United Air Lines, Inc

Senior Analyst - Operations Products & Strategy

United Air Lines, Inc$80K — $110K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or related experience
  • 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Strong knowledge of airport and network operations
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  • Ability to work with cross-functional teams; strong relationship building skills
  • Strong interpersonal, verbal and presentation skills
  • Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver decision-support frameworks and tools for operational stakeholders
  • Translate complex operational data into actionable insights and recommendations
  • Define functional vision into capability design including process, roles, and technology
  • Build and maintain process maps, decision trees, and logic frameworks for standardization
  • Partner with teams to redesign processes for exception-based workflows
  • Collaborate with product, technology, and analytics teams for scalable tools and automation
  • Develop executive-level presentations to articulate strategic insights and progress

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Focus on high-impact strategic transformation initiatives
  • Opportunities for proactive problem-solving and process optimization
  • Access to tools and insights that facilitate data-informed decision-making
  • Emphasis on career advancement and skill development in operational efficiency
Full Job Description
Description

Job overview and responsibilities

The Future Network & Station Operations team is responsible for shaping the future of station and network by designing scalable, data-driven solutions that enable more proactive, efficient, and informed decision-making. The team focuses on standardizing and automating information flows, building decision-support capabilities, and optimizing operational workflows to reduce complexity and manual effort across the operation. The team is working hand-in-hand to address emerging business needs and activate the future state of the customer reaccommodation function using process, roles, and technology.

The team partners with operational stakeholders to identify systemic opportunities, define high-impact problems, and develop integrated solutions that drive sustained enterprise-wide efficiency, scalability, and improved customer outcomes. This includes translating business needs into structured logic, frameworks, and tooling that elevate decision quality and enable operations to manage by exception.

The Senior Analyst - Future Network & Station Operations position plays a critical role in advancing strategic transformation initiatives across operational teams, focused on customer reaccommodation workflows. This role focuses on improving how decisions are made, how workflows are structured, and how processes are designed end-to-end to maximize efficiency and scalability. This position emphasizes proactive problem solving, process optimization, and value creation, shifting away from reactive, day-to-day issue resolution and toward enabling long-term operational improvements.

  • Design and deliver decision-support frameworks, tools, and insights that enable operational stakeholders to make faster, more consistent, and data-informed decisions
  • Translate complex operational data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations tied to business resource outcomes, like operational efficiency, customer impact, and cost
  • Translate functional vision into capability design - process, roles, and technology together
  • Build and maintain process maps, decision trees, and logic frameworks that define standardization across work groups
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to redesign processes for exception-based workflows, minimizing manual intervention and maximizing automation
  • Collaborate with product, technology, and analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable tools, automation logic, and reporting capabilities
  • Develop executive-level presentations and materials that clearly articulate strategic insights, recommendations, and progress against objectives


Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree or related experience
  • 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Strong knowledge of airport and network operations
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Power Point)
  • Ability to work with cross functional groups- strong relationship building skills
  • Strong interpersonal, verbal and presentation skills
  • Highly organized, and the ability to multi-task competing priorities
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
  • Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
  • Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position


What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree with an emphasis on airline management, aviation or industrial engineering
  • 3 - 5 years of experience in management or operations.
  • Airline, process engineering, quantitative and qualitative analysis preferred
  • Experience with process/system mapping and analysis
  • Project management experience
  • Experience using at least one database management system
  • Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Experience with process/system mapping and analysis

About United Air Lines, Inc

United Airlines is a major American airline that operates a large domestic and international route network. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and is a founding member of the Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance. United Airlines operates a fleet of over 800 aircraft and serves more than 350 destinations in over 50 countries.
Learn more about United Air Lines, Inc
Size
87,400 employees
Market Cap
$12.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$7 billion
Founded
1926
5 Year Trend
-7.6%
Revenue
$15.3 billion
NASDAQ

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