Sr. Advisor Airport Strategy & Development in the Netherlands

As an Airport Planner Terminal, you will help shape the future of Schiphol. You translate the strategic ambitions of Schiphol into integrated and achievable development directions and bring together business, operations, technology, and space. You develop and weigh solution directions and make complex issues concrete and decidable. How exactly you realize this? That is up to you. We trust in the way you perform your work carefully and with an eye for quality, always striving for the best result. You will apply your talents to:

• developing integrated airport plans, such as the Master Plan, Mid Term Plan, and Area Development Plans that provide direction to the development of Schiphol towards 2035 and 2050.
• carrying out scenario, alternatives, and feasibility studies for terminal development, whereby you assess terminal processes, capacity, flows, and spatial layout in conjunction and translate complex strategic issues into substantiated solution directions and clear choices.
• guiding development initiatives from planning to decision-making towards DG1, whereby you, together with Business Owners, ensure an integrated assessment of value, risks, costs, quality, and feasibility, and advise governance bodies on these matters.
• connecting and constructively challenging internal and external stakeholders and advisors, bringing together different interests and expertise to achieve supported choices and progress.
• monitoring the coherence between initiatives and the portfolio by setting priorities, making dependencies and phasing transparent, and weighing claims on capacity and space against the long-term development of Schiphol.

You will work on development initiatives within the Terminal Cluster and guide these in the planning and pre-DG1 phase. In doing so, you can guide multiple terminal initiatives simultaneously, depending on size and complexity. In this role, you are at the heart of strategic decision-making and work closely with Business Owners, operational experts, technical specialists, external stakeholders, and advisors to provide direction to investments and development choices with impact well beyond 2050.

• You will work on the spatial and operational development of one of Europe's largest airports. Here, your analyses and choices directly influence how Schiphol develops towards 2035 and 2050 for passengers, airlines, and operations.
• This team is known for connecting strategy and execution. Together, we bring complex interests together and translate large ambitions into concrete plans that truly provide direction to the future of Schiphol. In this way, we determine not only the target on the horizon, but also which steps are necessary to get there.
• At Schiphol, we work every day on innovation and improvement. In this way, we keep the Netherlands moving and create thousands of jobs and opportunities for people.

Schiphol connects your world. With the best people, we make travel safe and responsible. You contribute to this with your unique talents, such as the way you smoothly build strong bonds with others, are always open to new ideas, and act without prejudice. In any case, for this position you have:

• university or applied sciences (wo/hbo) level of work and thinking.
• education preferably in Architecture, Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Management, or a similar relevant field.
• demonstrable knowledge of terminal processes, capacity, flows, and spatial layout, gained within an airport or a similar complex environment.
• 5-10 years of relevant work experience with complex development and planning issues.
• demonstrable experience with structuring complex issues and strategic advising.