Reporting into the director of strategy, this person would play a critical part in developing Aer Lingus’s long-term strategy, addressing key business challenges, and evaluating promising opportunities. In addition, this person would fill a pivotal role in crafting the airline’s annual business plan which lays out our 3-year strategy. The successful candidate would provide analytical leverage to a small and nimble team and have exposure to a wide variety of stakeholders across the organization including the chief strategy & planning officer. On a regular basis, the successful candidate would interact with the network, revenue management, fleet, customer, finance, and operations teams.

This group affords the ability to think about the business & industry in a holistic and long-term manner.  In addition, our group can incorporate other external factors into our work—e.g. country demographics, competitor actions, macro trends—in a way that makes this work quite fulfilling. 

The role provides a great opportunity to learn about the airline industry, think through intellectually challenging business issues, and develop their skills in a close-knit and welcoming environment. 

In addition, our Strategy & Planning Department helps us to push forward Aer Lingus’ ambition by driving sustainability programs and ensuring that strategic planning supports environmentally responsible practices, aligning with the airline’s long-term sustainability goals.

Your responsibilities as a Strategy Analyst will include,

1. Draw insights from:

• Analysing business performance (e.g., route profitability, costs, forward bookings)
• Conducting research (e.g., competitor financials, industry data, airline databases)
• Speaking with external parties (e.g., trade groups)
• Monitoring competitor strategies to identify market opportunities and threats
• Building financial models to assess trade-offs and impacts of decisions

2. Package insights into presentations for executives,board of directors, and other stakeholders

3. Collaborate with peers to:

• Access key inputs for modelling and business recommendations
• To push projects forward

4. Support business planning process including preparing  board presentations
5. Develop business cases to support growth initiatives
6. Respond to ad-hoc projects from senior leaders
7. Interact with senior leaders across the organisation

We are looking for an individual with experience / qualifications in the following areas:

• Undergraduate degree qualification
• 2+ years professional experience
• Ideally, currently in a post-university role in consulting or banking 
• Strong analytical, quantitative and research skills (e.g., excel, tableau, fluency with data)
• Familiarity with basic financial concepts (e.g., components of a profit & loss statement)
• Ability to draw insights from disparate data and tell a story
• Presentation skill set (e.g., powerpoint)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Intellectually curious
• Natural problem solver
• Proven capability to work effectively under pressure and commitment to producing high quality output to tight deadlines
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Eligible to live and work in the EU
• Current unrestricted worldwide passport
• Provide three verifiable references
• Able to pass a five year security background check as this role is based in Dublin

Closing Date: 02nd of April 2025

At Aer Lingus, we embrace diversity and believe in providing equal opportunities to all qualified individuals. We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive and respectful work environment that values employees unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected status. If you have any questions or require any accommodations to support you in your application, please contact us at recruitaerlingus.com.