TUI Group is looking for a Senior Long Term Planning Manager. This strategic role is responsible for shaping the airline network across multiple markets, translating big-picture strategy into actionable plans to optimize capacity, fleet utilization, and route profitability.
What You'll Do
- Develop and implement long-term regional network plans, analyzing market trends, customer demand patterns, and competitor activity to optimize route networks and connectivity.
- Support fleet investment decisions by providing detailed scenario analysis and long-term forecasting insights to ensure plans contribute to fleet efficiency and growth objectives.
- Influence fleet acquisition, retirement, and reallocation strategies while modeling seasonal and annual capacity plans through robust analysis and stakeholder engagement.
- Represent TUI Airline in regional forums, regulatory consultations and industry associations, negotiating with senior stakeholders to secure alignment on strategic network decisions.
- Lead the development of long-term planning processes, tools and methodologies, implementing best-practice frameworks that deepen analytical rigor.
- Monitor key planning KPIs—including seat capacity, fleet utilisation and route profitability—identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending corrective actions and process improvements.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience in long-term airline network planning.
- Strong understanding of market dynamics, demand forecasting, fleet deployment and competitive positioning.
- Deep knowledge of airline fleet deployment, route development, and capacity modeling.
- Ability to navigate aircraft economics and seasonal schedule planning effectively.
- Experience successfully influencing senior stakeholders and presenting complex recommendations persuasively in matrix environments.
- Understanding of operational constraints including crew, maintenance, airport limitations, and fleet capabilities.
- Experience in enhancing planning tools, automation and workflow processes.
- Proactive drive for continuous improvement to enhance planning processes, tools and methodologies.
Team & Environment
This role sits within Airline Commercial and Network Planning & B2B Sales (SD_0654) and reports to the Head of Long Term Network Strategy.
Benefits & Compensation
- Attractive remuneration.
- Generous travel benefits.
- Extensive health & well-being support.
- Flexible working with a dynamic working environment encouraging a healthy work-life balance.
- Access to the TUI Learning Hub for career development.
- Opportunities for intercultural collaboration and to work on global projects and teams.
- Community involvement with local charity and sustainability initiatives like the TUI Care Foundation.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role open to candidates in Luton (UK), Rijswijk (Netherlands), Zaventem (Belgium), Ostend (Belgium), Stockholm (Sweden), or Hannover (Germany).
At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments.
