Senior Analyst - Pilot Workforce Planning & Analysis

Location: Chicago and Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States; onsite role. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.

Base pay: $81,795.00–$106,602.00 per year, plus potential bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global operates an airline network and provides flight operations, pilot training, and passenger air travel services.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain midterm pilot staffing strategies, headcount forecasts, and vacancy plans across bases, fleets, and seat levels.
• Determine staffing levers including vacancies, displacements, staffing minimum adjustments, and expected pilot movements.
• Evaluate vacancy snapshots and prepare monthly summaries for managing director and vice president audiences.
• Run training optimization models to balance training constraints, cost implications, contractual requirements, and pilot behavior uncertainty.
• Support UPA implementation, contract, and ALPA-related efforts to maintain vacancy-process and pilot-movement compliance.
• Collaborate with Workforce Planning, Crew Resources, Finance, and the Flight Training Center to optimize resource cost and capacity utilization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or four years of relevant work experience.
• At least two years of experience in a related role and at least two years of management-level experience.
• Advanced Excel capabilities and strong data analysis, querying, and modeling skills.
• Leadership, communication, and presentation development skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and self-motivation to identify signals in data, understand root causes, and derive actionable insights.
• Demonstrated experience using data analysis to evaluate anecdotal hypotheses or abstract concepts.
• Strong verbal communication and visual communication skills, including dashboards and PowerPoint.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
• Successful completion of an interview and reliable, punctual attendance.

Nice to have

• Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, or Statistics, or equivalent experience in management consulting or airline management.
• Experience in Crew Planning, Network Planning, Financial Planning & Analysis, or Strategic Planning/Corporate Development at a major global airline with multiple aircraft types and crew bases.
• Programming language experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, accident, and disability benefits.
• Parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter benefits, paid holidays, and paid time off.
• 401(k) and flight privileges.
• Potential bonus and long-term incentive compensation awards.