Principal Analyst Commercial and Fleet Strategy

Challenge yourself to lead the development of high-quality, accurate and high value insights for Commercial decision making
- Opportunity to grow and diversify your career
- Permanent Position based at our Mascot Corporate Campus

We’ve always been pioneers, and we’re proud to see that spirit in our people today. Our resilience has helped us through good and tough times, and it still drives us to keep pushing the challenging expectations today. We take a commercial mindset to all we do, ensuring we make strategic decisions that live up to customer expectations. It’s in us to be our best. We see it as our responsibility to take ownership and drive outcomes, ensuring we make a contribution to take the organisation forward.

In your new role as Principal Analyst Commercial and Fleet Strategy you will be responsible for leading Qantas Airlines’ commercial and fleet development alongside the network team, focusing on network profitability through strategic market and fleet planning. This includes managing long-term commercial strategies and initiatives, assessing aircraft deployment, and aligning capacity with demand. The role involves end-to-end strategy execution, stakeholder engagement across commercial and operational teams, and delivering data-driven business cases to support commercial and fleet decisions, including coordination with Jetstar to enhance dual-brand performance.

To be considered for this role you will have:

- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a commercially focused role, ideally within the aviation industry.
- Tertiary qualifications in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or Aviation.
- Strong understanding of airline operations, network development, and industry interdependencies.
- Proficient in macroeconomic modelling, financial forecasting, and preferably airline economics.
- Skilled in interpreting P&L statements and deriving cost estimates for current and proposed flying.
- High-level analytical skills with experience in taking large, disaggregated datasets and distilling them into actionable insights.
- Excellent attention to detail with the ability to interpret and present complex data accurately.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including preparation of business cases for senior leadership.
- Proven ability to lead projects, manage stakeholders, and deliver under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with advanced analytical tools such as Python, SQL and Power BI is preferred, but not essential.
- Why Qantas?_
- You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully._
- There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us - so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless._
- The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel._
- _ We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays._
- _ We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees._
- _ We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships._
- _ We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan._

Be a part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story - get in touch today.

Applications close on Friday 18th July 2025

About us

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic and international services.