Data Scientist III, Product & Technology Analytics

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Data Scientist III, Product & Technology Analytics 

Introduction to team

Private Label Solutions (PLS) is the B2B arm of Expedia Group. We bring Expedia Group’s innovative technology and distribution solutions to partners across the world. These businesses include global financial institutions, corporate managed travel, offline travel agents, global travel suppliers (like major airlines) and many more.

Private Label Solutions (PLS) leverages the best of the Expedia Group’s partner-facing APIs and Template products with a laser focus on B2B, powering thousands of partners around the world. As Expedia Group’s partner-focused arm, the PLS mission is to provide its partners with solutions to fuel their growth.  
  

PLS partners with businesses across a wide range of verticals, including loyalty programs, airlines, travel agents, corporate travel management companies and online retailers who remarket rates and availabilities to their travellers. Partners can access PLS products in the way that best suits their business, whether that is a fully customizable environment through PLS APIs, an ‘off-the-shelf’ white-label or cobranded template solution offering or its agent tools.  

PLS’s Rapid API, White Label Template and TAAP products power end-to-end hotel booking functionality for the world’s leading airlines, online travel agencies, and loyalty and membership programs. By providing access to over 700,000 properties across 250,000 destinations, Rapid enables partners to build a custom booking experience with easy integration, industry-leading supply, and competitive rates. 

As Data Scientist III, Product & Technology Analytics you will play a vital role in the future of our fast growing B2B business. You will be part of the Product & Technology Analytics team, guiding analytical thinking, contributing to the strategic direction, sizing revenue opportunities, and quantifying risks. 

You will help define our understanding of success drivers, evaluate commercial performance, and lead analysis on traffic, conversion and revenue drivers with detailed understanding of our partners’ business model, hotel and air supply, market trends and the industry. You will work with various teams across the company including Technology, Product, Sales, Finance and Analytics.  

You will have the opportunity to own and develop new insights, to drive new ways of working, to build something innovative and be part of an international team. 

The ideal candidate would have strong analytical & technical skills, paired with commercial acumen and strong communication skills, with an interest in technology & travel!

In this role, you will:

• You will own analysis, evaluate revenue opportunities and build business cases to ensure future growth of the business 

• You will participate in cross-divisional work partnering with Product and Tech teams representing analytics 

• You will perform deep-dive analysis and statistical tests to get to the bottom of performance drivers for our partners, provide recommendation for improvements and quantify results 

• You will build frameworks, create dashboards and design metrics to analyse performance and visualize insights 

• Communicate analysis findings and recommendations to various levels including organization leadership and external partners 

• You will represent the team in meetings, ensuring perspectives of the broader Analytics team are incorporated 

Experience and qualifications: 

• At least 5 years’ analytical experience in online travel, online retail, banking, or another data-intensive commercial environment 

• Firm understanding of revenue drivers and commercial environment 

• Strong understanding of marketing attribution methodologies and web analytics tools 

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex analysis in a format that is easily understandable for the target audience 

• Good understanding of statistics with ability to apply to commercial problem solving 

• Ability to analyse large amounts of data, ideally experience with SQL, R or similar language, with demonstrated skills in understanding conversion drivers in an online environment 

• Strong SQL skills, with ability to write SQL from scratch, and good understanding of databases. Web analytics experience preferred

• Experience with data visualization tools (i.e. Tableau) 

What you can expect: 

• Ability to innovate and create something new in one of the fastest growing divisions in Expedia Group 

• International work environment, being part of a global team 

• Exposure to various levels of internal and external stakeholders 

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