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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 The Team
The
Corporate Business Performance Analytics
team plays a pivotal role in driving data-driven decisions. We partner closely with commercial, finance, and product teams to evaluate performance, uncover insights, and identify opportunities that accelerate growth and efficiency.Our mission is to
translate data into business impact
— enabling leaders to make informed, timely, and strategic decisions that enhance both customer and supply outcomes.
What You’ll Do
As the data-oriented business partners of finance, the Business Performance Analytics team will be an integral part of the Brands Finance organization. This team owns the performance metrics for the organization and drives the growth of Expedia Group and the optimization of marketing investments.This individual provides finance support, analysis, and reporting. A leader committed to shared success and dedicated to excellence, offering immediate guidance to a compact team of junior analysts. Executes work on multiple well-defined projects with clear oversight from senior management, collaborating with senior leaders and relevant stakeholders.
Who You Are
- Masters or Bachelors (preferred for Mathematics or Scientific degree) with 3+ years of experience in data analytics with increasing responsibility
- Experience with SQL, Hadoop/Hive, R, Python and Tableau
- Exceptional data mining and quantitative analytic ability and hands-on data analytics experience
- Track record in driving a data driven culture across business units
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, and comfort presenting to everyone from entry-level employees to senior vice presidents
Relevant Experience
- Demonstrable experience in leading & delivering multiple projects with data-driven insights and recommendations that drove change or performance improvement for stakeholders
- Reviews the process of extracting data from multiple data sources and combining it into the required datasets for model building or analytics.
- Demonstrates awareness of intermediate supervised machine learning theory and techniques and displays a willingness to learn and apply to relevant projects and/or be a valuable partner to Machine Learning Data Science to validate and scale models for optimal business value
- Understand their teams need to collaborate with subject matter experts and stakeholders early in the process to clarify the business question, enhance the feature selection process, and select an output that is relevant to stakeholders.
- Uses business acumen in combination with the knowledge to appropriately guide teams in selecting the correct technique/design to answer business questions (eg. Pre/post, causal impact, multivariate, multi-armed bandit, etc)
- Good understanding of common data models, their underlying assumptions, the types of business questions they can best answer, and what data sources would best support the model (i.e. linear and logistic regression).
- Possesses an advanced understanding of the business domain and uses this to refine the question at the heart of the modelling project to drive model design decisions (i.e. model selection, feature engineering), and provide recommendations (model improvements, business changes, ab tests, further analysis etc)
- Demonstrates the capability of framing a complex business problem as an analytics problem and a concrete set of analytical tasks broken down into manageable chunks.
- Works with stakeholders and analytics peers to identify the right objective and propose solutions appropriate for the task and timeframe. Demonstrates iterative thinking and ability to identify next steps based on findings.
Accommodation requests
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 Accommodation Request.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 Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.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.
