Sr Manager, Lost Time Administration and Strategy

Intro
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
Why you'll love this job
The role operates within the Operations Administration team in the Customer and Operational Excellence organization, shaping scalable solutions that deliver systemwide impact. This role builds and manages a centralized attendance and lost‑time administration program supporting Airports, Contact Centers, and Inflight Dining, ensuring consistent processes and reliable workforce operations across a large frontline population. It partners closely with Labor, the People Team, operational leaders, and support groups to drive enterprise‑wide improvements while leading the evolution of policies, processes, and technologies that strengthen workforce reliability, enhance the employee experience, and support cost discipline.
What You'll Do
As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
Lead overall lost time strategy for Airport, Contact Centers, and Inflight Dining Operations, including leaves of absence and attendance policy
Define performance standards, strategic solutions, and success metrics to ensure the program scales effectively across hubs, stations, and contact centers.
Monitor system‑level trends and outcomes, adjusting strategy and resourcing approaches as needed to sustain results
Set the long‑term vision for attendance, leave, and case‑management tools, partnering with IT, Workforce Applications, and Product teams to define roadmaps and enterprise requirements.
Leverage analytics, automation, and AI‑enabled capabilities to shift the organization toward proactive, exception‑based lost time management.
Ensure executive‑level reporting and insights that clearly articulate drivers, risks, and opportunities across Airports and Reservations
Collaborate with Labor, Legal and local subject matter experts to evaluate policy changes, mitigate risk, and align attendance practices with contractual and regulatory requirements
Serve as the escalation point for complex, high‑risk, or precedent‑setting attendance and leave matters
Lead and influence a decentralized team, ensuring alignment, accountability, and consistent execution across multiple management layers
Design and oversee a centralized lost time operating model capable of supporting high transaction volumes across calls, emails, system workflows, and case management activities
Collaborate with Airport and Contact Centers senior leadership to align lost time strategies with operational priorities, service reliability, and workforce engagement goals
Partner with Safety and People team to reduce employee injuries and support return to work initiatives
Partner with Workforce Applications team to set the long-term vision for tools impacting the administration of attendance policies for airport workgroups
Travel as necessary
All you'll need for success
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
Bachelor's degree or Master's degree or equivalent experience/training
7 years of prior managerial experience or relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
Demonstrated success leading enterprise‑level attendance, workforce, or compliance programs across large, distributed, or unionized organizations
Experience working with and presenting to senior leadership
Deep familiarity with attendance policy administration, collective bargaining agreements, and regulated labor environments
Experience partnering with Labor Relations, Legal, HR, and Safety on complex policy and compliance matters
Skills, Licenses & Certifications
Ability to lead projects that impact multiple business units
Ability to build consensus among workgroups on necessary changes
Creative thinker and problem solver
Ability to work effectively under pressure, manage multiple assignments and shift priorities as required, within a fast-paced, dynamic work environments
Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle
What You'll Get
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
Feel free to be yourself at American
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20 Team Member Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.