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 our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you're ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

THIS ROLE IS BASED IN BANGKOK, THAILAND (RELOCATION PROVIDED)

Get to Know our Team:

The role sits within the Analytics team under Supply department, where new business ideas, and partnership types are incubated and scaled. This is a broad scoped role, suited to those with a track record of leading small analytics function 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.

We are seeking an Associate Director, Analytics & Insights, to lead strategic and operational initiatives that create both growth and efficiency for the Supply department. In this role, you will work directly with multiple stakeholders, including executive leadership and various cross-functional departments to successfully implement key initiatives. You will impact Agoda's business through exploring new business opportunities, analyzing complex scaling challenges, and improve existing operations.

The Opportunity:

In this Role, you'll get to:

General: This role is a blend of hands on in the business and executive level on the business work. To succeed you will enjoy rolling up your sleeves, leading a team and contributing to strategy.
Project Delivery: Manage, standardize & validate the structure of business cases for product development, headcount, engineering resources, budgets, general strategic & roadmap prioritization.
Experimentation: Define success, measure / validate experiments and help ingrain an experimental mindset within the teams.
Forecasting and Insights: Provide a macro-led business intelligence view to the organization to prevent missed opportunities, surmount obstacles at all organizational levels and drive commercial behaviors.
Analytics & Alerts: Quantitative analysis, data mining and presentation of business metrics; identify drivers and build an end-to-end communication framework based on business value, effort and urgency.
Process Improvement: Work with all teams to drive inter- and intra- departmental efficiencies, optimize processes and prioritize system 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: Lead a small team of experts to deliver the above functions and be excited by the challenge of mentoring team members.

What you'll Need to Succeed:

7+ years of leadership experience in analytics/data science/insights/strategy
4+ years experience leading analytics, operational, product or other technical teams
Expert domain of data analysis and data visualization tools and software such as Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python, R, or similar
Strong statistical modelling and machine learning knowledge
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 C-level executives – experience in leading strategy consulting projects a plus
People management – track record of developing stars
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.

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Associate Director, Supply Analytics (Bangkok-based, Relocation Benefits provided)