Analyst - Business & Portfolio Optimization
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Description
Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.
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Key Responsibilities:
The Analyst – Business & Portfolio Optimization supports the sourcing and governance processes for Corporate Real Estate Planning & Development projects. Working under the guidance of the Manager and in partnership with project teams, this role assists with preparing sourcing materials, organizing vendor responses, and maintaining accurate documentation throughout the sourcing lifecycle.
The Analyst contributes to the efficient execution of RFPs, contract workflows, and vendor coordination by performing detailed analytical and administrative tasks. This role is highly detail oriented, process focused, and ideal for someone who is developing foundational sourcing and procurement skills while supporting a high-volume project environment.
Proposal Gatekeeping & Support: Participate in all sourcing events including RFP development, bid distribution, proposal intake, and evaluation, ensuring adherence to sourcing guidelines and project requirements.
- Vendor Coordination: Support vendor management activities, including performance tracking, compliance monitoring, onboarding, and maintaining accurate vendor database records.
- Contract & Sourcing Execution: Assist in contract reviews and negotiations, including coordinating revisions with vendors and internal stakeholders (e.g. Legal & risk). Ensure compliance with sourcing policies and procedures.
- Process Improvement & Risk Mitigation: Identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance templates, improve data integrity, and increase sourcing transparency.
- Performance Metrics: Maintain sourcing documentation and governance artifacts, ensuring version control, audit readiness, and consistency across contracts, proposals, and sourcing templates.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with project teams to gather requirements, clarify scopes, and ensure sourcing timelines and deliverables align with project needs.
Note: This is a Chicago-based hybrid role with in-office requirements 50% of the time. This role will also be required to travel up to 30% of the time.
Qualifications
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Construction Management, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in sourcing, vendor management, project management, or large-scale capital project environments
- Knowledge of construction industry request for proposals (RFPs), construction evaluation criteria, contracting best practices, contract terms, negotiations, and risk management
- Strong data analysis capabilities
- Ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders effectively
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
- Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
- PMP, CCM, Six Sigma
- Knowledge of request for proposals, construction evaluation criteria contracting best practice, delivery method, etc. from an owner’s perspective
- Experience with procurement or project management systems
- Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills
- Demonstrates an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of generative AI tools and effectively leverages them to support research, analysis, content creation, and problem-solving. Apply critical thinking to validate AI-generated outputs while adhering to organizational policies for responsible AI use, data privacy, and security.
United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.
The base pay range for this role is $66,500.00 to $86,616.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.
United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact JobAccommodations@united.com