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We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, experienced leader to join the Expedia Finance team as a Director of Business Analytics. In this critical global leadership role, you will be responsible for leading a team of managers and analyst to empower finance and marketing at Expedia. This is a great opportunity to join the surging travel industry and help drive the business forward while working on impactful and complex problems. If you are energized by the idea of delivering business outcomes by rolling up your sleeves, bringing teams together and making an impact, then youll be a great fit In this role, you will: Collaborate with business partners to answer key business questions - challenge their thinking and become a trusted business partner. Help the business prioritize analytical deliverables and manage their expectations. Perform exploratory analysis of large data sets. Derive tactical and strategic insights to improve business strategies and accelerate channel growth. Demonstrate strong analytical and statistical skills towards taking complex and unstructured business problems, wide variety of quantitative and qualitative data, and providing structured, hypothesis-driven and data-supported practical solutions. Have strong empirical and analytical background, with demonstrated ability to combine quantitative and qualitative findings in order to frame the right questions and measurable insights. Be a lateral problem solver, who constructively challenges the obvious answer in order to examine the underlying mechanism or phenomenon. Be comfortable in developing analytics vision and roadmap for the team, and foster innovation through continuous evolution of analytical frameworks and data solutions. Build a great team and support the Marketing Analytics Community Experience and qualifications: Bachelors degree in a technical field with 15+ years of relevant work experience (or relevant Masters degree/MBA with 13+ years experience), out of which 7-10 years are in a managerial role. Experience with analytics tools and methods (e.g., using BI tools and coding techniques to extract insights, experimentation frameworks like A/B testing, attribution models, measuring incrementality of business actions, statistical approaches for segmentation, classification, and prediction etc.). Prior experience with Gen AI tools will also be desirable. Proficiency with Advanced Excel is important. Knowledge of SQL, Apache Spark, Python, R (multiple preferred) is required to query, transform/compute and analyze the data. Additionally, track record in leading cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives in the analytics space, and delegating tasks and managing delivery across team is important. Prior experience in hiring, coaching, and developing individual contributors is necessary for this role. Ability to effectively influence, communicate and present cross-functionally with all levels of management internally and externally. Concise and engaging storytelling skills with Data visualization (Charts/Graphs) and PowerPoint. Expertise in proactively identifying broad business or product issues/opportunities and translating them into tactical projects and tasks that align with stakeholder priorities. Ability to speak with confidence and credibility to senior executives about the business value of analytics without being too technical, with data scientists and other analysts globally about analytics methodologies to answer questions, and with the Data Engineering/IT side of the organization about data access & integration. Strategic with proven demonstration of depth and breadth on multiple topics of interest in the business. The execution should be agile & efficient.
