Senior Business Analyst, Traveller & Trading Analytics

Do you want to make a difference in a global Technology & Travel company? Join us at Expedia Group on our Traveler-centric journey and use your Analytical expertise to enable us to optimally use all available demand signals. In doing so, you will contribute to positively impact our Traveler’s experience and ensure that they build great memories from the trips they take with Expedia Group.

 The Data Scientist II of Traveler and Trading will be part of a larger team of 4 people reporting to the Senior Manager of Core Operations Analytics. This person will be responsible to analyze and report across all aspects related to Trading performance and Traveler dynamics. One part of the job consists in leveraging data coming from internal/external demand trends, booking behavior and market research to uncover new business opportunities in terms of supply products or operational approach. Another part of the job would consist in designing, building, launching, and maintaining the Traveler and Trading Reporting Suite that will power the Sales leaders and Market Manager with the adequate level of insights to make the best strategic and operational decision on how to approach their regions.

The successful candidate will build on deep functional expertise to develop state-of-the-art models, products. They will own the source-of-truth traveler/trading infrastructure, monitor market trends, and proactively provide recommendations on how to leverage the analytical insights. If you are self-driven and have demonstrated success in using analytics & data science to drive innovation and user continuous improvement, then this position is for you! 

What you’ll do:

• Manage stakeholders with frequent communication and expectation management
• Frame business challenges as analytical problem and apply problem solving techniques to break it down into concrete set of analytical tasks
• Extract data from multiple data sources and combine them into the required datasets for model building or analytics
• Assess and evaluate the use of various methods when trying to solve a problem considering the underlying assumptions
• Articulate clearly and confidently decision-making rationale, methodology and recommendation to both technical and non-technical partners
• Be accountable to design, build and maintain the source-of-truth infrastructure and Tableau reporting suite covering the key Traveler and Trading insights
• Partner closely with your peers within the Core Operations Analytics team and the broader Lodging Analytics organization to ensure best practice sharing and build on each other work

Who you are:

• Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, or Equivalent Experience; Mathematics, Science, Statistics or Technical degree preferred otherwise relevant experience is applicable
• 2+ year of relevant experience in Analytics team working with large amount of data (ideally in Lodging or Online industries)
• Display strong domain knowledge, business acumen and critical reasoning skills
• Bias for action and ability to function independently with minimal direction 
• Excellent data visualization skills and proficiency using tools like Tableau/Power BI/…
• Experienced in the fundamentals of big data architecture (streaming events, data lakes, analytics engines) and relational database models.
• Applied knowledge of SQL and familiar with Python, R, or any other major ML programming language

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.

About Expedia Group 

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.  

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.