Data Scientist II, Supply Engine Operations & Analytics

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Why Join Us?

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We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

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.

The Supply Engine Operations & Analytics team works to enhance operational excellence and drive commercial success of the sales channels (e.g. Account Management, Marketing). As a Senior Analyst within this team, you will play an important role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the Supply Engine and recommended commercial actions for supply partners by leveraging technology, processes, and data insights. Your role will include monitoring and optimizing processes, performance reporting, and delivering actionable insights to help drive the success of the sales channels.

In This Role You Will

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize the Supply Engine's operations to ensure alignment with established procedures and practices.
• Create, maintain, and enhance dashboards and reporting tools to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and assess performance (e.g., efficiency and effectiveness).
• Develop and execute SQL queries to extract, transform, and analyze data for operational and strategic insights.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support decision-making and align the Supply Engine with commercial goals across various channels.
• Identify bottlenecks in processes and proactively suggest improvements to improve efficiency, including opportunities for automation.
• Work autonomously to manage tasks and projects, while collaborating effectively within the team.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for processes, analyses, and tools to promote efficient collaboration and workflow within the core team, while ensuring transparency and accessibility for the broader organization.
  
  

Experience And Qualifications

• You hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent; or related professional experience.
• 4+ years of experience in analytics or a similar role, with an ability to deliver high-quality insights, manage data-driven processes and drive improvements in operational efficiency.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in SQL for data analysis, structuring, and transforming data; additional familiarity with Python or R is a plus.
• Well-versed in building and maintaining reports in Tableau or similar data visualization tools.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) and adept at picking up new systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and business acumen, with a proven ability to identify process inefficiencies and drive solutions that benefit the overall business the most.
• Excellent attention to detail, coupled with the ability to maintain a big-picture perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks and projects, while contributing to a collaborative team environment.
  
  

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