Director, Hotel Market Analytics

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Director, Hotel Market Analytics

Introduction to team

The Traveler Business Team has a mission to deliver the most convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world. This division has responsibility to build and drive the growth of our global consumer business across our Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands, and across all our lines of businesses including Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech. 

This team focuses on Hotel Regional Analytics and Strategic Initiatives Analysis. They support the Hotel Market Partnership (HMP) Leadership Team by analyzing business trends, deriving insights, and using facts to guide key strategic and operational decisions. By leveraging data coming from demand trends, supply quality and sales operations, the team develops analysis and reporting, advising leaders on how to optimize their operations and maximize impact for our travelers and hotel partners. 

   

In this role you will:

• Align data insights into overarching organizational strategies, shaping business objectives and fostering innovation.

• Drive agenda/work/priorities on all aspects of Hotel Market analytics activities

• End-to-end ownership of projects/analysis leveraging multiple teams’ inputs and data to guide key actions across the organization

• Lead a team of 14 people including 2 Sr. Managers, focused on (1) Hotel Regional Analytics and (2) Strategic Initiatives Analytics

• Act as Business Partner to the Hotel Market Partnership Senior VP and the rest of the LT through stellar business acumen and strong ability to convert best-in-class analysis into actionable insights

• Work closely and efficiently with other partnering teams across Analytics, Product, Brands, Strategy, Finance, etc.

• Collaborates with Data Engineering and Product Management teams to drive implementation and adoption of best practices across the EG data community.

Experience and qualifications:

• You hold a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Mathematics, Science, Statistics or a similar Technical field. Relevant experience is also applicable

• A significant tenure of working experience, including several as a team leader in Analytics (ideally in lodging industry)

• Stellar ability to simplify complex business problems and simply communicate key insights to a non-technical audience

• Ability to efficiently review and prioritize, whilst supporting your team throughout their work delivery and building and maintaining solid relationships of trust with senior leaders across partnering organizations (Strategy, Product, Finance, Marketing, Commercial Operations, Analytics...)

• Proven working experience in leading transformative operational excellence projects from an analytical front

• Applied knowledge of SQL and familiarity of Python, Scala or R, or any other major ML programming language

• Strong domain knowledge, business acumen and critical reasoning skills

• Experienced in the fundamentals of big data architecture and relational database models.

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