Summary: Join a team responsible for Network planning activities, including budget, 5-year strategy, and monitoring network performance, while evaluating new strategic directions. Highlights: 1. Design and implement 5-year Network Strategy. 2. Perform economic analysis for new route opportunities. 3. Develop and enhance Network Planning systems. MAIN OBJECTIVES To be a member of a team which is responsible for Gulf Air's Network planning activities including annual budget and designing 5\-year Network Strategy that covers hub structure, fleet usage, route presence, Origin \& Destination planned to capture. To support in monitoring network performance, capacity/frequency and timing of specific flights. To evaluate prepare business cases with supporting analysis and economic justifications for the company new strategic directions. MAIN DUTIES 1\.Assist in evaluating current and future network plans. 2\.Responsible for providing to executive management detailed analysis concerning the company's route traffic market conditions, competitors. 3\.Develop and enhance systems, analyze, and communicate traffic and revenue data on regular basis, to assist in the development of the most suitable management information systems in coordination's with departments concerned. 4\.Control multiple assumptions within complex scenarios that need to be evaluated and examined to conclude the optimal with the highest commercial return to the business. 5\.Monitor, analyze and report on route performance and recommend changes to the current routes and sectors. 6\.Perform economic analysis of any new route opportunities and progress to a business case to be presented to executive management that includes your recommendations. 7\.Recommend short\-term product changes to improve performance. 8\.Provide key resource areas with key statistics to aid their future planning. 9\.Develop high level plans and impact of all competitors. 10\.Responsible for providing to executive management reporting concerning the company's route Profitability and Performance, traffic, and market conditions. 11\.Develop and enhance Network Planning systems. Some of the tools maybe and not limited to (Profit Manager, Market Intelligence Solution (DDS/MIDT, SRS Analyzer) to analyze and communicate traffic and revenue data on regular basis, to assist in the development of the most suitable management information systems in coordination's with departments concerned. 12\.Critically examine alternatives for cost benefit analysis. 13\.Discuss, explain, and analyze scenario evaluation for business cases while deciding upon acquiring new fleet or opening new routes and stations or increasing the frequency of flights in a particular sector. 14\.Review and resolve issues related to interfaces of Commercial Planning systems with other systems within the company. 15\.Assist in handling Charter flights operation, including (quotation, Negotiation, agreement, implementation and managing the clients. EDUCATION University degree in Management \& Economics or Statistics or equivalent professional qualification preferred. EXPERIENCE Minimum 2 years of experience in a responsible position in planning or marketing in an international airline or equivalent organization. High level of knowledge and understanding of Finance/Network systems is essential.