Senior Pricing Analyst - Hotel

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan. 

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do “whatever makes them pink”. 

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. More than 1,700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Last minute is looking for a Senior Pricing Analyst – Hotel only who will directly report to our Head of Hotels business.

This role will:

• Define a market-leading pricing strategy for Hotels stand-alone product across lastminute.com group websites through in-depth economical and product analysis.
• Develope and implement dynamic pricing strategies and yield management tools considering all the various revenue streams and operational costs of the Hotels business to accelerate and optimize revenue growth.
• Work on A/B testing and data ingestion evaluation to continuously improve pricing strategy and corresponding impact on conversion and customer acquisition.
• Define, implement and continuously optimise our positioning and revenue on Hotel meta channels. 

Key Responsibilities

• Very vertical focus to grow multi-channel hotel business
• Be responsible for the budget
• Drive analytical strategy for Hotels business revenue optimisation
• In depth analysis of economic and product data
• Modelling of dynamic pricing strategy and evolution 
• Development of pricing tools together with product team
• Competitor and market data ingestion and analysis
• Continuous pricing A/B testing

Skills and Experience

Essentials

• 3+ year in hotel digital business (hotel chains, OTA’s)
• Proven track record in pricing and revenue management in Travel business. 
• Knowledge of meta hotel best practices to guide teams
• Excellent data extraction & analytical skills
• Fluency in English.
• Ability to influence decision-makers through presentation of analysis
• People management experience
• Great use of excel, and data extraction/visualisation tools

Desirable

• Success cases in Hotel meta and Hotel OTA yield management and growth.
• Previous experience in a management role (based on business impact, he/she will be called to create his/her own team)
• Any other language will be considered a plus

Abilities/qualities 

• Team management
• Analytical and quantitative approach 
• Problem solving and decision making skills and innovative thinking 
• High attention to detail and ability to effectively manage multiple projects at a time, successfully able to meet deadlines
• Proactivity and strategic approach

What we offer

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

• Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
• Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
• Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
• Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning 
• Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
• Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
• Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel
• Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
• Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
• Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
• Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave according to local laws