for you and your family on a vast network of flights
  • Comprehensive health benefits available from day one
  • Robust wellness programs to support employee well-being
  • 401(k) plan with employer contributions after one year
  • Variety of additional perks like pet insurance and discounts on travel-related services
Full Job Description
Location: DFW Intl Apt (DFW-TRML)
Cities: Dallas - TX
Requisition ID: 80203

Job Description

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you'll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

The Director, Hub Administration leads the administration team responsible for providing operational planning, support, and administration across the hub. The incumbent oversees and is accountable for overall resource management and planning, including but not limited to capital and op-ex forecasting, staffing, payroll, hiring, and other administrative functions.

This leader is required to be a key local champion of American's Operational priorities, ensuring that all hub employees are aligned toward achievement of desired outcomes. This strategic leader will build and maintain strong partnerships with Customer Operations, Customer Care, and the Control Center. This position will also interface and collaborate with other teams at the hub, such as Aircraft Maintenance, Flight, and Inflight, along with our business partners who support the operation, the broader aviation community, and stakeholders. This is an operational position that will require some work on weekends, nights, and holidays.

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
  • Leads the teams responsible for staffing, payroll, audits, accounting, capital planning, local corporate real estate, hiring, and all other administrative areas related to the hub
  • Demonstrates visible leadership through the motivation, coaching, development, and growth of the team in their span of care, including talent and succession planning
  • Cultivates collaborative relationships across all work groups and teams across the American Airlines system, including the ability to establish and maintain open communication and a collaborative relationship with all levels of union leadership.
  • Coordinates overall daily activities pertaining to the hub, as well as coordination with partner regional carriers
  • Develops and monitors station metrics to enhance sustainable delivery of hub goals
  • Identifies and analyzes major trends and variances from operating plan in spending or operational performance
  • Drives strategic decision making by providing analytical, project management, and change management support to key initiatives, such as process improvement projects, key capital expenditures, and technology deployments
  • Ensures hub departments, business partners, and HDQ support groups are collaborating and working together to achieve the hub's strategic and operational objectives
  • Monitors spending performance, manpower, operating performance, and unit costs
  • Serves as the liaison with the Airport Authority for Security Badge and Employee Parking functions
  • Responsible for ensuring close collaboration and alignment with HDQ administration of Lost Time policies and procedures
  • Oversees all aspects of hub staffing, including transfers, hiring, RIF and recalls, payroll processing, leaves of absence, shift & vacation bids, attendance, overtime, and day-of resource allocation.
  • Owns hub compliance, financial performance, uniform, parking, and security badge administration


All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
  • 7 years of leadership experience, including leading teams, managers, and individual contributors
  • 7 years of business, operational, and financial experience with proficiency in assessing business requirements and developing budgets

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred

Skills, Licenses & Certifications
  • Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity
  • Knowledge of airline industry, American Airlines (AA) business strategy, company policies and procedures, and collective bargaining agreements
  • Ability to be an action-oriented and results-driven leader, with a natural aptitude for engaging employees across multiple workgroups
  • Ability to influence others through outstanding interpersonal skills, collaboration, and negotiation skills
  • Excellent project planning and organizational skills, with ability to effectively and simultaneously manage multiple large projects within tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
  • Excellent problem solving, negotiation, and critical thinking ability
  • Ability to productively and proactively adjust to dynamic situations
  • Ability to think strategically, negotiate skillfully, digest complex details, and use sound judgment and initiative in making decisions
  • Ability to identify opportunities for improvement, as well as proven success implementing strategic initiatives under time constraints
  • Ability to build and facilitate relationships at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to handle complex topics comfortably and to interact effectively with all levels, both verbally and written
  • Extensive experience with Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
  • Ability to work a varied schedule as needed in support of the operation, including nights, weekends, and holidays
  • Believes in and promotes the American Airlines five leadership attributes:
    • Caring - We care about all team members
    • Collaboration - We succeed as a team
    • Development - We build future leaders
    • Results - We drive to be the best
    • Future - We continually challenge the status quo


What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
  • Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
  • Health Benefits: On day one, you'll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that's just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
  • Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself - that's why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
  • 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
  • Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more


Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life's journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.

Cities: Dallas - TX
Requisition ID: 80203

About American Airlines

US Airways provides international and domestic air transport in the United States. It is owned by the American Airlines Group. US Airways utilizes a fleet of 343 mainline jet aircrafts, along with 278 regional jet and turbo-prop aircrafts operated by contract and subsidiary airlines under the name US Airways Express. It was originally established as All American Aviation.It operates an airline network with 193 destinations in 24 countries in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. It also operates the US Airways Shuttle, a US Airways brand which provides hourly service between Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.As of October 2013, US Airways employed 32,312 people worldwide and operated 3,028 daily flights.US Airways is a member of Oneworld, and it currently operates along with American Airlines as a result of a merge between the two holding companies of these airliners.US Airways was established in 1973. It operates hubs at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, Philadelphia Inte...

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Learn more about American Airlines
Size
123,400 employees
Market Cap
$8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$8.8 billion
Founded
1930
5 Year Trend
-5.7%
Revenue
$17.3 billion
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