Advanced Data Insight Analyst III

Job Description

Love data and how it can inspire change to a company? Join our sales operations analytics team, working hand in hand with the Travel Partners Group Account Management organization, using analytics to drive outstanding sales performance for the global lodging business of Expedia Group.

At Expedia Group, Data and Analytics are the core of all our strategy and decisions. Be responsible for the impactful insights that guide and optimize our global sales performance. Your role will consist of querying sophisticated SQL-based databases, running detailed analyses (e.g. building predictive models), crafting reports and visualizing insights in an intuitive manner. Work closely with other highly skilled analysts across EG, supporting the TPG Account Management leaders with data driven insights.

This job is for you if you are comfortable in tackling sophisticated analytical problems while operating with minimal mentorship and are seeking a stimulating role within a fast-paced and fun business!

What you’ll do:

• Extract data from multiple data sources and combine into the required datasets for model building or analytics.
• Help in all activities, especially in proper model selection, regularization and evaluation to be able to develop robust solutions.
• Solidly understand hypothesis testing.
• Design sophisticated experiments and apply common methods such as linear and non-linear aggression, multivariate analysis.
• Build end-to-end design of models based on detailed understanding of business requirements, including general approach, choice of algorithm and data sources.
• Demonstrate business acumen (understanding the underlying business objectives) and critical reasoning skills.
• Challenge business processes recommending and developing solutions to meet unique business needs and achieve objectives.
• Know and apply data visualization principles consistently resulting in clear and accurate outcomes.
• Tailor communications (content focus, style, format, etc.) for different audiences as appropriate.
• Influence action and results, through clear writing, in an accessible way for a wide audience. Structure presentations around a clear narrative and is concise in what's included. Present clearly and engagingly and anticipates questions.
• Frame Expedia's most sophisticated business problems as an analytics problem and concrete set of analytical tasks.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's, Master's, PhD or Equivalent Experience; Mathematics, Science, Statistics or Technical degree preferred, otherwise relevant experience is applicable.
• Develop and drive significant and sustained change and performance improvement from data-driven insights in a number of different areas or contexts.
• Apply knowledge of intermediate SQL
• A high performing individual contributor who consistently applies - and sometimes enhances - the analytics capabilities, principles and playbooks to solve complex business issues and opportunities.
• Operate largely independently and mentors more junior colleagues.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them the tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground, so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a desire to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, VRBO®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.comTM, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

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.