Flight Crew Demand and Slip Senior Specialist

The Flight Crew Demand & Slip Senior Specialist ensures accurate manpower planning by building and adjusting demand plans and slip patterns. They align plans with operational needs, (re)budget timelines, and dynamic changes from Aviation Planning while maintaining up-to-date IT tools. The role involves deciding on different scenarios to test and making decisions with significant cost and resource implications.

We are happy to consider this opportunity on a hybrid working model with an average of 2 days per week in the office or in line with local office attendance requirements (whichever is higher). International travel should be expected a couple of days per month.

About Our Offer

• Personal benefits: Attractive remuneration, generous travel benefits, extensive health & well-being support, and more

• Flexible working: Work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with a dynamic working environment

• A career to shape: Access the TUI Learning Hub to level-up and reach your ambitions

• Broaden your network: We champion intercultural collaboration and provide opportunities to work on global projects and teams

• Community: Get involved with incredible local charity and sustainability initiatives like the TUI Care Foundation

About the Job

• Support the creation and maintenance of detailed Flight Crew demand plans by gathering, analysing, and validating data related to flying programs, fleet changes, and operational plans
• Incorporate variables such as leave, standby, training, sickness, and inefficiencies into the Flight Crew demand plan, ensuring compliance with all legal, regulatory, and industrial agreements
• Build and adjust slip patterns and master weeks for Flight Crew as required, ensuring a thorough handover process is in place across all AOCs
• Support the development of confidential 'what-if' scenario planning by preparing accurate data inputs, running simulations, and analysing the potential impact on Flight Crew demand
• Collaborate with operations, training, HR, and other departments to ensure Flight Crew demand aligns with broader manpower planning objectives
• Act as a key contributor to union negotiations at the AOC level by attending regular union meetings and providing manpower planning expertise
• Support the development of leave quotas and training delivery plans, ensuring alignment with operational requirements and fostering collaborative, data-driven decision-making in a highly sensitive and unionised environment
• Support and maintain IT tools used for Flight Crew Demand calculation, ensuring they are consistently updated with accurate data and aligned with operational requirements
• Monitor changes in demand driven primarily by Aviation Planning updates, and re-budget the demand accordingly. Recommend and implement adjustments to ensure alignment with operational requirements

About You

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong relationships
• Stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence
• Sound organisational and problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail
• Excellent analytical skills, both in process and report domains
• Experience in Manpower Planning, preferably within the Aviation industry
• Understanding of local labour regulations and contractual agreements in the aviation sector
• Strong business English, both spoken and written. Will involve some international travel

Security Clearance Statement

At TUI, safety is our top priority. We conduct thorough background checks on all employees who join our Airline. Rest assured; we’ll guide you on the necessary information you need to provide at each stage.

Please note that if you are applying for a role in the UK, you must ensure you can provide a full 5 years referencing, plus a criminal record check for all countries you’ve resided in for more than 6 months in the past 5 years (some costs may apply).

Email: Diane.Draper@tui.co.uk