Job Details
Hours: 37.5 Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid remote working, with 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: Wednesday, 2nd October 2024
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on the next exciting stage of our journey beyond our 40th anniversary, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo. This role will be focused on the development and implementation of automation solutions and analytics capabilities within our Pricing and Revenue Management (PRM) teams.
Crucially, this role will continuously evaluate processes and reporting, proactively looking for efficient methods, and utilising our technology with a desire to learn and implement new techniques and capabilities. This role will work with centralized Data Management to ensure accurate governance and standard processes across PRM and aid cross-departmental data integrity efforts alongside our joint venture partners.
The key responsibility of this role is turning strategic design into reality. To do this successfully, you’ll need to apply your creative problem-solving skills whilst ensuring attention to detail. You’ll need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects at once with a high volume of change.
Day to day
* Develop solutions that drive strategic improvements, utilising Azure Data Factory, Databricks and Power Automate. Using data engineering techniques to ensure efficient data processing, integration, and transformation.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify analytical needs, developing and maintaining visualizations, reports and datasets to provide insights to stakeholders as well as a user-friendly self-service capability.
* Implement a Data Science approach to modelling and analytics within PRM, finding opportunities to enhance methodologies, taking advantage of capabilities in Azure Databricks integration.
* Liaise with centralized Data Management, Commercial stakeholders, and external sources, to ensure data feeds in and out of PRM are consistent and fit for purpose.
* Contribute to the design and execution of testing and experimentation.
* Drive a continuous improvement and innovative culture across the department.
* Provide consultation on best practice, process streamlining, reporting and data usage, as well as carrying out BI training to members of PRM.
About you
Are you a creative problem solver, able to understand complex strategies and technical knowledge and develop them into workable solutions? Do you have the ability to present and communicate complex solutions in a structured manner to different technicality levels? Then this could be the role for you!
Alongside the above, we're looking for the following:
* Ability to offer consultation on initial strategy, influencing the delivery of the project to enhance value.
* Strong planning skills, structuring problems optimally to ensure quality in project delivery.
* Analytical approach with the ability to work out raw data and anticipate unwanted results from your own initiative.
* Experience in managing multiple priorities to strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
* Collaborative attitude to support multiple functions within the department.
* Experience with data visualisation and MS Power Platform (PowerBI, Tableau, Power Automate, Power Apps).
* Familiarity with data programming and data science techniques (Python, SQL, Databricks).
* Knowledge and working experience with the ETL process (Azure Data Factory, Alteryx).
Does the above sound like you? Then we'd love to hear from you!
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team at recruitment@fly.virgin.com feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.
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