Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site
$125k–$150k/yr
Unison Consulting, Inc., a Paslay Group company, has spent more than 37 years helping airports navigate their most complex challenges. From finance and economics to concessions and strategic planning, we've advised over …
Skills: Financial Modeling, Concessions Planning, Revenue Optimization, Lease Negotiation, Space Planning
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Design and implement airport concession programs, including financial models, space plans, and operator selection criteria. Manage the end-to-end planning process from solicitation and lease negotiation to delivering final reports for senior leadership.
Requires a bachelor's degree and over 7 years of experience in F&B and retail concession planning for large commercial venues. Must possess strong financial modeling skills and expertise in the full lifecycle of vendor solicitation and contract negotiation.
Unison Consulting, Inc., a Paslay Group company, has spent more than 37 years helping airports navigate their most complex challenges. From finance and economics to concessions and strategic planning, we've advised over 150 airports, including 18 of the 25 busiest within the U.S., and earned a reputation for bringing genuinely new thinking to an industry that rewards it. That reputation is built entirely by our people: curious, driven, and unafraid to challenge how things have always been done.
Shape what millions of travelers experience before they fly
Every coffee grabbed before a red-eye, every sit-down meal between connections, every last-minute gift bought at the gate is part of an airport's concessions program - and it's one of the biggest levers an airport has to grow non-aeronautical revenue while making the passenger experience better. As Director of Concessions Planning at Unison, you decide how that program comes together.
Working alongside our team supporting Chicago O'Hare and Midway, you'll design the concession programs that shape what travelers see, eat, and buy - and the financial models that prove those programs work. When an airport needs to know which mix of quick-serve, casual dining, and retail will maximize revenue and delight passengers, or how to structure a lease that protects the airport and attracts strong operators, your analysis and recommendations are what leadership acts on.
What you'll do
What you bring
Why Unison
We want you to realize your full potential - real impact on the work, real space for personal growth. We believe in empowering our people to be innovators, and it shows: our average employee tenure is close to 20 years. People come here and build careers.
Our principals and senior staff have held leadership roles at major airports, airlines, and the FAA, and they stay hands-on with every engagement. You'll work alongside them as a recognized expert, with the autonomy to own your analysis and shape how the work gets done. We're guided by principles we actually live by: Excellence, Passion, Loyalty to Clients, Stewardship, Family, Community, Sustainability, and Inclusion.
The Details
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Physical & Environmental Requirements
While performing this role, you must have ordinary ambulatory skills to move around the office and visit other locations. You should be able to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate light to medium weights (10-50 pounds). Good hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and visual acuity are required for keyboard work and reading technical documentation. You will frequently sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and listen.
Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
Unison Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
Unison Consulting will provide reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Enabling the Complex Business of Airports since 1989
Unison is a leading airport consulting firm whose focus is on improving airport operations and profitability. Unison Consulting offers services in the following major practice areas: > Airport Finance and Economics > Airport Retail Concessions Planning and Management > Information Systems and Dashboards > Program Management and Control Services > Passenger, Market and Industry Research and Surveys The firm’s has completed well over 500 engagements for more than 100 client airports, large and small. Due to our expertise and our focus on excellence, Unison forges long-term relationships with many of our clients, and has served most of the major airports in the nation. Unison’s professional consultants are well-known experts with over 150 years of industry expertise. Prior to forming Unison in 1989, the firm’s founding members held senior positions at leading airports, with airlines, the FAA, and other national aviation consulting firms. Unison is DBE, MBE, and SBE certified in multiple jurisdictions.
Offices: 150 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 2930, Chicago, IL 60601, US · 111 West Port Plaza, 6th Floor, St. Louis, MO 63146, US · 23461 South Pointe Drive, Suite 185, Laguana Hill , CA 92653, US
Enabling the Complex Business of Airports since 1989
Unison is a leading airport consulting firm whose focus is on improving airport operations and profitability. Unison Consulting offers services in the following major practice areas: > Airport Finance and Economics > Airport Retail Concessions Planning and Management > Information Systems and Dashboards > Program Management and Control Services > Passenger, Market and Industry Research and Surveys The firm’s has completed well over 500 engagements for more than 100 client airports, large and small. Due to our expertise and our focus on excellence, Unison forges long-term relationships with many of our clients, and has served most of the major airports in the nation. Unison’s professional consultants are well-known experts with over 150 years of industry expertise. Prior to forming Unison in 1989, the firm’s founding members held senior positions at leading airports, with airlines, the FAA, and other national aviation consulting firms. Unison is DBE, MBE, and SBE certified in multiple jurisdictions.
Offices: 150 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 2930, Chicago, IL 60601, US · 111 West Port Plaza, 6th Floor, St. Louis, MO 63146, US · 23461 South Pointe Drive, Suite 185, Laguana Hill , CA 92653, US