In this Role, you’ll get to:
- General: This role is a blend of hands on ‘in the business’ and executive level ‘on the business’ work. To succeed you will enjoy rolling up your sleeves, leading a team and contributing to strategy.
- Project Delivery: Manage, standardize & validate the structure of business cases for product development, headcount, engineering resources, budgets, general strategic & roadmap prioritization.
- Experimentation: Define success, measure / validate experiments and help ingrain an experimental mindset within the teams.
- Forecasting and Insights: Provide a macro-led business intelligence view to the organization to prevent missed opportunities, surmount obstacles at all organizational levels and drive commercial behaviors.
- Analytics & Alerts: Quantitative analysis, data mining and presentation of business metrics; identify drivers and build an end-to-end communication framework based on business value, effort and urgency.
- Process Improvement: Work with all teams to drive inter- and intra- departmental efficiencies, optimize processes and prioritize system enhancements.
- Reporting: Build dashboards, internal / external reports and present key datasets to enable all team members to efficiently and effectively monitor performance and prioritize their efforts.
- Leadership: Lead a small team of experts to deliver the above functions and be excited by the challenge of mentoring team members across the chain and connectivity teams.
What you’ll Need to Succeed:
- 5+ years of leadership experience in analytics/data science/insights/strategy
- 2+ years’ experience leading analytics, operational, product or other technical teams
- Expert domain of data analysis and data visualization tools and software such as Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python, R, or similar
- Strong statistical modelling and machine learning knowledge
- Strong experience in finding data insights and provide business recommendation to the business
- Excellent communicator with superior written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate resources.
- Strong program/project management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics or finance)
- Experience in articulating strategic issues and negotiating with C-level executives – experience in leading strategy consulting projects a plus
- People management – track record of developing stars
- Ability and willingness to drive projects independently, working efficiently to deliver results rapidly and engaging the relevant stakeholders throughout the process
It’s Great if you Have:
- Master’s degree in statistics, economics, mathematics or similar discipline
- Experience in conducting A/B testing experimentation
- Travel industry / e-commerce / tech / consulting experience.
