Manager, Scheduling

Job Description • Location: RedQ • Department: Group Scheduling • Entity: AAAMS • Status (Full time/part time/contract): Full time JOB DESCRIPTION: As a Manager, Scheduling you will lead and oversee the development of AirAsia's and/or AirAsia X flight schedules, both economically and operationally optimized. You will ensure all operational parameters and constraints are met, ensuring that the schedules produced are feasible while driving the performance of your team. This role includes overseeing the accurate publication of flight schedules across various platforms, including airasia.com and the Navitaire reservations system, and ensuring the quality of service delivery from the team. WHAT YOU’LL CHAMPION: • Team Leadership & Performance Management: You will manage a team of one or more, providing guidance, leadership, and development. You'll monitor the team's performance closely, setting clear KPIs, and ensuring that these targets are met. You will conduct regular performance reviews and identify growth opportunities for team members, fostering a high-performing, results-driven culture. • Short Term & Long Term Schedule Development: You will lead the creation and distribution of aircraft routing solutions for AirAsia’s widebody and narrowbody network, ensuring operational feasibility and alignment with business goals. This includes overseeing the team’s scheduling processes and providing direction on operational priorities. • Annual Budget Schedule Development: You will take a more prominent role in developing and aligning the company’s yearly budget into flight schedules, working closely with senior leadership and other departments to ensure alignment with business strategy. • Slots Management: You will be filing as well as overseeing the management & monitoring of the slot portfolio at all airports. • Inventory Management: You will be responsible for transitioning the flight schedule from planning to live mode by uploading and updating the information in the Schedule Manager (New Skies). Additionally, you will coordinate with the Preflight team during flight rescheduling. • Maximizing Revenue: You will be responsible for driving the implementation of strategic flight schedules, optimizing revenue generation opportunities by aligning schedules with holidays, demand patterns, and special events. You will lead efforts to capitalize on business opportunities and revenue maximization. • Operational Excellence: You will evaluate and lead the implementation of fleet changes, special events, and charter schedules, ensuring that all operational requirements are met while supporting AirAsia’s overall business goals. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: You will work closely with other operational teams to balance operational, financial, and efficiency objectives, ensuring a streamlined approach to schedule management and driving the team towards achieving company goals. • Stakeholder Communication: You will lead and facilitate clear communication regarding future flight schedules to both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency across all teams and departments. WHO YOU ARE: • Experienced Leader : With 3+ years of leadership experience, you know how to inspire, engage, and empower your team to achieve both individual and collective success. You’ll be a role model, guiding your team through challenges and encouraging growth. • Strategic Thinker : With 5+ years of experience in airline planning and scheduling, you possess a deep understanding of optimizing routes, analyzing complex data, and driving business outcomes while leading a team to deliver these results. • Ethical and Integrity-Driven : You operate with the highest standards of personal ethics, integrity, and transparency in all aspects of your work. Your leadership will reflect these values, setting an example for your team. • Problem Solver & Decision Maker : Your strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking ability allow you to guide your team through challenges while ensuring timely and effective decision-making that drives successful outcomes. • Adaptable & Resilient : You thrive in dynamic environments, adjusting quickly to changing conditions and guiding your team to maintain high performance under pressure. You inspire confidence even in challenging situations. • Collaborative & Communicative : With strong interpersonal and communication skills, you build relationships at all levels and ensure smooth interactions between internal and external stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and transparent team culture. WHERE YOU’LL GO: Dispatcher to captain, ramp agent to data analyst, brand executive to CEO - these are some Dare To Dream stories of our Allstars. As you continue to excel in this role, you will have opportunities to advance further into senior management roles, including Head of the department. In this role, you will champion schedule optimization initiatives, drive revenue-maximizing strategies, and continue to build and lead high-performing teams, ensuring operational efficiency and seamless execution of flight schedules across AirAsia. WHAT YOU’LL ENJOY: • Physical Wellbeing: Key medical and insurance benefits, maternity expenses, flexible work arrangement, and health and fitness amenities . • Emotional Wellbeing: Paid time off, wellness programmes, and childcare amenities. • Financial Wellbeing: Resources relating to financial, personal skills and career growth programmes. • Allstars Specials: Free flights, unlimited discounted flights, and exclusive discounts with partners. • A unique Allstar culture like no other OUR HIRING PROCESS: • Application received • Candidate screening • Interview(s) and assessment(s) • Background check and/or other assessments • Offer and negotiation GET TO KNOW AIRASIA: AirAsia has been the World's Best Low-Cost Airline for 16 consecutive years with over 800 million guests flown. We continue to champion dreams, serv…