How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for more than a decade while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world 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 is focused on driving cross-divisional value as Delta executes its strategy, building on Delta’s unique competitive advantages and strength as a leading customer brand and operator. The team partners closely with business teams across operations, customer experience and digital/technology, and plays a key role in guiding Delta’s AI strategy.
In the role of Manager, Enterprise Strategy, you will help develop Delta’s long-term strategic roadmap, identify transformational cross-divisional opportunities, and drive to value creation/capture. This position will also have responsibility for supporting Delta executives, Board level priorities and help oversee partnerships to meet our long-term objectives.
Primary Functions
- Work collaboratively across enterprise teams to identify, define and plan for the most essential strategic opportunities and challenges
- Prepare, analyze, and use data to make actionable recommendations and drive progress against cross enterprise programs
- Analyze industry trends and competitive benchmarking to affirm or alter strategies as necessary
- Distill key strategic themes, ideas, and opportunities into tangible and executable plans, initiatives, and executive communications
- Help define, accelerate, track and monitor key cross functional programs and results while reporting on performance measures and effectiveness of implemented strategies to executive leadership
- Tell clear and compelling stories leveraging data and strategic direction
- Identify and analyze business risks, regularly prepare executive presentations, and actively participate in meetings with cross enterprise leadership
- Develop and implement communication and change strategies that convey strategic objectives across the organization
- Support preparation of agendas / topics / materials for Board and other executive meetings in conjunction with other business leaders
- Work on additional projects as need including reporting and ad hoc analytical requests
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing strategic planning or larger scale / cross functional program management with 4+ years work experience at Delta, other large corporate entities, strategy consulting firm, investment banking or equivalent experience
- Ability to formulate an evidence-based point-of-view quickly with minimal direct guidance
- Executive presence and communication skills to be an effective agent of change and vision
- Superior technical skills including quantitative and qualitative analysis, financial acumen, analytical modeling, data analysis for the purpose of assisting the exploration of strategic options and development of creative solutions to complex problems
- Experience researching external trends, sources, information to form perspectives / points of view / recommendations given quickly changing or ambiguous topics
- Participation in one or more organizational transformations with evidence of business change, performance improvement, growth, cost reductions
- Advanced computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are required
- Fluency in generative AI tools and applications, including the ability to leverage AI to enhance strategic analysis, synthesize complex information, and improve productivity; experience crafting effective prompts, critically evaluating outputs for accuracy and bias, and applying sound judgment to integrate AI into business workflows
- 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)
- Master’s Degree in Business or a related field preferred or relevant experience
Benefits And Perks To Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – 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%
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life 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
