Analytics Principal

Company Description

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

Our Data Team has embarked on an exciting phase of transformation, they work across all parts of our digital business. 

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it? 

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere. 

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.

Job Description

What you’ll do: 

This is your opportunity to grow at the intersection of Data, Digital, Product, Technology and human behavioral change to be a big part of something big.

• Share expertise to define carsales' Retail team's analytical approaches underpinning product performance and development, data commercialisation, data-enabled partnerships and commercial outcomes.
• Develop and support solutions that deliver end-to-end data products and direct the lifecycle of complex solutions.
• Collaborate and connect with teams across Data, Retail, Product and Technology to deliver on decision-support and data commercialisation initiatives as a data SME.
• Understand and agree to the medium-term (~3-12 month) plans in Retail and Product and break these down into quarterly OKRs that can be executed by smaller teams.
• Share expertise to grow and deliver as a key leader within the Data function, bringing best-in-industry analytical expertise in partnering with our Retail function whose opportunities are amongst the fastest growing in the business.
• Share expertise to perform advanced statistical modelling and analysis of structured and unstructured datasets to develop metrics, reports and visualizations of trends and patterns.
• Lead teams of 1-3 data specialists that deliver cross-functional work with business and technology teams.

Qualifications

What are we looking for? 

What are we looking for?

• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).
• Demonstrate understanding and expertise to advance our analytical solutions (e.g. machine learning, product development, digital analytics, cross-site performance optimisation) that enables carsales' Retail division's continued market leadership against a backdrop of evolving market conditions.
• Expertise in the application of quantitative methods and/or other developing econometric / statistical type solutions.
• Collaborative communication with visualisation tools and techniques to generate dashboards and outputs that aid in data storytelling, understanding and interpretation of trends and patterns of business importance.
• Collaborative skills to manage and solve complex trade-offs between business stakeholder needs and technical objectives, and a willingness to engage in conversations between groups.
• Skilled in two or more programming languages of their area of specialisation –– e.g. SQL, Python, Java, Scala and experience with cloud data platforms and analytic tools including – Snowflake, dbt, Thoughtspot, Tableau.

Additional Information

A few other things we want to let you know about... 

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. 
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask. 
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant. 
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.