The primary responsibilities of the role include directing the development, implementation, and evaluation of airline and linehaul truck schedules for the corporation. The incumbent will also optimize product routing through the linehaul system, analyze and implement new products, services, and systems, and ensure the timely movement of packages.
Essential Functions- Provides leadership and oversight of new digital tool development and deployment, select, train, and develop a subordinate staff of 50+ employees
- Administers an annual operating budget of approximately $4.0 million
- Works closely with various departments and stakeholders to ensure the least cost per package linehaul system and coordinate volume, lane distributions, and tender times with USPS to meet contractual obligations and service commitments
- Chairs monthly Global Linehaul Management Forum meetings, identifying root causes for service exceptions and implementing corrective measures, and developing and communicating global product routing information
- Coordinates the development of load plans, work with Operations Research to phase in future system form into business plans and schedules, and direct the publication of annual business plan schedules and volume flows
- Work with Sales Solutions and Customer Engineering to integrate new/incremental business, develop and maintain URSA routing systems, and direct the phase-in and deployment of new aircraft
- Demand & Capacity management, in industry is also called S&OP (Sales and Operation Plan), to match a volatile customer demand to air network plans, include FedEx owned and third party airline broader network
- Chair DCM with key stakeholder including Commercial, Finance and Operations, devise tactics and strategies to manage air network capacity and shape customer demand
- Responsible to sustain profitable topline growth and optimize on cost and service performance for a multi billion $ air network cost center, with 200 airports to be connected worldwide
- Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum EducationMasters degree in engineering or similar quantitative field or a related field, or Bachelors degree in quantitative/scientific discipline with seven years of relevant experience.
Minimum ExperienceFive (5) years of aviation experience in aircraft scheduling, operations planning, or surface transportation scheduling planning
Four (4) years of managerial leadership and mentorship experience or at least two (2) years of manager experience and proven track record of managing large cross-functional teams to deliver over $50M of profit improvement or large tech transformations
Proven experience of having adopted/run Ops Research based models or ML/AI systems
Knowledge, Skills and AbilitiesDemonstrated leadership abilities, including ability to think big, deliver results, invent and simplify, and hiring & developing top talents, backbone and bias for action
Strong knowledge of aviation, preferred
Collaboration skills to work with various departments.
Ability to work with ultra large data set to extract business insights and design actions to improve company's performances
Job ConditionsSome travel required
Preferred Qualifications: Pay Transparency: Pay: Additional Details: This is a hybrid position. Candidates must live within 50 miles of the campus location. Employees will be required to work at the FedEx campus location several times per week.
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