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Commercial Strategy Analyst

KAYAK

KAYAK

IT
Stamford, CT, USA
Posted on Wednesday, January 3, 2024

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car, cruise, or vacation package. We’re also transforming the in-travel experience with our app and new accommodation software. For more information, visit www.KAYAK.com.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a global network that includes OpenTable and KAYAK's portfolio of metasearch brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Many employees are dedicated to one brand, but we all have the benefit of using each others strengths and insights. Together, we're able to help people experience the world through dining and travel.

We are looking for a data-driven Analyst to join our Commercial Strategy team to support North America and Asia-Pacific. This is a business-centered position, but attention to detail and strong analytical skills are required.

This role will work closely with numerous teams within KAYAK and use data to identify, quantify and prioritize opportunities and develop strategies to drive revenue and user growth. This person should feel comfortable working with large amounts of data, be ambitious and proactive in analyzing, investigating and prioritizing information found across multiple data sets and sources.

This candidate must be based out of the Stamford, CT, Cambridge, MA or NYC area and will report to the Director of Commercial Strategy.

In this role, you will:

  • Monitor daily search and revenue performance: be on top of traffic changes, shifts in business metrics, product updates and A/B tests
  • Support the Commercial team by staying ahead of regional targets and flag concerns in order to achieve revenue goals
  • Understand and flag monetization fluctuations by closely monitoring performance and proactively identify opportunities for growth
  • Produce easy to read and insightful reports, graphs and tables for external consumption and help the commercial team understand the numbers
  • Partner with the Marketing team to monitor overall search trends and analyze the incremental impact of marketing campaigns
  • Work with the Commercial team on strategic partner accounts, acting as a consultant to analyze performance, find insights and recommend optimization strategies

Please apply if:

  • Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Business, Economics, IT, or similar
  • 3+ years relevant analytical experience. Travel/E-commerce experience is a plus
  • Excellent MS Excel, PowerPoint and G Suite (Google Sheets) knowledge
  • Experience in big data and strong working knowledge of SQL preferred
  • Familiarity with reporting systems and software visualization tools. Knowledge of Tableau, Cognos, Salesforce a plus
  • Strong organization and communication skills
  • Results-oriented, with high attention to detail, strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Self-starter and ability to learn
  • Team oriented and excited to take up new challenges

Benefits and Perks

  • 4 weeks paid vacation
  • Ability to work from almost anywhere
  • Day off on your birthday
  • Generous retirement plans
  • Awesome health, dental and vision insurance plans
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Headspace Subscription
  • No Meeting Fridays
  • Drinks, coffee, snacks, games etc.
  • Weekly catered lunches
  • Flexible hours
  • Regular team events/excursions
  • Universal Paid Parental leave

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. The range for this United States located role is $112,000 - $167,000.

In addition to a competitive base salary, roles are eligible for additional compensation and benefits including: annual cash bonus; health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave and benefits.

Diversity and Inclusion

We aspire to have a workplace that reflects all of the diverse communities we serve. We know that when we have diverse teams we produce more creative ideas, products, and better outcomes for our team members. OpenTable/KAYAK is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply for roles on our team. Whoever you are, just be you.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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