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FlixTrain, one of Europe's fastest-growing rail operators, is seeking a Head of Commercial Network Planning to shape the future of mobility. You will own commercial network planning end-to-end: from demand forecasting and expansion strategy to annual timetable planning.
Key Responsibilities:
Offer & Demand Strategy: Develop reliable demand and revenue forecasts, continuously improve forecasting models with your team, and ensure decisions are grounded in sound assumptions.
Strategic Network & Expansion Planning: Create target network scenarios, assess economic viability, and provide recommendations for expansion, fleet strategy, and long-term investments.
Capacity & Offer Design: Define commercial parameters for annual timetables, ensuring capacity, traffic intensity, and seasonal factors are aligned with operational planning.
Revenue Planning & Monitoring: Own revenue forecasting, develop early-warning monitoring systems to detect deviations, and maintain clean interfaces with yield management and pricing teams.
Team Leadership & Development: Build and develop a team of analysts and offer planners, fostering analytical rigor and a learning-oriented culture.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with operational offer planning, yield/pricing, public affairs, and marketing to align supply, demand, regulation, and customer segments.
Required Experience:
Multiple years at a top-tier management or strategy consulting firm, bringing structured problem-solving and analytical rigor. Proven success building analytical models and tools for data-driven decision-making. Strong persuasion and stakeholder management skills across organizational levels. Demonstrated leadership experience building and developing analytically strong teams. Understanding of mobility behavior and transport mode choice. Experience in rail long-distance or aviation offer planning, plus regulatory knowledge, is advantageous but not required.
FlixTrain values entrepreneurial thinking, analytical strength, and leadership capability. The role offers a dynamic, international environment where your ideas have real impact on a high-growth European rail operator.
