Job Details
Salary: £26,255
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours
Location: VHQ, Crawley, hybrid 2 days a week and 1 day a week in Heathrow
Contract: Fixed Term Contract 24 months
Closing Date: 20th July 2025
In a nutshell
If you love making sense of numbers, uncovering insights from data, and want to start your career where no two days are the same — this is your chance to join Virgin Atlantic’s Cargo team as a Strategy & Planning Analyst Apprentice. You'll be at the heart of how we understand our markets, support strategic decisions, and help drive growth across our global cargo operation. This is more than just an entry-level role — it’s a launchpad into the world of commercial strategy, analytics, and aviation.Day to day
- Support the delivery of data-led insights to shape commercial cargo decisions
- Help forecast revenue performance across routes, regions and key customers
- Create tools, dashboards and reports to make data accessible and actionable
- Analyse industry trends, macroeconomic drivers and competitive landscapes
- Collaborate with Revenue Management, Sales, Operations, and Contact Centre teams
- Contribute to the development of predictive models and KPI frameworks
- Work on projects that assess new opportunities or optimise existing practices
- Continuously evolve data workflows and propose enhancements to systems
About you
- Curious, analytical, and eager to understand the “why” behind the numbers
- Enjoy solving problems and have strong attention to detail
- Comfortable working with numbers
- Collaborative and enjoy working as part of a team
- Confident communicating with a range of audiences
- Organised, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities
- Familiar with Excel and open to learning tools like Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, SQL
- Ideally educated to GCSE level in a numerical field
- Passionate about data, delivering insights, logistics, or all the above!
Internal info
Hiring manager: Jamie R WatsonGlobal grade: A
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Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.