Senior Analyst, Business Workforce Solutions

Expedia, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group is a global travel company seeking an analytics-focused professional to forecast demand and staffing, analyze data, and present insights to senior leaders. You will work with account management teams to understand workstreams, maintain data hygiene, and develop models for both short-term execution and long-term planning.

The role requires strong SQL and analytical tool experience (Excel, Tableau, Salesforce) and a degree or equivalent.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Strong analytical mindset with data-driven approach.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with account management teams to gain knowledge of workstreams and metrics.
• Develop forecast models for demand, workload and staffing based on historical data.
• Maintain data hygiene and adjust forecasts for process changes.
• Analyze data to identify trends and recommend productivity improvements.
• Present results in a structured, data-driven manner to non-technical audiences.
• Identify risks in staffing and implement mitigation plans.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Salesforce

Tableau

Python

R

SAS

SPSS

Matlab

Education

Degree or equivalent

Tools

Matlab

SAS

SPSS

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

This is a high impact and high visibility role with heavy interaction with senior leadership and

goals that directly impact the bottom line of the business. To be successful in this position you

will need to possess an entrepreneurial mindset and be able to operate with minimal guidance

while owning end-to-end deliverables. You will handle multiple tasks and projects

simultaneously, establish priorities, and drive delivery of high-quality outputs in a dynamic

work environment with overlapping deadlines and short time constraints.

What You Will Do

• Work collaboratively with account management teams to gain a profound knowledge of workstreams and performance metrics
• Develop and maintain demand, workload and staffing forecast models based on historical data to be used in short-term operational execution and long-term budget planning.
• Maintain historical data hygiene as well as proactively adjust forecast models to account for changes in business processes and metrics.
• Gather and analyze data to identify trends and/or patterns and make recommendations as appropriate to reduce workload and improve productivity for stakeholder teams.
• Monitor and track the results of recommendations as appropriate.
• Research and identify potential risks in staffing levels and develop and implement plans to aid the operation in avoiding or mitigating through the risks as needed.
• Utilize system reporting tools to analyze current business processes and to support continuous process improvements.
• Identify opportunities for improvement through data - setting targets, understanding drivers, assessing performance, and modelling scenarios.
• Present results back to the business in a structured, data-driven manner - simplifying complex concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Use a problem-solving approach that gets to the underlying business questions, using a variety of data sources and information.

Who You Are

• Technical skills - advanced SQL skills and competence in use of analytical tools including Excel, Salesforce, Tableau, etc. Experience with one or more of the statistical modeling languages/ toolboxes such as R, SAS, SPSS, Matlab, or Python is a plus.
• Analytical Mindset- a problem solving approach that gets to the underlying business questions, using a variety of data sources and information.
• Stakeholder Partnership - analytical ingenuity and leadership, coupled with demonstrated cross-functional partnership, comfortable creating strategic recommendations in a thoughtful yet concise manner, and obtaining organizational approval at senior levels.
• Effective Communicator - build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the project.
• Flexible approach - tailor expert knowledge to meet specific circumstance.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.

Accommodation requests

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About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

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Equal Opportunity

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.