About Agoda 

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 3.6 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

THIS ROLE IS BASED IN LONDON, UK (not open for remote work) 

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Get to Know our Team: 

The role sits within Operations, Analytics and strategy team in the Supply department, where new business ideas, analysis and tests are incubated and scaled. This is a broad scoped role, suited to those with background in analytics or strategy, with a strong entrepreneurial mindset. You will be expected to perform opportunity sizing on new business opportunities, build high level business cases and work closely with business development teams to build out new features, analytical insights and functionalities.

We are seeking a Lead or Sr Lead, Analytics & Insights, to lead strategic and analytical initiatives that create both growth and efficiency for the region. In this role, you will work directly with multiple stakeholders, including regional leadership and various cross-functional departments to successfully implement key initiatives. You will impact Agoda's business through exploring new datasets and business opportunities, analyzing complex challenges, and improve the way we use and share our data.The Opportunity:

In this Role, you’ll get to: 

• General: This is a hands on ‘in the business’ role. To succeed you will enjoy rolling up your sleeves, working on complex analytical problems, and contributing to the market strategy.
• Experimentation: Define success, measure / validate experiments and help ingrain an experimental mindset within the teams.
• Data and Insights: Provide a macro-led business intelligence view to the organization to prevent missed opportunities and drive commercial behaviors, analyzing the impact of Supply actions and digging into data to come up with new ideas and opportunities to explore.
• Analytics & Alerts: Quantitative analysis, data mining and presentation of business metrics; identify drivers and build end-to-end proposals.
• Process Improvement: Work with all teams to drive inter- and intra- departmental efficiencies, optimize processes and prioritize data enhancements.
• Reporting: Build dashboards, internal / external reports and present key datasets to enable all team members to efficiently and effectively monitor performance and prioritize their efforts.
• Leadership: Grow towards leading a small team of experts to deliver the above functions and be excited by the challenge of mentoring more junior team members.

 What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• 6+ years of experience in analytics/data science/insights/strategy
• Expert domain of data analysis and data visualization tools and software such as Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python, R, or similar
• Strong experience in finding data insights and provide business recommendation to the business
• Excellent communicator with superior written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate resources.
• Strong program/project management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics or finance)
• Experience in articulating strategic issues and negotiating with senior-level stakeholders
• People management – track record of developing stars is a plus but not mandatory
• Ability and willingness to drive projects independently, working efficiently to deliver results rapidly and engaging the relevant stakeholders throughout the process

It’s Great if you Have:

• Master’s degree in statistics, economics, mathematics or similar discipline
• Experience in conducting A/B testing experimentation
• Travel industry / e-commerce / tech / consulting experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.

To all recruitment agencies: Agoda does not accept third party resumes. Please do not send resumes to our jobs alias, Agoda employees or any other organization location. Agoda is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.