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Data Scientist III, Planning and Insights

Expedia Group
London
4 days ago
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Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

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:

Are you passionate about data, analytics and predictive modelling? Do you want to be at the forefront of a truly customer-centric organization.

We are looking for a hardworking and intelligent individual to fill the Data Scientist III (Individual Contributor) role in the Planning and Insights Analytics team. You will provide powerful analyses and insights and develop business forecast models, capital allocation and strategic planning across Expedia Group brands. This is an exciting opportunity for a team-player who wants to be a central part of a truly customer focused team and a growing analytics function!

You will own the relationship with our stakeholders and help drive the expansion of forecast applications, spend allocation and scenario planning across the B2C organization. You will also have opportunities to research and develop new modelling techniques that incorporate business drivers as required. The successful individual will be able to work with minimal instruction and oversight, enjoy working on multiple tasks and projects at the same time and own projects end to end. Critical to your success in this role is a love of data (we love data!) - developing insightful analysis that you communicate in a clear and compelling way.

In this role, you will:

  • Apply advanced analytical techniques, statistical knowledge, machine learning, and big data handling skills to support our commercial stakeholders’ decision-making

  • Use your creativity and commercial acumen to translate business problems into structured analytical questions, and choose the most appropriate methodologies to answer these questions

  • Own the relationships with our Marketing stakeholders, and work autonomously to prioritise and execute on the most impactful analytics projects

  • Influence partners and senior leaders through communicating across various levels of the organization using clear and compelling storytelling and presentations

  • Prioritise multiple tasks and workstreams simultaneously and own projects end to end

Experience and qualifications:

  • Bachelor's, Master’s, PhD; Mathematics, Science, Statistics, Economics degree; or Equivalent related professional experience is applicable

  • 3+ years of experience in a similar analytical role

  • Strong Python and SQL skills with demonstrated experience to structure, transform and analyze data, and a willingness to learn new frameworks and languages required for the task

  • Prior experience in predictive modelling and developing forecast applications

  • Display a true passion for data and analytics as well as possessing a strong commercial awareness.

  • A high performing individual contributor who consistently applies – and often enhances – the analytical capabilities, principles and playbooks to solve complex business issues and opportunities

  • Develops and drives significant and sustained change and performance improvement from data driven insights in a number of different areas or contexts

  • Experience of developing, and delivering, presentations that help people understand the insight from sophisticated analytics

  • Ability to perform in a high-pressure, dynamic environment and be comfortable with a high level of ambiguity.

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If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the .

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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.

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