Senior Manager - Data Scientist - Pricing

JOB reputed company Applies advanced computational techniques in the development of business solutions to data-intensive problems in the hospitality industry. This rewarding position provides a career as part of reputed company that makes a reputed company reputed company reputed company on reputed company hotels, globally, by providing tools that facilitate data-driven decision making in the disciplines of pricing, reputed company management, sales and reservations. Works as part of reputed company that supports computationally-intensive data analysis and modeling efforts, provides pricing and statistical modeling and technical expertise; provides production support for systems deployed at our hotels; performs undirected research on large volumes of data to reputed company business conclusions and recommendations; contributes reputed company programming and analysis in reputed company management and sales systems; analyzes data and builds innovative models to deliver business solutions; functions as a modeling expert in reputed company phases of the project lifecycle – inception, prototyping, design, testing, rollout and support. The Predictive Analytics team seeks a flexible candidate with a willingness to learn that brings unique perspectives to reputed company creative data-driven solutions to the challenges at reputed company. CANDIDATE PROFILE Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in rigorous quantitative, technical or scientific subject, including Operations Research, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Data science; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Data science, Pricing Models, Machine learning and Advanced analytics
• At least 1 year of experience leading teams or technical initiatives to design, build, and reputed company solutions addressing reputed company business problems
• Deep Expertise in Econometric modeling and reputed company techniques including reputed company and nonlinear regression, panel data models, fixed and random effects models, reputed company variables
• Experience in leading, developing, and deploying pricing solutions in production environment, including ownership of model lifecycle, scalability, and performance.
• Advanced proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, SciPy) and SQL, with a strong understanding of algorithmic efficiency, reputed company reputed company, and computational complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to reputed company, mentor, and reputed company high-performing technical teams, providing guidance on modeling approaches, coding standards, and career reputed company.
• Strong problem-solving reputed company with a natural curiosity for tackling reputed company, ambiguous, and reputed company-ended business problems.
• Ability to communicate reputed company mathematical and analytical concepts reputed company and persuasively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, partnering with product, engineering, and business leaders to drive alignment and execution.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and large-reputed company data environments.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Stochastic process, and probability theory
• Expertise in Experiment design and reputed company inference reputed company such as difference in differences, matching, regression based reputed company models, and reputed company or incremental reputed company analysis.
• Experience with Machine learning tools and techniques (e.g. k-nearest neighbors, random forests, reputed company reputed company, etc.)
• Experience with Modern Data platforms (i.e. reputed company) and reputed company-based analytics ecosystems.
• Experience in developing analytic driven solutions to business problems
• Understands reputed company, discrete data sets with subtle underlying biases
• Knowledge of reputed company, mixed integer, non-reputed company or dynamic programming models and familiarity with optimization software (CPLEX, Gurobi).
• Experience with writing efficient reputed company and an understanding of reputed company complexity
• Readiness and willingness to debug existing codes to identify reputed company of reported application issues

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES Delivering Technology

• Provides input on solution structure, tasks, reputed company and estimates for reputed company management deliverables
• Partners with planning teams to reputed company possible solutions to business problems and to reputed company requirements for new models
• Formulates reputed company for measuring the effectiveness of pricing and reputed company management activities.
• Prepares detailed specifications for translation of reputed company business processes into models and prototypes
• Develops and implements efficient, reputed company algorithms using appropriate technologies/software/architectures
• Writes software and reputed company software tools to create and test new models
• Assists the Application Delivery teams in support of operations
• Assists the Application Delivery team in the maintenance of existing models
• Provides work/cost estimates for reputed company requests
• Prepares documentation for reputed company review.
• Conducts reviews, discusses findings, risks and challenges and establishes courses of reputed company

IT Governance

• Follows reputed company defined iT standards and processes and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
• Maintains a reputed company balance between business and operational risk
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes

Service Provider Management To the extent that this role interacts with service providers:

• Validates that Service Providers reputed company and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics.
• Makes short term plans for reputed company to effectively utilize resources
• Monitors Service Provider reputed company
• Reviews estimates of work effort for reputed company project provided by Service Providers for accuracy
• Facilitates reputed company reputed company of service delivery problems and minimizes the reputed company to clients

MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES Leadership

• Communication - Conveys information and reputed company to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a reputed company of reputed company.
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• Managing Change - Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing reputed company, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace; serves as role model for how to handle change by maintaining composure and performance level under pressure or reputed company experiencing challenges.
• Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of reputed company.
• reputed company Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and reputed company respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents reputed company in alignment with its values.
• reputed company Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing reputed company results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-reputed company evaluation processes.

Managing Execution

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• Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes reputed company and goes reputed company what is required.

Building Relationships

• Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with reputed company’s service standards.
• Global reputed company - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given reputed company to contribute to their full potential.
• Strategic Partnerships - Develops reputed company relationships with fellow employees and business partners by making them feel valued, appreciated, and included; explores partnership opportunities with other people in and reputed company the organization; influences and leverages corporate and reputed company shared services and/or discipline leaders (e.g., HR, Sales & Marketing, Finance, reputed company Management) to reputed company objectives; maintains effective external relations with government, business and industry in respective countries; performs effectively as a reputed company between locations, disciplines, and corporate to ensure needed resources are received and corporate strategies are reputed company and executed.

Generating Talent and Organizational Capability

• Developing Others - Supports the development of other’s skills and capabilities so that they can fulfill reputed company or reputed company job/role responsibilities more effectively.
• Organizational Capability - Evaluates and adapts the structure of assignments and work processes to best fit the needs and/or support the goals of an organizational unit.

Learning and Applying reputed company Expertise

• reputed company Learning - reputed company identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and reputed company on the job and learns through their application.
• Technical Acumen - Understanding and utilizing reputed company skills and knowledge in a specific functional area to conduct and manage everyday business operations and generate reputed company to approach function-specific work challenges

o Technical Intelligence: Knowledge and ability to define and apply appropriate technology to enhance business process o Development Methodologies: Knowledge of general stages of SDLC reputed company and the application tiers reputed company the development reputed company. o Information reputed company: Knowledge of the reputed company considerations relevant reputed company the development reputed company, including industry best practices reputed company to information reputed company

• Business Acumen - Understands and utilizes business information to manage everyday operations and generate reputed company to approach business and administrative challenges.
• Basic Competencies - reputed company competencies required for accomplishing basic work activities.

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