Product Data Analyst

About the job

Welcome to awaze, europe's largest holiday vacation rentals group.

A family of iconic travel brands including Cottages.com, Hoseasons & Novasol. With over 1.5 million bookings each year, we're proud to offer our guests a choice of over 100,000 properties in our portfolio, in 25 countries across Europe.

🏡 Why join us?

Since 2021, we’ve built up a great team of engineers in the UK & Denmark (100+), responsible for solving the largest technology replatforming project ever in the travel industry. As we roll out our new core platform in 2024, it's a genuinely exciting time to join us as we continue to innovate, evolve and grow our platforms with one simple vision and aim: "to delight our owners and guests."

Do you want to join in the fun of transforming the travel industry?

Position: Product Data Analyst | OneSource team

🏡 What team will you be joining?

As we continue our journey to become a data first business, we're investing heavily in our data strategy as we look at new ways to support our business in driving better commercial and operational outcomes.

At the core of this strategy is the development of a new cross brand OneSource platform to unify analytics and reporting across our main brands, using modern cloud platforms including AWS, Snowflake, Matillion, Tableau and AtScale.

🏡 Day-to-day your role include the following:

• Ensure that the OneSource platform supports the business in delivering against our overall strategy and goals and deliver prioritised features and corresponding justification.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders (Revenue Management, Finance, Operations, Product and Marketing) to prioritise requirements to deliver new data assets for the group.
• Apply your extensive analytical knowledge on extremely large and complicated datasets to show where and how our processes can be improved.
• Generate new ideas and suggestions for continuous improvement of systems, processes and procedures to enhance our guest and owner experiences.
• Create epics and user stories that specify the features to be implemented.
• Look for new approaches to solve challenges and drive for continual improvement.
• Think about what the business needs to do to solve the challenge as well as the technology.
• Work as part of a product team to address business issues and put appropriate solutions in place.
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to the Data Services team and using user stories and acceptance tests and help the teams to break down more complex pieces of work / epics into smaller tasks.
• Identify opportunities to release incremental value.
• Ensure understanding and communication of requirements throughout the delivery
• Work with the other core product teams to understand the implications of the broader tech transformation on the source systems providing data for the warehouse.
• Be an active member of the wider tech community within Awaze.

🏡 Who are you?

You’re an experienced Business | Data Analyst that's not afraid to challenge the status quo to drive product and business value (seriously, we encourage it).

And you will offer:

• Experience in technology-focused businesses in a Business | Data Analyst role with familiarity working within a data engineering | analytics team.
• Strong SQL & Excel skills (including but not limited to) being comfortable sourcing data from databases, as well as analysing and interpreting the data in either Excel or via SQL.
• The ability to bring a commercial lens to bear when assessing data, both in terms of sense checking what the data says and also identifying any underlying data quality issues before they reach an end user.
• Research and have discovery skills including analysis, usage reporting, data modelling, and testing.
• Great stakeholder management skills, including experience in dealing with remote colleagues, across business areas and levels.
• Strong attention to detail, highly methodical mind-set, aptitude to propose solutions.
• Natural curiosity about how things work and confidence with technical details.
• Results and delivery focused approach with an eye for quality and reusability.

🏡 What will we offer you?

Upon joining, we’ll set out your journey with us with a personalised competency framework and we’ll give you the freedom to inform the best way of working to get the job done and help us shape the culture of our international teams.

We’ll also reward you with:

• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holidays (plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days)
• Holiday Discounts (18% to 20% discount across all AWAZE brands)
• Pension contribution scheme
• Private healthcare
• Personal training allowance via Sunlight
• 35 hour working week
• Hybrid working (2 days office based in Manchester)
• Meeting free lunch policy

🏡 Get in touch, we'd love to chat:

If you're interested in transforming the industry and reinventing how our technology powers everyday amazing holidays, please send your profile to jody.marks@awaze.com and let's chat today.