Commercial Analyst

CarTrawler is the leading B2B technology provider of the car rental and mobility solutions to the global travel industry. Our purpose is to drive successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivaled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer, and ride-hailing services.
CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, EasyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com, and Emirates. As a B2B company, we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.
For our people, they get to work in an indigenous Irish tech company, in healthy, high performing teams, solving interesting problems. 
The Trading Analytics Team are responsible for providing performance insights and data analytical solutions to the Trading team and wider CarTrawler business.    The individual will play a key role in unearthing insights and informing actions across their applicable Trading Squad. (A Trading Squad is a cross-functional and multi-disciplined team with a specific remit of the business for which they are responsible). The Analyst will be required to support the Commercial Manager (i.e., Squad Lead) in making key business decisions as well as ensuring business performance is understood, reported accurately, and contextualised for key stakeholders.
The role will require a proactive individual, with strong commercial acumen to identify and prioritise opportunities and drive profitable outcomes. The individual is part of the Trading Analytics team and is also a member of a Trading Squad. The ideal candidate will therefore be highly adaptable and a team player with the ability and desire to collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders. 

What are the responsibilities of a Commecial Analyst?

• Analyse trading performance and communicate the drivers of trading outcomes to key stakeholders; adapt and tailor communication style and depth to ensure stakeholder can interpret key messages.
• Conduct regular financial P&L performance “deep dives” on selected partner groups, delivering actionable insights for performance improvement.
• Develop scalable and automated reporting frameworks to enable channel and P&L owners to analyse trading performance and identify commercial trends.
• Ensure P&L performance trends are communicated, contextualised and opportunities for growth are identified (across pricing, digital merchandising, sale content, and digital marketing initiatives) and prioritised.
• Collaborate with the Trading Squad members to ensure opportunities for growth are identified, developed upon, and put into action across the business.

Top performing Commercial Analysts display the following:

• At least 2-3 years + experience in similar/relevant role.
• Third-level degree in IT/Mathematics/Statistics/Economics or related field.
• Experience working with large datasets, with strong data manipulation skills and practical experience using database technologies which could include Excel or SQL.
• Curiosity and passion about data and data visualisation
• Proven ability to work on one’s own initiative and bring projects and tasks to completion
• Ability to communicate complex findings in a succinct and clear manner to a non-specialist audience.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively cross-functionally and with external partners.
• Experience using data visualisation tools such as Tableau to create interactive dashboards for stakeholders would be beneficial
• Experience in a statistical programming language like R or Python would be advantageous

Some of Our Benefits Hybrid Working: Hybrid working at CarTrawler is a combination of office and remote working. Most of the time, people will have flexibility in terms of where they want to work.

Financial Wellbeing: All employees from day one, whatever their role, are entitled to share options as part of our unique equity scheme offering, we also have an annual performance-related bonus, pension, income protection & life assurance.
 Health: Premium VHI health insurance is provided for all team members, we have a dedicated team of Mental Health First Aiders, and an Employee Assistance Programme, “Friday Unplugged” – the last Friday of every month we have a half-day mental health break.
 Leave: 25 days annual leave & 2 company days, as we know life often takes over, as it should! For these instances we offer all eligible team members paid maternity, adoptive, paternity, parental, and marriage leave 
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