Data Analyst (For independent contractors)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Data Analyst to join our Data Science and Analytics team within Insurance. Our Trips business unit exists to give our customers the best, seamless experience across their whole trip whether they’re booking a flight, renting a car, hailing a taxi or visiting an attraction.

Role Overview

We are looking for a data analyst focused specifically in the Insurance business, which sells cover products to a multitude of travel products.

The role requires someone who can find business opportunities for growth from our data and uses data to influence and impact product development and roadmaps. A key area of focus will be working with product teams to ensure data is being leveraged to identify opportunities and risks and discover insights.

Consulting with business partners in problem-definition, setting success metrics and shaping the way forward through data insights. You will gain a deep understanding of business problems, embrace a customer lens, and tackle problems with timely analytics and translate analytics vision and strategy into execution. You will provide reliable, and actionable insights to partners using effective communication methods tailored for your audience.

In this role, you will be directly involved in enabling business improvements through your own insights/observations, you will own metrics and analytical/reporting improvements as well as being an influence on product and business goals. You’ll be part of an analytics team that supports analysis of all aspects of the insurance business, you’ll help us understand customer booking behaviors on multiple products & platforms ensuring the decisions we make about our customers are data driven and relentlessly improve the experience they have.

You’ll be working with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers, Researchers and UX and more within the Insurance area, as well as other key parts of the business to help us understand, interpret and solve some of the most interesting challenges at Booking.com.

The focus will be on delivering insights in many forms, whilst taking a systematic approach to creating useful data sets to enable advanced analysis as well as measuring success of initiatives, products and business changes.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop, design and implement Insurance focused dashboards which help to unlock and identify opportunities and alert and flag risks.

  
  

• Support team goals and initiatives through delivering impact and value through data.

  
  

• Automating processes to efficiently manage reporting requirements, and ensure timeliness of information

  
  

• Linking together disparate data sources to answer and address business questions.

  
  

• Support team on ad hoc analytical requests

  
  

• Support trading investigations by building alerting on key metrics

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Experience of A/B testing

  
  

• Strong experience of leveraging insights from disparate data sources.

  
  

• Strong analytical skills with commercial acumen, with the ability to identify opportunities & threats.

  
  

• Strong technical skills (Hadoop, R, SQL, Python, Excel)

  
  

• Power BI/Tableau

  
  

• Able to balance the need for accuracy and efficiency

  
  

• Able to distil & relay complex, technical information to a non-technical audience