Planning Analyst

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• Utilise your analytical expertise and help to plan the future of the airport.
• Support high level decision making with actionable analysis.
• Join a small passionate team with a big reach!

• Utilise your analytical expertise and help to plan the future of the airport.
• Support high level decision making with actionable analysis.
• Join a small passionate team with a big reach!

Melbourne Airport is one of Australia's premier transport hubs and Victoria's gateway to the world, connecting us to the global marketplace. Our success requires us to be a high-performance organisation, committed to enhancing the traveller experience across every aspect of our business, to deliver against our vision of being an airport Melbourne can be proud of.  
 
About the Role
As a member of the Infrastructure Planning team, the Planning Analyst provides analytical support, demand and capacity modelling, and operational performance benchmarking for the Planning team and the airport's business units. The Planning Analyst develops and maintains a suite of analytical models that forecast current and future asset performance, deliver integrated and coherent indications on the timing and size of additional infrastructure capacity requirements, and support the timely delivery of capital investments and operational improvements at the airport.  Through their collaboration with the business, the Planning Analyst will also support the establishment of a single source of truth regarding the airport's operational data.
 
The responsibilities of the role include: 

• Data Analysis and Modelling: Builds, operates and maintains complex excel models and tools using best practice techniques to simulate airport facilities and analyse various capacity scenarios to defined briefs in tight deadlines.  Undertakes analysis of demand and capacity trends to support the master and capital planning process. Engages with the business in the development and use of these models, to agree the book of modelling assumptions, interrogate and interpret outputs to inform the production of reports and presentations. 

• Airport Planning Research and Commercial Support: Understands business problems and uses sensitivity tests in capacity models and simulation tools in order to identify potential solutions.  Consults with the business to ensure the solutions are practical and robust before implementation, ensuring the information and data held in APAM's capacity models is well managed, controlled, reviewed, and updated in a timely and regular manner. Proactively improves APAM's understanding of service levels (e.g. queue time, process rate, and capacities) at the airport and influences agreed service standards by understanding constraints and identifying mitigating actions.

• Continuous Planning Process: Keeps up to date with developments in analytical methods and techniques that are applicable to APAM's business. Develops knowledge of airport management, operations and APAM's wider business and commercial activities in order to provide Planning and the business with informed interpretation, analysis and reporting. Proactively seeks opportunities to improve the quality, reduce the processing time, and improve the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the analytical tools and processes.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Tertiary qualification in a numerate or analytical discipline.  Aviation qualifications will be viewed favourably.
• Proven analysis and modelling experience in aviation, consulting or a large capacity driven infrastructure asset.
• Experience and expert practitioner of excel modelling best practice techniques.
• Highly organised and able to multitask, plan, prioritise, organise and monitor activities and projects with an attention to detail and a continuous improvement focus.
• Excellent communication skills, influencing and interpersonal skills with an ability to engage in a positive, can-do manner.
• Demonstrates experience in stakeholder management, particularly in managing needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve target outcomes against tight deadlines.
• Technically proficient in using data visualisation software (e.g. Tableau).

Benefits & Culture
We foster a friendly, high performance culture with a focus on our people and their development.  Some of the benefits our people enjoy include:

• Free car parking 365 days of the year for both business/personal use plus access to an employee benefits scheme including access to corporate rates and airport retailer discounts (including SkyBus) plus many more......

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