Capacity Planning Analyst
Permanent contract
Salary from £50,247 + £1,100 flex allowance + up to 15% bonus + benefits.
The Capacity Planning Analyst plays a critical role in shaping the airport’s long‑term capacity planning by delivering high‑quality analytical insight and modelling. This role drives continuous improvement across airfield and terminal operations, ensuring that infrastructure, resources, and processes are optimised to meet current and future demand.
Using advanced mathematical, statistical and simulation‑based modelling techniques, the Capacity Planning Analyst provides evidence‑based recommendations that support key strategic decisions. The role works collaboratively with operational and commercial teams to deepen the maturity of capacity tools, enhance data accuracy and identify opportunities for improved productivity, resilience and passenger experience.
Ultimately, this role ensures that the airport has a clear, analytically robust understanding of its growth potential, infrastructure constraints and operational risks, enabling leaders to plan confidently for the future.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for designing and building analytical airfield & terminal models that influence the airport’s strategic decision making.
- Drive continuous productivity improvement across infrastructure.
- Leverage use of tools to automate reporting.
- Help to support optimisation of resource and infrastructure and strategic decision making through mathematical, simulation and optimisation modelling.
- Consolidate data to enable critical analysis.
- Provide insight on future growth potential and impact.
- Use statistical analysis to drive performance.
Qualifications
- Background in programming, e.g. VBA / Python.
- A high aptitude for problem solving.
- Experience in building mathematical models of real-world scenarios.
- Strong IT skills particularly using Excel and Tableau, with the ability to find new ways to present and visualise data.
- Proven track record in extracting key insights from data and making meaningful recommendations.
- Strong communication skills to effectively communicate technical results to key stakeholders.
- Methodical mindset with strong awareness of the operational and commercial impacts of decision making.
- Experience in OR and optimisation tools is desirable.
- Airport modelling experience such as CAST/ ArcPORT/ AirTOp is essential.
Benefits
We value our people and reward every employee fairly with a highly competitive package, enhanced by a discretionary annual bonus. In addition, we offer free staff parking, discounted rail travel to work, share matching scheme and a wide range of flexible benefits you can tailor to the things that matter to you most.
There are also plenty of opportunities for career progression, as well as training to support your personal and professional development. London Gatwick is just 30 minutes from central London and directly linked to over 100 towns and cities, and offers convenient transport options for cycling, electric cars, and trains.
Equal Opportunity
At London Gatwick, we are an organisation that places diversity, equity and inclusion at its heart. We aim to create a place where everyone belongs and has a voice, and we recognise we all play an important role in our success.
London Gatwick supports an inclusive recruitment process, enabling you to perform at your best. Please make us aware as part of your application should you require any reasonable adjustments. We welcome disabled applicants.
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