Sr Manager, Business Transformation

Intro Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board! Why you'll love this job The Sr Manager, Business Transformation will serve as an internal strategic partner to Supply Chain leaders, helping turn complex business challenges into clear recommendations, business cases, and practical plans. This role will identify and evaluate opportunities to improve material availability, service reliability, productivity, and cost performance, and help leaders prioritize initiatives and measure results. This role is part of the Supply Chain Transformation & Strategy team within Tech Ops Supply Chain. What you'll do As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations. Partner with Supply Chain leaders to understand business priorities, operational processes, performance gaps, and strategic opportunities Lead structured problem solving to define complex business issues, analyze data, test assumptions, evaluate options, and develop practical recommendations Collaborate with business units & executive leadership to identify and prioritize initiatives that align with overall strategy Define project scope, objectives, and timelines for initiatives and track progress against goals Partner with initiative owners to translate recommendations into clear plans, align stakeholders, and track milestones, dependencies, risks, and expected value Monitor and evaluate performance against established KPIs and recommend adjustments as needed Develop business cases and implementation roadmaps that clearly define the opportunity, options, expected benefits, and key milestones Collaborate with technical and operations teams to gather requirements and feedback from key business stakeholders to develop clear, and detailed specifications to drive delivery of measurable process improvement goals Prepare executive and board presentation materials that clearly explain findings, recommendations, tradeoffs, and decisions needed Collaborate with leaders to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve Supply Chain performance and deliver measurable business value All you'll need for success Minimum Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Finance, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience/training 5+ years of experience in strategy, transformation, consulting, supply chain, finance, corporate planning, program/portfolio management, or related roles, including experience leading cross-functional work and supporting senior leaders Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience MBA Prior management experience with direct reports Experience in aviation, airline operations, MRO, Tech Ops, or complex supply chain environments Skills, Licenses, & Certifications Strong analytical, problem-solving, and structured thinking skills, with the ability to turn complex supply chain issues into clear options, business cases, and executive-ready recommendations Working knowledge of supply chain strategy, material planning, inventory, and warehouse and distribution operations, and the ability to define KPIs and track initiative value Excellent project management skills with experience driving strategic initiatives and delivering results Strategi…

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