Director, Pricing & Analytics – Accommodations

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days a week in-office.

This job posting is for an existing, currently vacant position.

We’re a data-driven organization, which makes our Pricing, Analytics and Data Science teams the brains of our operation. On the cutting edge of customer and business analytics, they make sure all our decisions and innovations are based on the latest insights. 

Why this job’s a big deal:

Priceline is seeking a Director, Strategic Pricing and Analytics for our Accommodations business unit. This role will be responsible for executing and improving upon priceline's strategy for pricing and travel deal making. 

Our mission is to deliver the best travel deals available to our customers.  This role is central for us to fulfill this mission.

The ideal candidate for this role has prior pricing experience in an e-commerce or retail environment, with travel industry experience strongly preferred, and strong analytical skills with an excellent track record of execution. 

In this role you will get to:

• Lead a lean team of Senior Pricing Analysts to both execute and improve upon Priceline's strategy for pricing & competitive intelligence.  

• Partner with other pricing team leaders, as well as those within our Technology, Product and Data Science Teams to develop innovative solutions and techniques to ensure Priceline's pricing remains competitive and profitable.

• Strategize with the Sales and Competitive Intelligence Teams on ways we can be most competitive in the travel space.

• Partner with Marketing and Finance Teams to ensure our operating margins stay intact and paid demand channel ROIs are stable. 

• Maintain a steady cadence of designing and implementing A/B experiments that measure our customers’ price sensitivity and analyze results.

• Identify appropriate reports to support decision making, recommend and build enhancements to our pricing reporting infrastructure.

• Influence and challenge decisions made by the team through timely & insightful analysis and modeling.

Who you are:

• You bring strong analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills.

• You’re comfortable partnering closely with Data Scientists and can speak their language, while also bringing strong commercial acumen and an understanding of how the business operates.

• You have hands-on SQL experience, ideally with BigQuery or another relational database.

• You’ve built, enhanced, and maintained reports and dashboards using Tableau and/or Excel.

• You have experience working with Python (strongly preferred).

• You’ve applied modeling techniques and analytical methods to real business problems.

• You have a “can-do” mindset and a passion for analytics and data.

• You have strong communication skills, both written and oral. 

• You take responsibility for your results, truly “owning” your critical role.

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field with at least 10 years of experience in analytics, consulting, or technology; or an MBA or Master’s degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience.

• Experience in data science, market research, travel, and e-commerce is highly desirable.

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline:  Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. 

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. It’s therefore essential that you also meet our high standard of ethics, honesty, transparency and compliance.

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. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.

The salary range for this position is CAD $175,000 – $205,000.

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