Sr Analyst - Contract Strategy

Job overview and responsibilities

Senior Analyst - Contract Strategy will assist and control project management efforts for the AVM group. Will provide, analyze and document available resources required to ensure base airframe projects are performed on time and budget. Will help identify material and labor cost savings opportunities across multiple airframe maintenance suppliers. Will put together initiatives and enhancements and follow up to ensure implementation. Will assist management with supplier accountability reports to ensure goals are met across the organization.

• Work with multiple UAL stakeholders to identify areas of internal and external systemic issues, estimate the current cost to the company, come up with mitigation plans and forecast potential savings
• Work with multiple data sources to cross-reference historic actuals across stations and suppliers to ensure standardization of timelines, labor and material costs   
• Work to minimize the variances on a work card level
• Analyze the cost benefits of select contractually negotiated options across vendors for contract unification    
• Find, analyze, document, and initiate necessary corrections to the financial forecast on monthly basis 
• Analyze historic data to enhance the methodology of applying NR ratio based on empirical evidence by fleet, sub fleet, vintage and aircraft time on wing
• Provide accurate and useful data on time (MPPR performance data, PMA clarification, Airframe Analytics tool revamp, comparison of labor and material use across same task/different location/vendor to standardize costs across fleets and locations)    
• Support fleet roadmap and ongoing fleet initiatives (Support base airframe improvement projects, Support overall cost performance, Review span performance and variances between suppliers, identify corrective action options)
• Create and managing MOR operational performance dashboards

This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship

Qualifications - External

Required:

• Bachelor's degree (preferably in AME or Statistics/B Tech)
• At least 2 years of experience in airframe MRO oversight support roles, 1 year of vendor accountability documenting all aspects of base maintenance oversight (QA/QC/Spans, budgets, material flow, etc)
• Strong knowledge of airframe MRO operations
• Be very familiar with Excel, performance metric development and performance reporting
• Experience with understanding aircraft maintenance programs and fleet project efforts (EA's), with focus on budget, planning and materials
• Be experienced in manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high dimensionality data from various sources to highlight patterns and relationships using foundry
• Superior attention to accuracy and detail
• Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship
• Must be fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree    
• Experience with PowerBI, Python, Foundry or other visualization tools, preferred