How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Delta Air Lines is the most profitable U.S. airline and leader in innovation and customer experience. With our mission of connecting the world, Delta strives to foster understanding and serve as a force for social good. Employing over 100,000 people, our culture is rooted in a shared commitment to living our values – integrity, care, resilience, servant leadership – in everything we do every day. Fortune has named Delta 11 on its Most Admired Companies list and Glassdoor as one of its "Best Places to Work." The Enterprise Strategy team, led by Michelle Horn, Chief Strategy Officer (former McKinsey Partner, Human Capital leader, and Chief of Staff to the Managing Partner) drives enterprise-wide value, building on Delta’s competitive advantages and strength as a leading customer brand.
This Secondee will gain an executive understanding of value drivers and priorities for the company by developing recommendations to drive and measure progress for cross enterprise strategies, with a focus on Board-level priorities. The role has consistent exposure to VP+ leaders across the organization.
Previous Secondee Projects Have Included Collaboration On
- Commercial, Operation, Customer Experience, and Digital Strategies
- Emerging technology positions, including Delta’s $60M investment in Joby Aviation
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Current 2nd year McKinsey BA
- Ability to:
- Learn quickly, navigate ambiguous problems, and approach work in a flexible way.
- Collaborate and build relationships with leaders on the Strategy team and across divisions to understand business needs, share approaches, and drive strategic capabilities forward.
- Communicate clearly and concisely for a senior executive audience, both verbally and through document preparation.
- Assess business challenges and create a streamlined approach for actionable solutions.
- Identify and analyze industry trends, competitive benchmarks, and complex data sets.
- Prioritize and monitor multiple programs, report performance measures to stakeholders. o Self-starter with a passion for Delta’s mission, curiosity, and willingness to work flexibly, including on ad hoc requests.
- Resolve to go the extra mile and support others through mentorship and skill building. o Embrace of diverse people, thinking and styles.
- Consistently prioritize safety and security of self and others.
- Advanced computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are required.
- Satisfactory performance in current position.
- BS/BA, preferably in a business or a scientific field with 2+ years of relevant work experience.
Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience supporting strategic analysis, structuring end-to-end from insights to execution and cross functional program management, possessing superior technical skills including financial acumen and analytical modeling to inform the prioritization of strategic options and development of creative solutions to complex problems.
- Development of presence and communication skills for an executive audience
Benefits And Perks To Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
- New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)
- In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year
- Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
- Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
- Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
