Manager, Supply Process Automation Developer

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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 global hybrid work setup (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.

Manager, Supply Process Automation Developer

In this role, you will: 

• Use business acumen in combination with the knowledge to appropriately select the correct technique/design to answer business questions (eg. Pre/post, causal impact, multivariate, multi-armed bandit etc)

• Understand and explain the trade-offs for selecting simpler vs more complex methods

• Define and build data modelling (eg. linear and non-linear regression as well as using other modelling techniques such as clustering, logistic regression etc). Correctly interprets the output and iterates and improves the model.

• Provide guidance and coaching to other team members on statistical techniques

• Favour iterative delivery and work with stakeholders to refine requirements, agree on what is in scope for each project step, and evolve requirements based on learnings.

• Understand and synthesize different data sources and create basic data pipelines and workflows to support the model. Considers legal implications and seeks out clarification and solutions if applicable.

• Values reproducibility and creates shareable code and documentation to share with a wider team on tools like GitHub, IEX, and confluence.

• Create clear visualizations that support the data story and deepen the audience's understanding.

• Create relevant artifacts from the project such as technical documentation, presentations, and executive summaries, and share them in appropriate forums depending on the project and audience.

• Perform data quality checks, and query cost/performance optimisation.

• Write code in a shareable, efficient way that can be translated into a data pipeline or shared with peers.

• Automate repeated measurement and reporting tasks and build scalable dashboards to cover multiple scenarios (geo, web and apps, etc.). Trains and empowers stakeholders to pull data from automated dashboards or via scheduled reports. Empowers data democracy by providing training to stakeholders on the basic use of analytics tools and solutions.

Experience and qualifications: 

• PhD, Master or Bachelor (preference for Mathematics or Scientific degree) with 2-4 years of work experience OR 4+ years of experience in a comparable data analytics role with relevant experience.

• Demonstrable experience in delivering data-driven insights and recommendations that drove change or performance improvement for stakeholders through multiple projects using different analytics techniques.

• Experience delivering analytics projects to different business areas and displaying strong business acumen.

• Critical thinking and showing an inquisitive mind Statistics knowledge.

• SQL, Python, R or similar.

• Data visualisation skills for communicating results to stakeholders of different technical levels.

• Basic machine learning concepts / approaches knowledge.

• Intermediate-level ability to extract data from multiple data sources independently and combine into the required datasets for model building or analytics. (SJ - Not a basic but intermediate).

• Ability to comprehend probability, frequentist vs Bayesian statistics, and how to apply to business problems (eg. AB testing, log regression output). Understands difference between statistically significant test readout vs exploratory analysis.

• Ability to apply and comprehend statistical concepts like regression, ANOVA, AB testing etc and understand the difference between a statistically significant test readout vs exploratory analysis.

• Possess an intermediate 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).

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