Senior BI Analyst (Supply Analytics, Bangkok-based)

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation.

This role is based in Bangkok, Thailand (relocation provided).

About the Team

The Supply Analytics team is a group of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda’s accommodation partners and promote Agoda’s top and bottom-line growth. We design tailored business and product solutions with our partners and help them generate measurable value. Members of our team are empowered and supported to grow their market(s) or accounts. We develop win-win relationships and leverage Agoda’s unique accommodations portfolio and tech solutions to bring our partners the advantages they seek.

The team is responsible for developing and scaling a range of marketing solutions for accommodation partners focusing on growth, visibility, conversion, pricing recommendations and financial products, as well as advertising and display marketing solutions for businesses and travel organizations.

About the Role

The role sits within the Supply Analytics team under the Supply department, where new business ideas and partnership types are incubated and scaled. The right candidate will play a critical role in shaping the BI team’s overall strategy and will lead the execution of new business verticals/opportunities. This is a broad-scoped role, suited to those with a track record of leading enterprise-level BI functions and/or creating new and high-impact business verticals from scratch, from a consulting, sales, or business development background with a strong entrepreneurial mindset.

You will be expected to perform opportunity sizing on new business opportunities, build high-level business cases to justify your proposals, and work closely with Product teams to build out new features and functionalities prior to dealing directly with external partners to negotiate and close deals.

Responsibilities

• Translate internal briefs into analytical projects (including refining the initial brief, asking the ‘right questions’, working through potential hypotheses, and storyboarding the output).
• Use and analyze data from multiple large-scale data warehouses and present statistically strong analysis to a wide range of business stakeholders.
• Proactively identify opportunities for growth within supply and the wider business.
• Drive new analytical initiatives and projects aimed at improving organizational efficiency and shaping Agoda supply.
• Identify, support, and lead projects aimed at scaling up the way the Supply organization leverages data, insights, and intelligence.
• Automate manual operational processes and present back on time savings gained through modernization of business operations.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in analytics/data science/insights/strategy.
• Bachelor’s degree ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g., computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics, or finance).
• 3+ years of experience with BI & analytics tools (SQL, Tableau, Metabase, or PowerBI).
• Experience in conducting A/B testing experimentation (a plus).
• Experience in Python or R (a plus).
• A good understanding of statistical modeling knowledge or any machine learning technique knowledge is a plus (regression, logistic regression, random forest, etc.).
• Good stakeholder management experience. Comfortable presenting to senior leadership and C-suite.
• Strong experience in finding data insights and providing business recommendations.
• A hacker’s mindset – the ability to build simple but clever and elegant solutions to new problems within significant resource, operational, and time constraints through deep understanding of the business, creative problem solving, and a wide range of expertise in data, analytics, automation, programming, and prototyping.
• Excellent communicator with superior written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Data-driven in both decision making and performance measurement.
• Extreme comfort in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and coordinate resources.

Nice to Have

• Travel industry / e-commerce / tech / consulting experience.