Overview
Permanent contract. Salary from £50,247 + £1,100 flex allowance + up to 15% bonus + benefits.
Location & Work Model
This role follows an office‑first hybrid model at London Gatwick: three days a week in the office and two days remote, managed around business needs.
What is the role?
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. The 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 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, the analyst ensures that the airport has an analytically robust understanding of its growth potential, infrastructure constraints and operational risks, enabling leaders to plan confidently for the future.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and build analytical airfield and terminal models that influence the airport's strategic decision‑making.
* Drive continuous productivity improvement across infrastructure.
* Leverage tools to automate reporting.
* Support the optimisation of resources and infrastructure 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 or Python).
* High aptitude for problem solving.
* Experience building mathematical models of real‑world scenarios.
* Strong IT skills, particularly with Excel and Tableau, and the ability to create new ways to present and visualise data.
* Proven track record of extracting key insights from data and making actionable recommendations.
* Strong communication skills to explain technical results to stakeholders.
* A methodical mindset with awareness of operational and commercial impacts of decisions.
* Experience in operations research and optimisation tools is desirable.
* Experience with airport modelling tools such as CAST, ArcPORT or AirTOp is essential.
Benefits
Competitive package with discretionary annual bonus, free staff parking, discounted rail travel, share‑matching scheme and a range of flexible benefits that can be tailored to personal priorities. Opportunities for career progression and training are also available.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
London Gatwick is committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcomes disabled applicants. We support a recruitment process that enables all candidates to perform at their best.
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