A rare opportunity to develop and implement a new revenue management system for this well-known UK company. The position will involve creating a demand forecasting tool, and eventually a price and space optimiser. Candidates will need to be an expert in forecast and optimisation modelling and extremely comfortable with advanced mathematical and statistical concepts.

Key Duties:

  • Forecast methodology development
  • Optimisation process flow mapping
  • Optimisation algorithm development
  • Data analysis across multiple complex data sets
  • Statistical testing and scoring
  • Creation of segmentation groupings
  • Business requirement gathering
  • Methodology documentation

Experience/Qualifications:

  • Experience of self-developing forecasting techniques (Time Series, ARIMA, Bayesian etc) and able to document and hand-over to others for business deployment
  • Experience of optimisation methodologies and the ability to create complex algorithms that work in a business environment
  • Extensive business experience in optimisation development and business deployment in a commercial project led environment
  • Proven experience in the usage of statistical methodologies (significance testing, regression, multivariate analysis, discriminant analysis etc.)
  • Exposure to pricing and revenue management functions ideally within the travel or hospitality industry
  • Ability to summarise and present complex findings to a non-technical organisation
  • Ability to work without close supervision, self-starter essential
  • Comfortable delegating and motivating analyst staff
  • Post-graduate degree in Operational Research
  • High calibre user of statistical and optimisation tools (SPSS, SAS, R, Matlab, Minitab etc.)

Full job description is available at www.scanlonsearch.com




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