Delta Jobs

Manager – Optimization

United States, Georgia, Atlanta

Enterprise Digital Strategy

16-Apr-2024

Ref #: 24509

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

Delta Air Lines, Inc. has multiple openings for Manager – Optimization in Atlanta, Georgia. Lead a team to solve optimization business problems pertaining to Pricing, Revenue Management, and Offer creation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deliver, and maintain proprietary models and engines that result in improved customer offers and increased revenue for Delta Air Lines.

• Lead, train, motivate, and mentor a diverse, high-performing, and innovative team with skills that include optimization, statistics, data science, and programming.

• Identify commercial opportunities that can be addressed by developing data sources, methods, tools and models to optimize Delta revenue.

• Maintain a pulse on industry efforts and disruptive technologies, and champion solutions to further Delta's position as an industry leader.

• Exemplify servant leadership with a focus on team development and employee career growth.

• Foster a culture focused on deep understanding of airline pricing and revenue management business problems and innovative, modern, and flexible solutions.

• Analyze the interrelationships between Schedules, Pricing, and Revenue Management, and the combined impact on the Delta Customer experience.

• Set short-term and long-term strategic goals and objectives for areas of responsibility with specific plans to close gaps and adjust priorities as circumstances change.

• Monitor and regularly communicate performance and progress towards goals.

• Build strong working relationships with leaders and experts across Revenue Management, Pricing, Global Pricing Distribution, Operations Research, Distribution/Digital, and IT.

• Balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Telecommuting is permitted 2-3 days per week.

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way.

Why You'll Love Delta

• Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives

• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits

• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages

• Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health

• Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members

• World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint

• Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together

• Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies

• Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

• Master's degree in Operations Research or related field, and five years of experience with development and evaluation of product solutions, process improvement, or related.

• Advanced mathematics and statistics experience including regression modeling, k-means clustering, causal inference, hypothesis testing, and data mining;

• Optimization including quadratic programming, dynamic programming, and meta-heuristics;

• Machine Learning, including supervised and unsupervised classification, clustering, and forecasting;

• Unix shell scripting; and

• Python, SQL, SAS, and database management.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

Airline experience is preferred

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