Senior Manager – Development & Airport Growth Strategy

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $110.1k - $146.2k / year

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Frontier Airlines

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1994

🚗 Transport

👥 B2C

Transport • B2C

Frontier Airlines is a U. S. -based low-cost commercial airline that operates scheduled passenger flights across domestic and select international routes. It provides online booking and trip management, a frequent-flyer program (FRONTIER Miles), ancillary services (bag fees, seat selection, bundles like Discount Den and GoWild Pass), co-branded credit card offers, and customer support and travel tools. The airline emphasizes cost-conscious travel, promotions and sustainability initiatives (branding as a green airline).

📋 Description

• Owns the strategic planning, prioritization, and delivery of Frontier’s airport growth, real estate, and infrastructure investment portfolio. • Directly manages a multi-airport portfolio, guides capital allocation decisions, and drives cross-functional alignment across Network Planning, Finance, Operations, Government Affairs, Facilities, and Airport Affairs. • Responsible for delivering measurable growth outcomes, assigned by station annually in partnership with internal stakeholder groups, including capacity expansion, cost optimization, and long-term real estate positioning. • Lead, architect, and govern cross-functional growth, cost-reduction, and capacity expansion strategies with direct impact on airport P&L and enterprise growth targets. • Serve as Frontier’s senior liaison with airport authorities, commercial partners, and government stakeholders, negotiating real estate, facilities access, and long-term growth positioning. • Consult and coordinate with internal stakeholders to streamline decision-making and maximize impact. • Co-own financial modeling, investment evaluation, and capital allocation decisions in partnership with FP&A to ensure returns meet Frontier’s cost and growth thresholds. • Partner with the Facilities team to drive high-impact airport infrastructure and facilities programs, ensuring alignment with Frontier’s goals and operational priorities. • Enhance communication systems to improve structured reporting to leadership and internal stakeholders for ongoing initiatives. • Own the development of airport growth targets, portfolio prioritization, financial evaluations and scenario analyses, ensuring resource allocation aligns with strategic growth plans. • Lead executive-level presentations, providing updates on program status, risks, and ROI to senior leadership. • Drive multi-year portfolio planning, integrating capacity, cost, regulatory, and operational considerations. • Lead negotiations related to airport use, facilities expansion, commercial terms, and long-term real estate positioning. • Establish and manage governance processes for airport development initiatives, ensuring executive visibility and alignment. • Provide strategic leadership and mentoring to analysts and cross-functional contributors.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Aviation Management, Finance, or relevant field of study. • Minimum of 6 years of experience in business development, aviation/airport strategy, infrastructure delivery, consulting, or capital program management. • Experience in transportation, airline, or aviation-related field preferred. • Experience leading cross-functional teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. • Preference to candidates with experience negotiating commercial, real estate, and airport agreements. • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. • Executive presence and ability to influence senior leadership. • Ability to lead through ambiguity and make independent, data-driven decisions with enterprise impact. • Expertise in structuring complex, multi-year business cases and negotiating agreements. • Proven track record of strong decision making, problem solving and conflict resolution skills. • Demonstrated experience in developing and fostering internal and external relationships. • Strong leadership presence with the capability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with focus on results. • Experience in creating and delivering effective presentations. • Solid understanding and performance of financial analysis. • Strong organizational and time management skills. • Proficiency with business intelligence and data visualization tools is preferred. • Ability to travel on company-supported initiatives up to 40% of the time.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flight benefits for you and your family to fly on Frontier Airlines. • Buddy passes for your friends so they can experience what makes us so great. • Discounts throughout the travel industry on hotels, car rentals, cruises and vacation packages. • Discounts on cell phone plans, movie tickets, restaurants, luggage and over 2,000 other vendors. • Enjoy a ‘Dress for your Day’ business casual environment. • Flexible work schedules that support work/life balance. • Total Rewards program including a competitive base salary, short term incentives, long-term incentives, paid holidays, 401(k) plan, vacation/sick time and medical/dental/vision insurance that begins the 1st of the month following your hire date. • The HOPE League, Frontier Airlines’ non-profit organization, is dedicated to providing employees financial assistance during catastrophic hardship.