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Crew Logistics Analyst (Workforce Planning)
Sector: Operations and Facilities Management, Transport and Logistics
Role: Analyst
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Job Details
Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday
Location: Hybrid remote working, with 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley, West Sussex
Contract: Fixed Term Contract/Secondment 12 months
Closing Date: 8th January 2025
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
We're searching for a proactive and detail-focused Analyst for Crew Logistics on a fixed term contract for 12 months to join our incredible team. In this role, you'll take charge of delivering timely, accurate, and cost-effective crew pairings to the Roster Production team, ensuring everything aligns seamlessly with EASA regulations, FRM principles, and industrial agreements.
Day to day
One of your key responsibilities will be to provide analytical support to our Workforce Planning team, delivering crucial insights from crew pairings to inform our establishment planning models. Your day-to-day will also include:
* The timely, accurate, robust, and cost-effective creation and maintenance of crew pairings for future planning month.
* Ensuring compliance to regulatory and union agreements including FRM evaluation, making recommendations as appropriate.
* Ensuring relevant and accurate pairing information, standby and crew hotel requirements is provided to support establishment planning and rostering.
* Ensure that Roster Production, Pilots, and Cabin Crew are provided with up to date, robust pairing plans, in time for roster bidding and are compliant with EASA, FRM and Industrial agreements.
* Data analysis to support establishment planning activities (trip days/hours / days off etc).
* Continuous improvement of AIMs pairings generator to ensure optimal crew pairings are derived.
About you
We're on the lookout for someone with experience in crafting and managing crew pairings while supporting establishment planning. Here's what we'd love you to bring to the role:
* Experience of using optimisation tools in Jeppesen, AIMs or other crew management systems.
* Utilisation of advanced Excel functions and complex formulas to analyse and interpret data efficiently.
* Experience of using either Power BI or Tableau preferable.
* Experience in data visualisation, modelling and handling large data sets.
* Exceptional attention to detail and a proactive approach to managing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
* Ability to work independently and make informed decisions.
* A passion for innovation and supporting a forward-thinking team.
* Works effectively under pressure to meet deadlines.
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive.
Company
Richard Branson founded Virgin Atlantic in 1984 with the intention of shaking up the aviation industry. Since then, we’ve grown from a small team, one 747 plane and a single route, to a global network that employs thousands of wonderful people worldwide.
We’re not just your average airline. We’re a family-centric one who recognises togetherness as a hugely important aspect of life. We support and care about our employees and their families, which makes Virgin Atlantic a special place to work and the long-haul airline our customers fall in love with.
When it comes to our people, they’re a passionate lot, united in creating something different. It’s always been like this. It’s in our DNA, and it was ignited within us from the moment we started flying. So, step on board, get ready to find your purpose, embrace your human spirit and let it fly.
Our ways of working
We’re on a mission to become the most loved travel company, but with this comes great responsibility. We must support all of our people to embrace a growth mindset. To think like a start-up and act like an owner of Virgin Atlantic and to live our values every day. Our ways of working are designed to reflect the balance of happiness, productivity, collaboration, and team spirit that make us uniquely Virgin.
Our people & networks
At Virgin Atlantic, we want to inspire everyone to take on the world, championing inclusivity, activism, and challenger spirit. It guides us in everything we do as we strive to make progress on the issues that matter most. We know difference is a strength, enabling us to be a force for good for our employees, customers, and communities.
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