Senior Director, Airport Revenue Optimization

Metropolis Metropolis · Vertical AI · New York, NY +1 · Revenue Operations

This role is for a Senior Director of Airport Revenue Optimization. The primary focus is on developing and executing strategies for parking revenue management services for airports. The role involves leading a team, managing client relationships, and transitioning manual revenue management tasks into data-driven, automated services by leveraging AI for financial forecasting, demand/supply modeling, and task automation. The goal is to optimize parking revenue through advanced pricing, inventory, and channel management strategies, and to prove the ROI of the solution to clients.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee the end-to-end delivery of the suite of revenue management services (forecasting, pricing, inventory, reporting) to function as a single, coherent value proposition; bring a perspective, based on data and experience
  2. Provide senior leadership over the revenue management team, which is led by a director and includes a team of revenue management professionals that serve our airport clients
  3. Own senior client relationships and work with our clients and teams to drive impact, ultimately measured as increase in parking revenue
  4. Lead the development of next generation pricing, inventory and channel management strategies (e.g. customer segmentations, fencing, etc) and operationalize and deploy these strategies
  5. Lead the transition of manual Revenue Management tasks into data-driven, automated services; partner with data and engineering teams to leverage AI for financial forecasting, demand/supply modeling, and task automation, ensuring capture of cost efficiencies through scale

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physical Sciences, or a related quantitative field; or equivalent experience
  • Strong quantitative skills and thinking; mastery of Excel
  • Understanding of pricing and revenue management concepts and key metrics
  • Background in B2C Revenue Management and Pricing in an industry with perishable inventory, preferably in travel or transportation
  • Progressive senior operations and service delivery leadership experience
  • Proven track record of impact
  • Hands-on leader who has built close-to-reporting processes in complex environments
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and building from ground up
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in Engineering, Physical Sciences, or a related quantitative field
  • Knowledge of aviation and airport data sources, limitations and relative merits
  • Familiarity with modeling tools and some familiarity with Revenue Management Systems
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to transform static workflows into responsive, high-output processes to streamline data analysis and reporting

What the JD emphasized

  • AI for financial forecasting
  • demand/supply modeling
  • task automation