RwandAir Ltd is the flag carrier airline of Rwanda. It operates domestic and international services to East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East from its main base at Kigali International Airport. Our mission is to provide unsurpassed, safe, and reliable services in air transportation, including strategically linking Rwanda with the outside world while ensuring a fair return on investment. As part of the expansion strategy, we are looking for interested, qualified, and competent candidates to fill the following position:
- Job Title: Supervisor, Cargo Planning, PRM & Scheduling.
- Reports to: Manager Cargo Network Planning & PRM
- Department: Cargo, Commercial
- Duty Station: Kigali International Airport (KIA)
Job Purpose
To overlook all RwandAir’s networks and ensure competitive cargo rates and pricing support are in place, promote cargo sales, and maximise network cargo revenues and yield. To evaluate and integrate the freighter schedule with the passenger network schedule to provide all possible cargo connectivity on all WB’s networks.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitor and control all pricing, inventory control and schedules to deliver expected yields, revenue and cargo uplift & revenue targets;
- Planning of 2-3-year Airline schedules with close consideration of cost and revenue forecasts.
- Review all monthly cargo uplift reports from all stations and confirm is actual approved rates have been applied.
- Coordinate and review daily cargo warehouse invoices generated on the previous day and make sure all the reconciliations with finance in done on a daily and timely basis.
- Manage all cargo warehouse terminal rates are clearly filled in the system and all the invoices are checked against the approved rates.
- Review and implement cargo scheduling, pricing, revenue management actions to respond to various market activities.
- Evaluate market dynamics, consumer price sensitivity, and market demand and respond in due time to prevent any revenue loss that could be caused by untimely response.
- To plan and optimize equipment and capacity based on demand/seasonality
- Guide the cargo pricing, cargo space control and cargo scheduling team to enhance productivity and efficiency of the unit;
- Responsible for doing cargo departments annual budget for both cargo uplifts and revenues as well as expenditure budget.
- Develop traffic, yield, and revenue evaluations of various price scenarios.
- Implement changes to pricing structures consistent with the company’s business plan.
- Filing of all WB’s rate levels into cargo system and ensure rates are available in all channels and conform to all government regulations of different markets;
- To optimize as much O&D connections as possible and plan reliable ground times and bock times.
- Ensuring pricing structures are continuously monitored, benchmarked and develop to maintain a competitive price.
- Participate in the identification and development of new business opportunities for revenue growth (SPA’s, Codeshares, commercial agreements/partnerships)
- Assist in planning, negotiating and implementing special prorate agreements with other carriers and set competitive fares to boost WB’s revenue;
- To ensure accurate and correct schedules are displayed (including MCTs and City pairs) in the systems.
- Detailed understanding of pricing decisions and key levers used by pricing.
- To produce schedule performance reports (competition skeds, utilization, block times analysis, transit/connecting cargo and schedule reliability)
- To plan and communicate to stakeholders short and medium-term schedules to stakeholders
- To plan and communicate to stakeholders any ad hoc schedule changes due to various reasons
- To plan and optimize aircraft utilization
- To plan maintenance requirements
- To monitor and report on competition, schedules and capacity
- To effectively plan for charter and other ad hoc operations
- To distribute schedule information/bulletins both internally and externally
- To manage a reliable day-to-day operational schedule in liaison with operational Desired.
- Evaluate and develop local corporate deal frameworks to ensure RwandAir’s competitive position within the corporate travel market.
- Using various electronic data sources and input from local sales offices, assess competitor activity, recommend and prepare competitive responses to retain market share and optimise revenue.
Desired Profile: Required education, Experience, and Abilities
- Degree in one of the following areas; Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Accounting and any other quantitatively oriented disciplines;
- At least 2-4 years of work experience in airline planning, Revenue management or any other planning and budgeting domains in different recognized institutions.
- Understanding of the airline industry’s competitive and regulatory environments.
- Business/commercial/revenue management/planning experience.
- Familiarity with the company’s internal systems and processes.
- Ability to work on multiple tasks, prioritizes work, handle heavy workloads, and meet tight deadlines.
- Analytical approach to problem-solving.
- Strong leadership, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- High level of accuracy, details and ownership would drive increased results.
- Basic Computer Skills
How to apply:
- An application letter addressed to Director, Human Resources;
- Recent Curriculum Vitae;
- Relevant certificates;
- A photocopy of Rwanda’s national identity card;
- Three referees
The deadline for submitting your applications is on March 22, 2023. Please send your application to recruitment@rwandair.com
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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