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Manager, Lodging Strategy and Analytics

Switzerland - Geneva

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Do you want to work in an elite analytics team that has access to cutting edge tools and technology? Are you looking for a diverse international function to work in? Are you looking to move into a business that offers a wide range of developing career paths for you? We need curious, data driven analytical thinkers with a passionate drive for learning and improvement to join our rapidly growing team.

With the growth of our team, we are looking for a new Lodging Strategy and Analytics Manager to work as part of the industry leading Analytics and Revenue Management (ARM) org. Expedia’s ARM group supports the lodging organization by analysing business trends, deriving insights, and guiding management’s focus based on findings.

The job requires a well-rounded individual who has experience of working with stakeholders on understanding the business and providing quantitative analysis and reporting to drive actions. The successful individual must be able to handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, establish priorities, maintain relationship with senior leadership, and own deliverables end to end. The individual must be able to work with minimal instruction and oversight and be able to lead delivery of high quality outputs in a dynamic work environment with overlapping deadlines within short time constraints.

Responsibilities Include:
Partner with leadership to understand business needs

• You will establish trust and a collaborative working relationship


• Represent ARM in meetings with stakeholders and partners (e.g., Product & Data Science teams) to drive projects from analytical concept until implementation in our systems


• Define clear problem statements from unstructured business asks


• Proactively communicate factors affecting performance to senior management

Proactively analyse information to help navigate the business 

• You will own analytics roadmap, evaluate opportunities and build business cases to ensure the success of global initiatives


• Perform deep-dive analysis and statistical tests to get to the bottom of performance drivers and provide recommendations for improvement and quantify results


• Navigate through multiple data sources, leverage big-data and convert raw data into actionable insights


• Design models to solve business problems and, where appropriate, manage integration of the insights into regular management reporting


• Use a range of analytical and statistical techniques to answer key questions from stakeholders


• Be aware of micro and macro-economic trends and their impact on the business


• Illustrate key business trends through effective data interpretation and visualization

End to end System and information flows 

• You will establish and maintain accurate and robust senior management reporting


• Create compelling presentations for stakeholders


• Work closely with other teams globally to assist the business decision making process by developing analytical models


• Take responsibility for system/process validation and user acceptance testing for your initiatives


• Partner with internal data teams to identify and resolve data integrity issues

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• You will have a Bachelors’ degree in a numerical discipline - Business administration, Economics, Operations Research (OR), Mathematics or Engineering preferred.


• 4 years + experience in an analytical role


• Background in travel and Internet industries strongly preferred, an understanding of Hotel and Airline analytics, Prior consulting experience is a plus


• Experience with managing cross-functional projects with stakeholders based in multiple countries and time-zones


• Ability to work with complex data sets, and combine data from multiple sources into a coherent analytical product


• Superior problem-solving skills, self-motivation and the capacity to work under pressure and tight deadlines


• Excellent written and oral communication skills; solid presentation and PowerPoint skills


• Knowledge of analytical tools, including Excel, database querying (SQL, Qubole), Tableau, Salesforce etc.


• High level of intellectual curiosity and focus on generating action-oriented business insights

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 to 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 hunger 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®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, 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.APPLY NOW