Director Network Strategy & Performance

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Position Summary: Atlas Air is seeking a highly analytical, strategically minded leader to serve as a key partner to the Staff Vice President of Network Planning in driving the performance, economics, and evolution of the airline's global network. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, finance, and technology. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying opportunities to improve aircraft productivity, service reliability, capacity utilization, profitability, and planning effectiveness across the enterprise.

Working across Commercial, Operations, Maintenance, Crew, Finance, and Technology organizations, this individual will help shape how the airline makes decisions, allocates resources, and optimizes performance. The role serves as the analytical and strategic engine behind network performance improvement, translating complex operational and commercial challenges into actionable recommendations and measurable business outcomes. The ideal candidate combines structured problem-solving skills, strong analytical capabilities, and practical business judgment.

They are equally comfortable evaluating a customer-specific performance issue, developing a fleet allocation recommendation, supporting a business development opportunity, or leading a transformation initiative that improves how the airline plans and operates. They are not only able to identify opportunities, but also build consensus, navigate complexity, and drive implementation to deliver measurable results. Major Job Accountabilities: Network Performance & Economics Analyze performance across customers, contracts, aircraft, fleets, routes, business units, and the overall network.

Identify opportunities to improve aircraft utilization, service reliability, cost efficiency, profitability, and network productivity. Develop performance management frameworks and key metrics to evaluate network effectiveness. Conduct root-cause analyses of operational and commercial performance gaps and develop actionable improvement plans.

Create executive-level analyses, business cases, and recommendations to support decision-making. Quantify trade-offs between revenue, utilization, reliability, cost, and operational complexity. Strategic Network Optimization Evaluate network design alternatives and recommend opportunities to improve schedule efficiency and asset productivity.

Support fleet allocation, spare aircraft strategy, capacity planning, and long-term network development decisions. Assess customer and contract performance and recommend changes that align incentives and improve operational and economic outcomes. Support commercial and business development initiatives through scenario analysis and strategic evaluation.

Identify opportunities to better align network design with evolving customer demand and market conditions. Drive analytical reviews of network assumptions, planning methodologies, and operating parameters. Integrated Airline Planning Partner across Commercial, Operations, Maintenance, Crew, Finance, and Technology organizations to ensure planning decisions reflect enterprise-wide objectives and constraints.

Support the development of a more integrated planning model that improves coordination across functions and planning horizons.