Crew Logistics Analyst - Workforce Planning

Salary: Competitive

Contract: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

Hours: Full time, 37.5 per week, Monday – Friday.

Location: Hybrid remote working, with 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley based on operational requirements

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.

You’ll evaluate commercial schedules, program changes, and charters—modifying and communicating pairings where needed—all while keeping crew regulations, establishment needs, and costs in mind. Your expertise will be key to keeping our Crew Logistics operations efficient, compliant, and fully in tune with Virgin Atlantic’s vision.

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.

Interviews will be held at VHQ Crawley week commencing 20th January 2025.

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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. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.