About this role
Company Overview
ATSG is a leading provider of air cargo transportation and related services.
Our customers are domestic and foreign air carriers and other companies that outsource their air cargo lift requirements. We, through our leasing and airline subsidiaries, are the world's largest owner and operator of converted Boeing 767 freighter aircraft.
Through our principal subsidiaries, including three airlines with separate and distinct U.S. FAA Part 121 Air Carrier certificates, we provide aircraft leasing, air cargo lift, passenger ACMI and charter services, aircraft maintenance services and airport ground services.
Position Summary
The Program Management Analyst, Value Creation will build and operate the management infrastructure that turns ATSG's value creation portfolio into a reliable, decision-ready operating system. This individual-contributor role combines portfolio controls, project-management discipline, financial and operational analytics, executive reporting, and persistent follow-through. The Program Analyst owns the integrity and operation of the portfolio-management system; business leaders and assigned project managers own delivery, and Finance owns independent validation and confirmation of value.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio governance and source-of-truth controls
• Support governance of enterprise value-creation initiatives through stage-gate reviews, decision tracking, action management, and executive escalation processes.
• Monitor portfolio performance, identify risks and dependencies, and maintain accurate initiative status information.
• Ensure consistency, integrity, and quality of portfolio management data, controls, and governance practices.
Portfolio analytics and executive reporting
• Develop executive-level presentations, scorecards, dashboards, and reporting materials that support informed business decisions.
• Prepare executive summaries, leadership updates, governance meeting materials, and decision-support documentation.
• Analyze operational and financial data using advanced analytical tools to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and performance results.
Portfolio analytics and executive reporting
• Develop executive-level presentations, scorecards, dashboards, and reporting materials that support informed business decisions.
• Prepare executive summaries, leadership updates, governance meeting materials, and decision-support documentation.
• Analyze operational and financial data using advanced analytical tools to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and performance results.
Stage-gate and project controls
• Maintain integrated project plans, milestones, schedules, dependencies, critical paths, and RAID logs across multiple initiatives.
• Track initiative progress and execution risks to ensure alignment with approved objectives and timelines.
• Support project governance activities and stage-gate requirements throughout the initiative lifecycle.
Value reconciliation and Finance coordination
• Perform financial analysis related to value-creation initiatives, including forecasts, savings realization, EBITDA impact, and variance reporting.
• Coordinate with Finance and business stakeholders to validate assumptions and support benefits tracking.
• Evaluate and communicate recurring and non-recurring financial impacts to support accurate performance measurement.
Operating cadence, actions, and escalation
• Coordinate governance routines, executive reviews, and portfolio operating cadences.
• Follow up with initiative leaders and stakeholders to monitor commitments, track action items, and ensure timely completion of deliverables.
• Escalate material risks, issues, and decision requirements to appropriate leadership levels.
Process improvement, automation, and business partnership
• Identify opportunities to improve portfolio management processes, reporting capabilities, and governance effectiveness.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to improve data quality, reporting consistency, and operational performance.
• Apply critical thinking and business judgment to challenge assumptions, resolve issues, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in project or program management, consulting delivery, finance analytics, operations analytics, transformation, enterprise PMO, or portfolio management.
• Strong understanding of workplans, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, decision logs, stage gates, governance, and program analytics.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accurate portfolio information, and deliver high-quality work to established deadlines.
• Demonstrated financial orientation, including baselines, forecast versus actual, in-year benefit, run rate, one-time versus recurring value, and variance analysis.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive writing and the ability to convert complex portfolio information into a clear leadership narrative.
• Professional persistence, credibility, organization, sound judgment, and the ability to constructively challenge stakeholders and drive actions to closure without direct authority.
• Ability to distinguish facts from inference, identify forecast optimism, weak ownership, missing dependencies, data-quality concerns, and value at risk.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups, data cleansing, and large-data-set analysis; Power Query proficiency is strongly desired.
• Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint with demonstrated ability to produce concise, executive-quality presentations.
• Working Microsoft Power BI capability, including data modeling, dashboard development, visualization, and recurring report maintenance.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 collaboration and workflow tools such as SharePoint, Teams, Forms, Power Automate, and related solutions.
• Ability to learn and administer portfolio workflow applications, including Maestro or comparable platforms, while maintaining ATSG-owned data and process controls.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in a transformation office, value creation office, enterprise PMO, management consulting, FP&A, business operations, or strategy / operations analytics role.
• Experience building or improving a portfolio operating system, authoritative initiative ledger, stage-gate process, executive scorecard, or benefits-realization process.
• Power Query, Power BI data modeling, workflow automation, or Microsoft Power Platform experience.
• Experience preparing materials for executive leadership, steering committees, Boards, or sponsor reviews.
• Aviation, airline, aircraft maintenance, logistics, industrial operations, or multi-business enterprise experience.
• Ability to design the process and control model before selecting technology, with a practical bias toward simple, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• High drive coupled with low ego, enterprise mindset, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and comfort operating in a changing environment.